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After regularly updating crimmigration.com from January 2009 until November 2022, I have stopped doing so. I hope you continue to benefit from the blog as an archive. For up-to-date information about my work, visit ccgarciahernandez.com. – César

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Bulk of immigration prisoners commit basic offenses

Immigration crime is neither unusual nor new. Federal law threatens imprisonment for a host of migration activity. Impersonating a United States citizen can lead to three years behind bars. Smuggling people into the country is too, and if anyone dies in the process it can even result in execution. Far less newsworthy, entering the country without the correct permission is also criminalized. Since 1929, federal law has prohibited entering the United States without the government’s authorization. Doing that once can result in six months imprisonment. Entering the United States without [...]

Posted by César on December 4, 2018 on 4:00 am 1 Comment
Filed Under: FOIA, illegal entry, illegal reentry, imprisonment, statistics

Immigration crime prison population 2000-2016

Over the summer, the Trump administration made headlines worldwide when it decided to separate families arriving at the border while criminally prosecuting the parents. This was an especially cruel instance of using the bludgeon of criminal law to target migration. But it wasn’t the first time this happened. Across the Southwest, criminal prosecution of migration has been a common feature in federal courthouses for many years. Many of these individuals are sentenced to time-served, meaning they do little jail time beyond what they spend behind bars awaiting prosecution. Government data that [...]

Posted by César on October 2, 2018 on 4:00 am 1 Comment
Filed Under: commentaries, FOIA, illegal entry, illegal reentry, imprisonment, statistics

Under Trump, ICE No Longer Recommends Release for Immigrants in Detention

Kate Evans & Robert Koulish In summer 2018, the Trump administration ratcheted up its immigration enforcement and detention practices with new family separation and forced detention, as part of its “zero tolerance” strategy aimed at deterring asylum applicants from exercising their asylum rights under the 1980 Refugee Act. Part of its effort was to manipulate the immigration risk detention tool, known as the risk classification assessment, or RCA. The risk tool was designed during the Obama administration to reduce the arbitrary detention of immigrants by tailoring it to risk. A new [...]

Posted by César on July 26, 2018 on 4:00 am Leave a Comment
Filed Under: bond, commentaries, FOIA, guest blogger, imprisonment, mandatory detention

Immigration prison population since 1990s

Immigration imprisonment is a common feature of the United States legal system’s regulation of migration. On the civil side, ICE’s routine confinement of people suspected of violating immigration law is well-known. Often overlooked, however, are ICE’s partners on the criminal end of the immigration imprisonment spectrum. Though most immigration law violations are civil infractions that result, at most, in removal from the United States, some features of federal immigration law are undeniably criminal offenses. Indeed, in recent years, prosecutions for immigration offense now constitute the [...]

Posted by César on September 19, 2017 on 4:00 am 3 Comments
Filed Under: FOIA, illegal entry, illegal reentry, imprisonment, statistics

Bipartisan Immigration Imprisonment

Top Obama administration officials have made much of their concern about the country’s outsized prison population. In 2015, President Obama famously visited a federal penitentiary, the first sitting president to ever do so. In 2013, then-Attorney General Eric Holder championed sentencing reforms targeting low-level drug offenders. And Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates recently announced that the Justice Department would substantially reduce its reliance on private prison operators. But at the same time, the Obama administration has arrested and imprisoned a historically unprecedented [...]

Posted by César on November 1, 2016 on 4:00 am Leave a Comment
Filed Under: border militarization, commentaries, FOIA, illegal entry, illegal reentry, imprisonment, statistics

DHS asks for more detention beds, alternatives to detention, prosecutors, & drones

[While all of the information below is accurate regarding the Obama Administration's FY 2016 budget request, it turns out we're already in 2016. I should have written about the FY 2017 budget request (and meant to), but in a late-night blogging oversight I instead wrote about year-old material. My apologies. I'll try to get to the FY 17 budget request next week. I'll leave the FY 16 analysis up as a comparison.] In the last budget request he will make to Congress, President Obama hopes to boost the Department of Homeland Security’s detention network, increase the number of people supervised [...]

Posted by César on February 11, 2016 on 4:00 am Leave a Comment
Filed Under: alternatives to detention, FOIA, imprisonment, proposed legislation

ICE’s Failure and Complicity in Immigration Detention Inspections

By Thamys Gaertner In October, the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC), a leading advocacy group based in Chicago, released a detailed report on immigration detention center contracts that illustrates just how inadequate the ICE detention facility inspections are after promises and attempts by the Obama administration to improve the oversight process. President Obama established the Office of Detention Oversight (ODO) within ICE to inspect immigration detention facilities and investigate the deaths of individuals in ICE custody. Despite these efforts, the immigration detention [...]

Posted by César on January 21, 2016 on 4:00 am Leave a Comment
Filed Under: FOIA, guest blogger, imprisonment

Vt. Superior Ct: Private prison corporation is subject to state open records law

In another of a string of successful challenges under state law, the Vermont Superior Court announced the private prison company Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) is subject to the state’s Access to Public Records Act. Prison Legal News v. Corrections Corporation of America, No. 332-5-13 Wncv, slip op. (Vt. Sup. Ct. Jan. 21, 2015). This case arose from an attempt by Prison Legal News, an indefatigable news outlet, to obtain records about sexual assault claims brought by two inmates against prison officials. Specifically, PLN sought the settlement agreements that ended the sexual [...]

Posted by César on February 10, 2015 on 4:00 am Leave a Comment
Filed Under: CCA/CoreCivic, FOIA, imprisonment, Vermont state court

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