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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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The Great Writ’s Elusive Promise

By Mary Holper In two recent cases, Reid v. Donelan and Brito v. Barr, a federal court in Massachusetts limited ICE’s power to detain people. But by requiring detained immigrants to file habeas corpus petitions to get a bond hearing in immigration court, Chief Judge Saris of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts undercut the strength of her own clear-sighted analysis. Reid and Brito are both class actions challenging immigration detention. For Reid class members, they must file a habeas corpus petition arguing that their detention under a 1996 mandatory detention statute, [...]

Posted by César on January 21, 2020 on 4:00 am Leave a Comment
Filed Under: bond, burden, guest blogger, habeas, imprisonment, mandatory detention, U.S. District Courts

Supreme Court again tackles immigration preemption

By Kim Langona Today, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments to decide whether federal immigration law bars states from using certain work-related information in a criminal prosecution. In Kansas v. Garcia, No. 17-834, the Court will decide two questions. First, whether the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA) expressly preempts states from prosecuting individuals using any information entered on or appended to the federal Form I-9 even though that information also appears in documents unrelated to verification of work authorization (state tax forms, leases, and credit [...]

Posted by César on October 16, 2019 on 4:00 am Leave a Comment
Filed Under: guest blogger, preemption, Supremacy Clause

BIA rejects retroactive application of California sentencing change

By Kim Langona In Matter of Velasquez-Rios, issued on October 4, 2018, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA or the Board) concluded that federal law, rather than state law, must be used to determine the immigration consequences of a state conviction. 27 I&N Dec. 470, 474 (BIA 2018). Thus, a 2014 California legislative enactment that “retroactively lowered the maximum possible sentence” for a state conviction “from 365 days to 364 days, does not affect the applicability of section 237(a)(2)(A)(i)(II) of [the Immigration and Nationality Act] to a past conviction for a crime involving [...]

Posted by César on January 29, 2019 on 4:00 am Leave a Comment
Filed Under: Board of Immigration Appeals, crime involving moral turpitude, guest blogger, local immigration policing, sentence

Oregon lawsuit challenges state, local participation in immigration enforcement

By Christopher N. Lasch and Mark Fleming  On Thursday, a state trial court judge in Wasco County, Oregon (of Wild, Wild Country renown) will hear summary judgment arguments in Stovall, et. al. v. Northern Oregon Corrections dba NORCOR, No. 17-CV-31082 (Or. Cir. Ct.). At the heart of the lawsuit is a contract known as an “Intergovernmental Services Agreement” (IGSA) between NORCOR, a four-county public prison system, and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency. Under the IGSA, NORCOR jails people for ICE who are in civil immigration proceedings. The question for the trial court [...]

Posted by César on January 9, 2019 on 11:49 am Leave a Comment
Filed Under: detainer, guest blogger, imprisonment, local immigration policing, Oregon state court, sanctuary, state court

Risk assessment technology in migration control: tools for more objective decision-making?

By Tim Dekkers, Maartje van der Woude & Robert Koulish Migration control has seen an influx of information technologies in order to control mobilities. The traditional means of securing borders with walls, gates and border guards are not considered to be sufficient anymore or, as is the case at the internal borders of the European Union, legislation prevents the implementation of such measures. This poses a problem. Migration is increasingly viewed as a security issue and migrants as security threats, but freedom of movement benefits trade and tourism resulting in economic growth. EU [...]

Posted by César on September 19, 2018 on 4:00 am Leave a Comment
Filed Under: Europe, guest blogger

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

Undercutting Naturalization

By Patricia M. Corrales I joined the INS, then part of the Department of Justice, in March of 1995. Within weeks of becoming a trial attorney, my boss and mentor, assigned me a very unique case representing the agency in a federal case involving the naturalization of Filipino war veterans. Some Filipino nationals, during World War II, had shown their loyalty to this country by serving in the Armed Forces of the United States, and were promised naturalization. When some of these Filipino war veterans filed petitions for naturalization, INS denied their petitions claiming their names could [...]

Posted by César on July 18, 2018 on 12:30 am Leave a Comment
Filed Under: citizenship, commentaries, guest blogger

Family Separation and Reunification

By Anita Ortiz Maddali There has been widespread public outcry following the administration’s “Zero Tolerance” policy, which called for criminal prosecution of parents crossing the border without proper documentation and forced separation from their children.  The President recently issued an Executive Order ending the separation policy.  Now, parents will be detained with their children. But what about the 2000 plus children who have already been separated because of the zero tolerance policy?  How will they be reunited with their parents?   Initially, and, understandably, from an outside [...]

Posted by César on July 5, 2018 on 12:30 am Leave a Comment
Filed Under: guest blogger, imprisonment, Trump executive orders, U.S. District Courts

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