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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

Scholars Sidebar: Due Process & Immigrant Detainee Prison Transfers

I’m finally making time to start a project long in waiting—Scholars Sidebar, a (hopefully) regular focus on scholarly writings of special relevance to crimmigrationistas. And, in admittedly sin verguenza style, I’m starting with my latest article—a hot-off-the-press piece from the Berkeley La Raza Law Journal titled Due Process and Immigrant Detainee Prison Transfers: Moving LPRs to Isolated Prisons Violates Their Right to Counsel, 20 Berkeley La Raza L.J. 17 (2011). I argue that moving LPRs in immigration detention to prisons located in isolated locations (as most are) violates their Fifth [...]

Report: Administrative steps Obama can take immediately

The Migration Policy Institute released a report detailing six administrative measures that the Obama Administration could take immediately to create a more just immigration law scheme. Donald M. Kerwin, Doris Meisner, and Margie McHugh, Executive Action on Immigration: Six Ways to Make the System Work Better (March 2011). Four of their suggestions directly implicate crimmigration: ·     process unlawful presence waivers (I-601 waiver) from the United States, ·     coordinate prosecutorial priorities across the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice in light of Director [...]