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Migrating to Prison, one year later

After arriving in the United States in October 2015 with his mother Wendy hoping to find safe harbor, one-year-old Diego was quickly moved to an immigration prison in Pennsylvania. Six hundred fifty days later, Diego and Wendy were still there. “Diego’s situation is alarming, but it’s not unique,” I wrote in Migrating to Prison: America’s Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants. Less than two months from Inauguration Day, change is in the air. Just as winter’s bareness recently overtook fall’s bright colors, Biden’s calm humanity will soon replace Trump’s selfish abrasiveness. One year after [...]

Posted by César on December 3, 2020 on 4:00 am Leave a Comment
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With Biden returning to White House, private prison stock falls

As the outcome of Tuesday’s presidential election began pointing toward a Biden-Harris administration, private prison companies took a financial hit. Over a few days, CoreCivic and GEO Group, the two largest private prison companies in the United States, saw their stock prices drop substantially. Both companies had benefited from the Trump administration’s hard-line immigration policies. Noticias Telemundo. November 7, 2020. In just a few days, though, investors seem to have grown concerned about the future of the private prison industry under a Biden presidency. From November 3 to [...]

Posted by César on November 7, 2020 on 4:54 pm 1 Comment
Filed Under: CCA/CoreCivic, GEO Group, imprisonment, Uncategorized

Justice Dept pushes Supreme Court to Imperil Families

By Manuel D. Vargas Against the backdrop of an unprecedented global pandemic endangering the health and well-being of families across the nation and the world, the Supreme Court will hear argument on October 14 in Pereida v. Barr,an immigration case in which Justice Department lawyers are taking an aggressive position that, if adopted by the Court, would further imperil families with immigrant members. The stakes in the Pereida case are high, now more than ever. The petitioner, Clemente Avelino Pereida, has lived in the United States with his family for twenty-five years, working and [...]

Posted by César on October 12, 2020 on 4:00 am Leave a Comment
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Scholar Strike – Race, Immigration, Imprisonment

I am a lawyer by training, an academic by trade, and an intellectual by calling. For years I have devoted myself to understanding and challenging immigration policing in the United States. As part of #ScholarStrike, I'm sharing a lecture I delivered in 2015 at the University of Denver linking race, immigration, and imprisonment. May the story that I told in 2015 one day be nothing more than a nightmare from which we have awaken. [...]

Posted by César on September 8, 2020 on 9:59 am Leave a Comment
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Defund Police, Limit ICE

By the time Antonio Arceo answered a call from his wife’s cell phone and heard a stranger’s voice asking if he knew Roxana García, a simple run-in with the police was plunging their family into a nightmare. The stranger was a sheriff’s deputy who had stopped García for speeding, then arrested her for not carrying a license. She spent one night at a county jail about an hour west of Chicago, then federal immigration officers took her. Soon García would be deported. What began as an ordinary run-in with local cops ended in a family’s separation. Every day, local police are the entry point [...]

Posted by César on August 27, 2020 on 4:00 am Leave a Comment
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Beyond borders

Last week, I moderated Beyond Borders, a talk hosted by The Biennial of the Americas. The conversation focused on migration, the fluidity of borders, and the people who cross them. Coffee Chat: Beyond Borders from Biennial of the Americas on Vimeo. I was joined by Patricia Kumbakisaka, Tania Chairez, and Maria G. Aguilar Correa. Robin Swanhuyser, Program Director for the Biennial, organized it. [...]

Posted by César on July 20, 2020 on 4:00 am Leave a Comment
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ICE family prison population hits lowest point in years

In the midst of the pandemic, ICE has reduced its family immigration prison population to the lowest level since at least 2016. The agency’s three prisons where parents are confined with their children collectively held 369 people, on average, in May of this year. That’s a drop of over 2,100 people per day from the Trump administration’s peak in May 2018. Data I’ve obtained using Freedom of Information Act requests shows a steady downward trajectory for the nation’s family immigration prisons. When President Trump entered the White House in January 2017, there were almost 1,800 people held [...]

Posted by César on July 9, 2020 on 4:00 am 1 Comment
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ICE holds migrants for longer in pandemic

In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, ICE is holding migrants in its prison system for longer periods. Last month, migrants spent almost two months longer in ICE prisons than one year earlier. By comparing ICE data on average length of stay, I’m able to consider an important feature of immigration imprisonment across multiple years. Using Freedom of Information Act requests, I’ve previously learned that in June 2018 migrants spent, on average, 36.0 days inside ICE prisons. In June 2019, they spent roughly the same amount of time there: 37.8 days. But in June 2020, the average length of [...]

Posted by César on July 7, 2020 on 4:00 am Leave a Comment
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