In line with what we heard at the National Immigration Law Conference Last week, John Morton, the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said the deportation program would continue to expand as planned in order to be operating nationwide by 2013, despite criticism from many police chiefs and from the…
This year the American Immigration Lawyers Association National conference is being held in San Diego. Just a few blocks from our down town office, you can see thousands of Immigration lawyers gather to socialize, learn and advance our profession. This morning, ICE head John Morton, opened with an discussion about…
ICE officials are not happy this morning. Illegal immigrants arrested for petty crimes won’t be held in jail longer than necessary in San Francisco, even if federal immigration agents may want them detained for possible deportation. Instead, starting Wednesday, deputies will treat those eligible for release just like U.S. citizens:…
CPB released a report on 5/19/11 of statistics on U.S. Border Patrol’s total apprehensions of undocumented individuals by fiscal year, from FY1999 through FY2010. The report also includes a breakdown of such apprehensions from Mexico, and from countries other than Mexico. * U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehended 463,382 individuals smuggled…
Arizona will appeal directly to the US Supreme Court in a bid to overturn an injunction blocking key parts of the state’s controversial immigration law, state officials announced today. Gov. Jan Brewer said she and Attorney General Tom Horne had decided to take the case directly to the nation’s highest…
Great story, another example how the illegal immigration debate is now a big part of our culture. In 1993, when I was 14, I became a regular on “Sesame Street.” The show usually liked to have a teenager on, so that was me. My character had my same name, Carlo,…
What do you make of this? Thousands of immigrants from India have crossed into the United States illegally at the southern tip of Texas in the last year, part of a mysterious and rapidly growing human-smuggling pipeline that is backing up court dockets, filling detention centers and triggering investigations. The…
Tough days ahead for employers. Chipotle Mexican Grill has fired a substantial number of the 1,200 employees at its 50 Minnesota restaurants after a federal immigration audit found some were illegal workers. The circumstances of the firings sparked a protest by several dozen people. As Greg Nammacher, secretary-treasurer of the…
According to a recent NPR story, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) wastes resources by targeting the wrong people for deportation. The study shows immigration judges are rejecting an increasing number if ICE’s deportation requests. The study, by a clearinghouse called TRAC, at Syracuse University, says immigration judges turned down one…
We are informed by AILA and the American Civil Liberties Union that there has been a relatively large-scale ICE enforcement operation conducted in the past 24 hours in relations to a bakery in Otay Mesa. There have been multiple search warrants executed and many arrests–with some entire families having been…