By Brian Figeroux, Esq. | Editorial credit: fuadstephan / shutterstock.com Traveling with pending criminal cases or past convictions presents significant risks for green card holders. Introduction F...
CeBONDS One Year After its Implementation
By Raul Pinto & Laila Khan | Immigration Impact Approximately one year ago, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) launched Cash Electronic Bonds (CeBONDS), a web portal with the stated in...
Differences in State Sunshine Laws Can Threaten Transparency Around Immigration Detention and Enforcement
By Raul Pinto | Immigration Impact The main way in which the public can access information about what the federal government is doing is through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). However, laws th...
Trinidad and Tobago Migrant Found Dead After 4 Years in ICE Detention
Editorial credit: Grossinger / Shutterstock.com By Sunita Sohrabji | Ethnic Media Services More than 160 detained migrants have embarked on a hunger strike at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma,...
States Lead the Way in Banning Immigration Detention Centers
San Diego, CA / USA – November 3, 2019: Sign for privately owned Core Civic Detention Center in Otay Mesa, where San Diego County’s illegal immigrants are held as they go through the legal...
This Is Pretty Simple, Mr. President: Don’t Restart Family Detention
DETROIT, MICHIGAN – JUNE 30, 2018: An activist in Detroit holds a protest sign that says “Stop Separating Families.” (Shutterstock) By Dara Lind, Immigration Impact The Biden adminis...
Investigation Confirms Immigrant Women Held by ICE Underwent Illegal Medical Procedures at Georgia Facility
By Linda Nwoke, A Journal Exclusive In September 2020, the news broke on a class-action lawsuit filed by former detainees at the Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Georgia, against several parti...
Immigrant Bail Bond Industry Is ‘Wild West,’ State Lawmakers Say
Members of Black Lives Matter protest outside Federal Building to denounce the segregationist immigration policies of the Biden administration, Tuesday, Step. 21, 2021 in Los Angeles. (Shutterstock) B...
COVID-19 Rates in ICE Detention are at Record Highs. Advocates are Demanding an Investigation.
New York City – July 12, 2019: People taking part in the “Lights4Liberty” protests against President Trump’s planned ICE raids against immigrants and the detention centers alon...
U.S. Citizen Sues After Month-Long Immigration Detention
By AP An American man filed a lawsuit alleging the U.S. government Monday held him for more than a month in immigration detention even though he was a U.S. citizen. Brian Bukle, 61, sued in federal co...