VICE Offers A True Epic of Deportation to Haiti
Illustration Credit: Paul Moreno The ongoing debates over United States immigration and refugee policy is bringing many personal stories into the spotlight, mostly featuring immediate concerns. But...
View ArticleReport: Half of Californians Worry Somebody They Know Will Be Deported
A new report by the Capital & Main group, published at Newsweek, outlines how deeply the immigration and deportation issues are felt in California. The report also notes that”… fifty-one percent of...
View ArticleBoston Globe Deep-Dives Into Immigration Court Delays
Photo Credit: Boston Globe Report, Pat Greenhouse/Staff / File 2015 Citing government studies, The Boston Glove is reporting that the immigration court “logjam” has more than doubled over the past...
View ArticleIn Texas, That ‘Other’ Supreme Court Immigration Ruling Looms Large
A U.S. border patrol agent looks over the Rio Grande at the border between the United States and Mexico, in Roma, Texas. The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that a U.S. border patrol officer accused of...
View ArticleMassachusetts’ Top Court Nixes Immigration ‘Holds’
Photo Credit: The badge of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Fugitive Operations team is seen in Santa Ana, California, U.S., May 11, 2017. Lucy Nicholson/File Photo The top...
View ArticleSoCal Public Radio Report Outlines Immigration Court Issues
Ana Hernández (L )with her 15-year-old daughter Mariela Michell Beltrán-Hernandez outside the immigration court in Los Angeles. Dan Tuffs for KPCC. A new Southern California Public Radio report...
View ArticleTrump’s Election Boosting Efforts For ‘Civil Gideon’ Style Reform
Photo Credit: LA Times video clip 1/3/2017 One impact of the pending Trump administration is already being felt as some states and cities are preparing funds to fight deportation. While it’s only one...
View ArticleCM Publisher Makes Case For Bi-Partisian Fix on Immigration Court
Sara Warner, Founding Publisher of the National Courts Monitor & California Courts Monitor Courts Monitor Publisher Sara Warner, in a Huffington Post blog, makes her case that fixing the swamped...
View ArticleWith Trump’s DACA Decision, A Look At Context
Tomas Martinez, with GLAHR, a grass roots organization from Atlanta, chants to excite the crowd in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Monday, April 18, 2016. Hundreds gathered in...
View ArticleWith Trump’s DACA Decision, A Look At Context
Tomas Martinez, with GLAHR, a grass roots organization from Atlanta, chants to excite the crowd in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Monday, April 18, 2016. Hundreds gathered in...
View ArticleACLU alleges abuse of children by Customs and Border Protection
Immigrant children who crossed the border suffered abuse and neglect from federal officials, according to a report released May 23 by the ACLU’s Border Litigation Project in partnership with the...
View ArticleTrump administration cites success in migrant-family reunification effort,...
Photo Credit: Ivan Pierre Aguirre/For The Washington Post as reported on 7/28/18. By Thursday, July 26, when a court-ordered deadline loomed for the Trump administration to reunite hundreds of migrant...
View Article‘Dreamers’ could see fate resolved by Supremes
Photo Credit: Julián Aguilar/The Texas Tribune as reported in The Texas Tribune on 7/31/18. The future of DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, will become clearer as federal courts...
View ArticleDACA program, upheld by 9th Circuit, faces its day in Supreme Court
Photo Credit: Darin Moriki/Bay Area News Group as reported by The Mercury News, 11/8/18. The subject of continued court battles, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program could see its fate...
View ArticleDeportation order for 11-year-old draws attention to courts’ woes
Laura Maradiaga-Alvarado, 11, was ordered deported without her family. Photo credit: Fiel Houston as reported by NBC News. The near-deportation of a solitary 11-year-old child earlier this year...
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