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House Democrats Take Aim at the Nation’s Immigration Courts

Preston Huennekens — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 18:57:01 +0000

House Democrats are taking aim at the Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR), which is the immigration court system of the United States. EOIR is an agency within the Department of Justice, making it unique in that it is not an “independent” Article III court, but instead a court system within the executive branch in [...]

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Mental Disorders: Criminal Aliens’ Next Deportation Dodge?

Bob Dane — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 16:16:26 +0000

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland is seeking to block removals of criminal aliens on mental health grounds – a dodgy move that circumvents the Administrative Procedure Act. Deportations of criminal aliens have tumbled to historic lows as Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, evidently on the same page as Garland, issued a memo directing U.S. Immigration [...]

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Did the Justice Department Punish Microsoft for Prioritizing American Workers?

Preston Huennekens — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 09:37:02 +0000

Microsoft settled with the Department of Justice (DOJ) regarding claims that the company discriminated against non-citizens during its hiring practices. The Justice Department claimed that Microsoft “discriminated against non-U.S. citizens based on their citizenship status during the early stages of Microsoft’s hiring process by asking them for unnecessary, specific immigration documents to prove they could [...]

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Criminal Immigration Prosecutions Drop at Southern Border

Jason Pena — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 19:50:18 +0000

The United States has been facing an unprecedented level of illegal crossings along the Southwest border. As the number of unauthorized entries continues to climb, it would seem that there should be a proportional increase in the number of individuals being charged with immigration-related crimes. But that hasn’t been the case. The Transactional Records Access [...]

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Are Deportations to Haiti Merely Flights of Fancy?

Bob Dane — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 18:23:25 +0000

As President Joe Biden begins to deport Haitian migrants out of Texas, will he take the next logical step and defend a federal law that makes it a felony for removed aliens to return to the U.S.? Before the mass incursion hit Del Rio, a federal district judge in Nevada struck down a section of [...]

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Nevada Judge Rules Illegal Re-Entry Law as Unconstitutional

Preston Huennekens — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 18:02:14 +0000

A judge in Nevada ruled on August 18 that the current law addressing illegal re-entry violates the Constitution’s Fifth Amendment guaranteeing equal protection under the law. This decision could shake the foundations of immigration enforcement in the United States. In her decision, U.S. District Judge Miranda Du, an Obama appointee, wrote that Congress created 8 [...]

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