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By Pablo Mino March 4, 2018 While immigration activists have focused on the implications of ending DACA and its political, legal and humanitarian consequences, scholars at a Duke panel Friday cautioned that the DACA concerns were part of a larger, troubling move against immigrants who are long-time residents of the United States. The symposium organized by the Center of Latin …
By Maryam Saleh March 4, 2018 For a brief moment in December 2017, the international spotlight shined on the case of 92 deportees who were on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement-chartered flight to Somalia. Most such flights unload their human cargo once they land, but this flight, for logistical reasons, returned home — and brought witnesses back with it. The Somalis …
By Daniel Shoer Roth January 26, 2018 The anti-immigrant rhetoric and some decisions of the Donald Trump government have revived the fear of immigration raids and mass deportations in the United States. Recently, agents of the Office of Immigration and Customs (ICE) raided a dozens of 7-Eleven stores nationwide on suspicion of hiring undocumented immigrants. And in South Florida, U.S. …
By Jacqueline Charles January 17, 2018 The Trump administration has slapped Haiti again. As of Thursday, Haitian farmers and other laborers seeking to come to the United States as temporary, seasonal workers under the federal H-2A and H-2B guest worker program, will no longer be eligible. The temporary workers’ visa has for decades allowed hundreds of U.S. farmers, hoteliers and other …
By Kevin Conlon, Kaylee Hartung and Ray Sanchez January 13, 2018. On a week during which Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood remembered thousands of Haitian earthquake victims, racially tinged remarks attributed to America’s President brought some to tears. “I felt so outraged … I cried,” Farah Larrieux said. “This is the real face of Donald Trump — the face of hate, racism.” Trump …
By: Celia Ampel Somalis who allege they were beaten on a deportation flight asked a Miami judge Monday to allow them to stay in the United States while they seek review of their removal orders. Plaintiffs attorneys argue it would be dangerous for the 92 detainees to return to Somalia, particularly after widespread press coverage of the December flight that led to a lawsuitagainst U.S. …
These organizations are fighting the pernicious effects of his administration. Now’s the time to give them a boost. By Katha Pollitt December 21, 2017 2017 was just the worst, wasn’t it? But we got out of bed, girded our loins, and got to work—hurray, Alabama! Whether at home or in the developing world, these excellent organizations need your generous help …
By Catherine Wilson December 20, 2017 A Miami federal judge ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement to halt its planned deportation of 92 Somalis after what was described as a harrowing two-day ordeal on an initial attempt. “The judge acted just in time,” Rebecca Sharpless, lead attorney on the lawsuit and director of the Immigration Clinic at the University of Miami School of Law, said …
By Jennifer Hansler and Sophie Tatum December 20, 2017 A Florida judge has issued a temporary stay of deportation for 92 Somali immigrants who, according to a class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday, were subjected to “inhumane conditions and egregious abuse” during a failed deportation effort by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The order signed Wednesday by District Judge Darrin Gayles prohibits the Somalis …
By Howard Cohen December 19, 2017 The University of Miami’s immigration law clinic has sued federal immigration officials, seeking to prevent the deportation of 92 Somalis being held at two Miami detention centers, who said they were shackled, beaten and prevented from going to the bathroom on a plane for 48 hours while in U.S. custody, the clinic’s director said. …
