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By Monique O. Madan, The Miami Herald U.S. immigration officials have told a Miami federal judge that the court has no authority over how the government chooses to detain and release immigration detainees, and that filing twice-weekly accountability reports to the court would be “unduly burdensome.” Over the weekend, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement filed a response objecting to a …
By YVONNE H. VALDEZ THE SENTINEL SOUTH FLORIDA | APR 24, 2020 | 11:18 AM Ismael Reyes Otero is a Cuban incarcerated in the Broward Transitional Center detention center and one of the thousands of immigrants who, along with their families, are fighting to be released amid the coronavirus pandemic. Asthmatic and epileptic and without a criminal record, Reyes and …
By Nathan Hale Law360 (April 23, 2020, 10:35 PM EDT) — A Florida federal magistrate judge has said that he thinks U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement should significantly lower the number of people in its custody at three Florida facilities because of the COVID-19 pandemic but concluded the district court lacks the legal authority to order immediate releases. In a 69-page report and …
April 21, 2020 FacebookTwitterRedditEmailShare The decision could impact thousands of frontline medical workers helping to fight the COVID-19 crisis.
Jim DeFede spoke with Jessica Schneider, an attorney for Americans for Immigrant Justice, and former ICE Director John Sandweg about undocumented immigrants being detained during the coronavirus crisis. 1 MONTH AGO
By TIM PADGETT • APR 7, 2020 The federal government has designated farm workers as “essential” to the U.S. food supply chain during the COVID-19 crisis. Ironically, about two-thirds of U.S. farm workers are undocumented immigrants from Latin America. Either way, they do most of our food picking and processing, especially in Florida. So Paulino Gallegos has a question: If undocumented workers like him are …
NEW ORLEANS – Gretchen Romero said there’s no conceivable way for her to protect herself from contracting coronavirus. Romero, 27, a Cuban migrant who’s been held in custody for eight months since requesting asylum in the USA, said there’s no room inside her dormitory at the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center to walk, eat or sleep while practicing social distancing. She …
They say, “Whenever Haiti sneezes, Miami catches a cold.” But, in the time of COVID-19, the reverse is also true. By Edwidge Danticat April 6, 2020 Isuspected that things might be getting serious when, at a memorial for an elderly friend, who’d died long before covid-19 was a pandemic, many of us tried to figure out how to greet one another. The …
STATELINE UPDATE April 1, 2020 By: Tim Henderson Topics: Business of Government,Health & Immigration Read time: 6 min Eric Gay/The Associated Press Read Stateline coverage of the latest state action on coronavirus. As the COVID-19 crisis unfolds, the Trump administration has reversed long-established protections for children from Central America found alone at the border. Unaccompanied children caught at the border may now be sent back to their home countries, …
Manuel Madrid | March 26, 2020 Hunger strikes have broken out in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers across the country as concerns about the novel coronavirus intensify among migrant detainees. This weekend, a South Florida ICE facility joined that list. Immigrant activists say a handful of detainees refused to eat their Sunday evening meals as a form of …
