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VideoMost immigrants Sent Back to Mexico Detained at Work or Home, Border Apprehensions Decline
by Jorge Rivas on May 21 2012, 5:18PM
While the number of people crossing from Mexico into the United States has fallen to 40 year lows, the rates of deportation have reached historic highs.
Topics: Immigration, /NOW Blog, Schools & Youth
Feds Use Counter-Terrorism Laws to Fuel Deportation Machine
by Seth Freed Wessler on May 15 2012, 8:41AM
A decade after September 11, 2001, the government is wielding it’s broad counterterrorism powers against non-citizens who pose no threat and who face deportation as a result.
Topics: Immigration, National Security
Idaho Supreme Court Reunites Family Torn Apart By Deportation
by Seth Freed Wessler on May 8 2012, 1:03PM
Justice Daniel Eismann wrote that a lower court’s finding that the father had willfully abandoned his daughter and failed to maintain contact with his child is “clearly erroneous. In fact, it is absurd.”
Topics: /NOW Blog
After Review, ICE Puts 16K of 300K Deportation Cases on Hold
by Julianne Hing on April 25 2012, 4:20PM
Advocates say ICE is allowing too many cases to fall through the cracks.
Topics: Deportation Dragnet, Immigration, /NOW Blog
As SB 1070 Heads to Court, a Father’s Case Reveals the Larger Problem
by Julianne Hing on April 24 2012, 10:29AM
An Argentinian father of three faces deportation because police officers arrested him when he went into a diabetic shock. Is this what Obama meant when he said he wanted more humane deportation policies?
Topics: Deportation Dragnet, Immigration
California Pols Move to Keep Immigrant Families Unified During Deportation
by Seth Freed Wessler on April 24 2012, 9:36AM
In reaction to Colorlines.com’s investigation, a state Assembly bill seeks to strengthen parents’ rights to stay in contact with children and child welfare case workers while detained.
Topics: Immigration, Shattered Families
Shocking Video Shows Border Agents Brutally Beating Immigrant Man
by Jamilah King on April 20 2012, 9:27AM
Tonight, PBS will air horrifying video of Anastasio Hernandez-Rojas’s deadly 2010 encounter with U.S. border agents. Rojas’s family wants a Justice Department investigation.
Topics: /NOW Blog
Justice Delayed in Deported Dad’s Fight to Regain Custody of Kids
by Seth Freed Wessler on April 13 2012, 8:50AM
Weeks after his case gained national media attention, Felipe Montes says that the North Carolina’s family reunification system is actually set up to work against him.
Topics: Immigration, Shattered Families
Deportation Video Wins White House Contest, But Disappears
by Jorge Rivas on April 11 2012, 5:01PM
The Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders office received over 200 submissions and narrowed it down to 11 videos the public could vote on. But the video with the most votes was ignored in the end.
Topics: Arts & Culture, /NOW Blog
Less Than Half of 3K Detained in ICE Sweeps Convicted of Felonies
by Seth Freed Wessler on April 6 2012, 10:01AM
Federal immigration authorities launched massive raids that netted over 3,100 detentions. But the Obama administration isn’t only focused on deporting so-called ‘violent criminals.’
Topics: Immigration
ICE Arrest 3k Immigrants in 6 Days, Largest Roundup Ever
by Jorge Rivas on April 3 2012, 10:28AM
Insiders say the mass raids last week and over the weekend are the clearest sign yet that the Administration’s claims to have softened it’s immigration enforcement approach are purely rhetorical.
Topics: Immigration, /NOW Blog
California Senate Moves To Protect Immigrant Families in Deportation
by Seth Freed Wessler on March 28 2012, 9:47AM
Nearly a quarter of the U.S. citizen children that Colorlines.com found stuck in foster care as parents moved through detention and deportation are in California. The state Senate is moving forward with a bill that would keep their families together.
Topics: Immigration, Shattered Families
Local Fight Against Deportation Pipeline Moves From Money to Rights
by Julianne Hing on March 16 2012, 10:29AM
The Obama administration is willing to pay big money to make sure the politically symbolic Cook County doesn’t ditch its marquee immigration enforcement program. Key lessons? Fighting unjust policy with a fiscal argument has its limitations.
Topics: Immigration
Man Who Died in Massive Honduras Prison Fire Was Accidentally Deported
by Jorge Rivas on March 5 2012, 11:42AM
The fire was the largest and worst prison fire in Latin American history
Topics: Global Affairs, Immigration, /NOW Blog
L.A. Mom Deported After Protesting Foreclosure of Former Home
by Jorge Rivas on March 2 2012, 12:35PM
A 37-year-old mother of a 19-month-old girl, was arrested by LAPD officers for trespassing during a foreclosure protest at the home she used to live in.
Topics: Economy, Immigration, /NOW Blog
ICE to Open Immigration Detention Facility Touted as Model for Reform
by Jorge Rivas on February 14 2012, 2:00PM
The facility will hold detainees in “more normalized conditions” with such luxuries as privacy in toilets and showers and expanded access to outdoor recreation.
Topics: Immigration, /NOW Blog
Deported Dad Begs North Carolina To Give Him Back His Children
by Seth Freed Wessler on February 14 2012, 10:38AM
Nobody argues whether Felipe Montes is a great dad. But the state doesn’t want to send his U.S. citizen kids to Mexico, so he may lose them forever. The Montes are among a growing number of families facing similar crises.
Topics: Immigration, Shattered Families
Undocumented Teen Left Orphaned After Florida Pileup Crash Can Stay In U.S.
by Jorge Rivas on February 2 2012, 10:30AM
ICE said Wednesday that an undocumented teen who was injured and lost her immediate family in Sunday’s multivehicle wreck in Florida will not face deportation.
Topics: Immigration, /NOW Blog
How East Haven, Conn., Became Synonymous With Racial Profiling
by Seth Freed Wessler on February 2 2012, 10:22AM
Even if the town cops’ lawlessness is fixed, questions remain that go far beyond East Haven’s city limits. The issue was not just that racist local cops wanted to deport immigrants; it’s that federal immigration authorities obliged them.
Topics: Criminal Justice, Dispatches, Immigration
Rinku Sen Appears on ‘Nightline’ to Talk Families Separated By Deportations
by Jorge Rivas on February 2 2012, 8:06AM
An estimated 15,000 U.S.-born children will face the threat of permanent separation from their families in the next five years as their immigrant parents move through detention and deportation. Watch Rinku Sen explain the problem on ABC’s “Nightline.”
Topics: Arts & Culture, Colorlines Press, /NOW Blog
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