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‘Zero Tolerance’ Overwhelmed Courts and Diverted Resources From Criminal Investigations Attorney General Sessions’ orders to prioritize prosecuting people for immigration-related offenses in 2017 and 2018 put a significant strain on law enforcement across the border, diverting resources away from drug and organized crime prosecutions. The increase in immigration prosecutions, which played a primary role in the family separation crisis, also led to overcrowded jails, backed up court dockets, and overwhelmed prosecutors and federal public defenders. By Aaron Reichlin-Melnick | Read More »
The Government Knew It Didn’t Have the Technology to Track Separated Families. It Did So Anyway. U.S. Customs and Border Protection—the agency responsible for systematically separating thousands of migrant families in the summer of 2018—lacked the technology or mechanisms to record and track the separations, a government watchdog group recently found. By Katie Shepherd | Read More » Immigration Courts Further Limit Legal Help Available to People Facing Deportation The Executive Office for Immigration Review, the agency which includes the nation’s immigration courts, released a memo about the role of attorneys in immigration court. It specifically addresses the role they can have in cases of individuals they are assisting but not fully representing. By Kristin Macleod-Ball | Read More » ICE Revises Its Standards for Some Detention Facilities U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement recently published an update to its National Detention Standards, which govern the treatment of people held in facilities that rent some of their beds to ICE, often city or county jails. The new standards may weaken some protections for up to 20% of ICE’s detained population. By Katy Murdza | Read More » |
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