By Hannah | Published February 11, 2020 | Posted in Immigration Law News | Tagged Tags: CBP, DHS, ICE, phone location data | Comments Off on DHS Purchasing Phone Location Data to Track Undocumented Immigrants
A new report states that the Department for Homeland Security (DHS) has been purchasing phone location data from commercial databases for the purposes of tracking and capturing undocumented immigrants and other immigration law violators. These databases allow agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) to monitor the movement of Read More
Read MoreJudge Shelley Josephs, a Massachusetts District Court judge, is being prosecuted by the United States government for obstruction of justice and aiding and abetting a fugitive. The charges stem from an incident in April 2018, when she allegedly assisted an undocumented immigrant in escaping from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers who were waiting to Read More
Read MoreUnited States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has announced that it arrested twice as many people attempting to illegally cross the border in 2019 as it did in 2018. This increase makes 2019 the year with the largest number of arrests at the southern border since 2007. While not as high as they were in Read More
Read MoreThe New York State Office of Court Administration (OCA) issued new rules on Wednesday which are intended to curtail federal immigration officials’ ability to arrest undocumented individuals in state courthouses. Under the new rules, immigration officials are required to have a federal judicial warrant or order to a New York judge or court attorney before Read More
Read MoreLast month, several detained immigrants in New York City sued Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over their new policy of holding immigration hearings over videoconferencing. The ICE policy began last June after ICE’s New York office refused to bring jailed immigrants to the immigration court located on Varick Street. Instead, ICE cited safety concerns concerning Read More
Read MoreNew York State Attorney General Letitia James announced she has proposed a bill that would punish employers who retaliate against immigrant workers by threatening to disclose their immigration status to federal law enforcement. Her legislation would preclude employers from contacting federal agencies such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) if the employee lodged a Read More
Read MoreRecently, a Brooklyn appellate court ruled that local and state police in New York State cannot detain non-citizens beyond their scheduled date of release to turn them over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers without a judicial warrant. The case The People, ex rel. Jordan Wells, on behalf of Susai Francis v. DeMarco, Read More
Read MoreThe Trump administration previously enacted a “zero-tolerance policy,” which prosecuted every adult individual who enters the country by crossing the border illegally. Because of this, children were subsequently separated from their families, as U.S. law has prohibited the prosecution of children at the border. This tactic has left hundreds of helpless children left to fend Read More
Read MoreSince the Trump administration expanded the Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) agency’s priorities to detain and deport non-citizens in February 2018, agents have sought new techniques to detain individuals who have been ordered to be removed from the country. For the last year, ICE agents have been appearing at New York courts to make arrests. Read More
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