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crImmigration.com: Category Archive for commentaries

ICE’s new prisoner transfer policy: Something old, something new

Do new Supreme Court decisions help Padilla claims?

Private prison business is booming; strong growth expected

Report: $2 billion immigration imprisonment bill; 32,953 imprisoned per night; number of prisoners limited by number of beds

Scholars Sidebar: Padilla’s inapplicability to undocumented and non-immigrant visitors

crImmigration events in New York and Chicago

Scholars Sidebar: Cheering for the Criminal Alien

Report: crImmigration enforcement funding and prison rates rise

Teaching crImmigration law

Scholars Sidebar: SCOTUS holds § 212(c) comparable grounds requirement is arbitrary and capricious

Report: Secure Communities statistics are neither surprising nor pretty

Scholars Sidebar: AZ self-smuggling crime altered fed power over immigration long before SB 1070

Scholars Sidebar: Padilla after 18 months

DOJ Hotline for Alabama anti-immigrant law concerns

Scholars Sidebar: Understanding § 212(c) relief

Report: Racial profiling & immigration enforcement in Tennessee

Report: 15% of removal proceedings post-9/11 based on criminal activity

Op-ed: House bill would put many immigrants in prison unnecessarily

Scholars Sidebar: AR & TX immigration consequences of criminal offense guides

Report: 55% of fed crim prosecutions in April were immigration-related; judicial emergency in AZ declared

Scholars Sidebar: Pretrial diversion could lead to removal proceedings

DHS releases 2010 enforcement stats

Crimmigration prosecutions dominate fed charges lodged in March

crImmigration.com now on Facebook

Scholars Sidebar: When State Courts Meet Padilla

Scholars Sidebar: 1986 amnesty reduced crime

DHS budget explained in draft report: $2.75B for detention; $194M more for SComm

Report: 49% of new fed prosecutions are immigration-related

Scholars Sidebar: Advising Noncitizen Defendants on the Immigration Consequences of Criminal Convictions

Scholars Sidebar: Due Process & Immigrant Detainee Prison Transfers

Fed. budget funds 33,400 immigration prison beds and 21,370 agents

Ohio anti-immigrant bills proposed

Admissibility of Immigration Status in Civil or Criminal Trials

Ohio Senate considers 287(g) bill

3 new Immigration Judges appointed

Fed. Courts: 36% of fed criminal cases immigration related

Request to Obama: Stop Haitian deportations

Oklahoma anti-immigrant bill uses drug war tactics to buy police support

Scholars in support of DREAM Act

Crime-based ineligibility in House DREAM Act

Report: Immigration Up, Crime Down in California

AG Appoints 3 Immigrant Advocates to Immigration Judge Posts; 13 More Are Former DHS Trial Attorneys

Symposium on States and Immigration Law

Dispelling myths about crime-based grounds of removability

crImmigration.com co-editor decries use of voluntary departure

Article: Why do some states enter into 287(g) agreements?

Article: Padilla victory by crImmigration.com co-editor is rare win

OIL: Guide to Immigration Consequences of Criminal Convictions after Padilla

Report: Immigrants’ rights groups call for fewer immigration detainees

crImmigration editor discusses impact of ICE’s removal priorities

Letter to Editor: Immigration Law is Plagued by Foolish Nuances

Article: Courts should reject the direct/collateral distinction when dealing with crImmigration issues

A response to detention of immigrants in isolated prisons

crImmigration, deportation, and Black communities