By Adam Geller | AP Companies and local governments have proposed building new immigration detention centers in Minnesota, Michigan, Illinois and Indiana, responding to a request from Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials stepping up arrests in the center of the country. The proposals, most by for-profit corrections contractors, were submitted […]
Author: Foster LLP
By The Editorial Board, The Wall Street Journal Courts this year have deferred the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, but the issue will return soon enough. So bravo to 19 Republicans who have signed a discharge petition to debate a fix for the so-called Dreamers, […]
Children likely to be separated from parents under new border enforcement policy
7 May
by Foster LLP, on News
By Joseph Tanfani, Los Angeles Times All immigrants who cross the border illegally will be charged with a crime under a new “zero-tolerance” border enforcement policy, Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions said Monday, in a crackdown that could overwhelm already-clogged detention facilities and immigration courts with hundreds of thousands of new […]
By Alicia A. Caldwell, The Wall Street Journal The Trump administration on Friday said it would end a humanitarian program for tens of thousands of Honduran immigrants living in the U.S. since the 1990s. As many as 57,000 Honduran immigrants have been allowed to live and work in the U.S. […]