Prosecutorial Discretion Memos Provide Immigration Officers Guidance, Promote Family Unity, and Save Government Resources

Progress at the National Level, Awaiting Implementation in the Field

Thursday, 05 August 2010

CHICAGO (June 30, 2010) - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled yesterday that an immigrant woman who was placed in removal proceedings after her U.S. citizen husband claimed their marriage was fraudulent should have been given the chance to cross-examine him before being ordered deported.

The court ruled that Manuela Malave had the right to question her husband about an affidavit he submitted in 1997 claiming that she paid $1,000 to marry him in order to obtain lawful immigration status. Ms. Malave denies that the marriage was fraudulent.

Thousands of young illegal immigrants were brought to the U.S. as children and have gone on to college. Proposed legislation would grant them legal status, even as more of them face removal.

By Ken Dilanian and Anna Gorman, Los Angeles Times

June 28, 2010

By NINA BERNSTEIN, New York Times
Published: June 24, 2010

The unusual petition is a last-ditch effort to win the release of the ailing man, Carlyle Leslie Owen Dale, a legal permanent resident who has been held for deportation for more than five years as his court appeals languished and his health sharply declined from diabetes, chronic asthma, liver disease, severe arthritis and high blood pressure.

by Sasha Aslanian, Minnesota Public Radio - June 2, 2010

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St. Paul, Minn. — When a Sherburne County Sheriff's deputy used a stun gun on a detained immigrant in 2007, he did not break jail rules. But the deputy appeared to violate standards set by the federal immigration officials for the treatment of detainees.

PRESIDENT OBAMA MUST ACT TO END HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN IMMIGRATION SYSTEM

A Report from the National Immigrant Justice Center

CHICAGO (May 28, 2010) - Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) demands immediate action by President Obama and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to end human rights violations in the U.S. immigration detention system following allegations of sexual assault against female immigration detainees at T. Don Hutto Residential Center in Taylor, Texas.

National Immigrant Justice Center

CHICAGO (May 4, 2010) - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled yesterday in Hui v. Castañeda that immigrants who are detained by immigration authorities are barred from bringing actions to challenge egregious medical mistreatment while they are in custody.

Fall 2009: Asylum Seekers Need Protection, Not Detention