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Category: Community
Private-Prison Phase-Out Will Not Apply To Immigration Jails
The much-heralded phase-out of privately run federal prisons had many wondering if that means changes in how immigrants are held by the Department of Justice. It will not, and the New Orleans website NOLA.com does a good job… Read More
CA Court Interpreter Funding Boost Key to Access to Justice
In states like California where roughly 44 percent of residents speak a language other than English, court interpreters are a key component to reasonably equitable justice. Just last week, we noted the backlog of California immigration cases had… Read More
Advocate Outlines Woes As Immigration Court Backlog Moves Past 500,000
In an opinion piece in The Hill newspaper in Washington D.C., a San Antonio immigration advocate outlines a recent milestone in the immigration court backlog: “In numbers just released, the backlog in immigration courts has now risen above… Read More
Yale Law Students Organize To Aid Refugee Families
The story begins like this: “Cruz Montano and her daughter were two of the thousands of women and children who were taken to an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas after crossing the border into the U.S. seeking… Read More