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Charlotte’s Immigrant Community Continues to Fight for What They Helped Build [[link removed]]
Pictures and videos poured onto social media over the weekend and early this week showing unsettling images of Border Patrol agents descending on Charlotte, North Carolina. The city had been on high alert since last week, as reports surfaced that the operation would involve armored vehicles and as many as 200 agents. Immigrants in Charlotte are the latest target of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement blitz.
The Trump Administration's New Mass Deportation Playbook [[link removed]]
Donald Trump has put his whole government toward mass deportation. One of the most visible aspects of that is a playbook that’s beginning to become standardized in city after city around the country: Border Patrol and ICE urban terror playbook.
As ICE Courthouse Arrests Continue, Few Immigration Courts Resist Pushing Cases Into Expedited Removal [[link removed]]
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) attorneys have been asking immigration judges to dismiss noncitizens’ immigration court cases to funnel them into expedited removal—a faster deportation process with fewer due process protections. National trends show that immigration judges are largely acquiescing to this plan by granting ICE’s requests on the spot. But new data analysis shows considerable variation by location: some immigration courts are resisting this new deportation tactic and others rubber-stamping these motions to dismiss.
Facts You Should Know
Last week, the Supreme Court granted the Trump administration’s request to review a Ninth Circuit decision that declared the U.S. government’s prior turnback policy as unlawful. Under this policy, which the government calls “metering,” border officers physically blocked people from seeking asylum at ports of entry along the southern border, turning them back to Mexico.
The Council, along with co-counsel, represent [[link removed]] the plaintiff Al Otro Lado, a nonprofit legal services organization that serves indigent deportees, migrants, and refugees in Los Angeles and Tijuana, along with individual asylum seekers who experienced the U.S. government’s unlawful conduct firsthand.
Read more: SCOTUS to Hear Case on Turnbacks of Asylum Seekers [[link removed]] [[link removed]]
Across the Nation
Immigration court hearings should provide immigrants with a meaningful opportunity to contest their deportation. However, immigrants are facing more obstacles than ever to fairly present their cases—from immense pressure from President Trump on enforcement agencies to meet deportation quotas, to the elimination of meaningful enforcement priorities, to the massive expansion of immigrant detention centers.
Amid these barriers, however, one factor stands out as a powerful and consistent influence on outcomes: legal representation.
The Council’s new special report uses immigration court data from fiscal year (FY) 2019 through FY 2024—accessible in a new interactive data tool [[link removed]] —to examine the role of legal representation in shaping outcomes in immigration court proceedings.
Read more: Where Can You Win in Immigration Court? The Impact of Lawyers, Detention, Geography, and Policy [[link removed]]
Quote of the Week
“[The government document threatening children with prolonged detention] is quite alarming and disturbing... It is clearly part of the administration’s attempt to intimidate and bully young people out of exercising their statutory rights. While it’s no surprise to see this administration weaponizing detention to punish noncitizens, the barely-veiled threats and misinformation in the document against a particularly vulnerable population is still shocking.”
— Suchi Mathur, senior litigation attorney with the American Immigration Council [[link removed]]
Further Reading
New York Times: America’s Formula for Greatness Is Under Threat [[link removed]]
Axios: Supreme Court will decide where asylum protections begin at the border [[link removed]]
Washington Post: Supreme Court to consider case that could limit asylum rights for migrants [[link removed]]
Bloomberg: Here’s What It Can Cost to Detain and Deport Just One Person [[link removed]]
News & Observer: Why this shopping center is a ‘ghost town’ with federal agents in Raleigh [[link removed]]
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