In 2013, Ana Kikabidze was selected to receive a U.S. green card. When unforeseen circumstances hit she had to move back to her home country. When she came back to the U.S. in May with her children, the family was arrested and sent to the controversial detention center in Dilley, Texas. Kikabidze and a reporter for The Marshall Project, Lauren Villagran, join Peter Alexander to share more on her story.
Critics say it is the reason why more detainees are risking their lives to protest inhumane conditions and legal rights violations, in the form of widespread hunger strikes.
That revenue does not include net proceeds of $1.6 billion made by CoreCivic after the recent sale of four of their facilities to the Department of Homeland Security.
The Department of Homeland Security has launched a crackdown on fraudulent asylum filings, with an attorney facing a $250,000 fine for the first time. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has initiated its first-ever financial penalty against an immigration attorney, proposing a $250,000 fine for Vinod Doddamani, who is accused of filing […]
The Department of Homeland Security has launched a crackdown on fraudulent asylum filings, with an attorney facing a $250,000 fine for the first time. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has initiated its first-ever financial penalty against an immigration attorney, proposing a $250,000 fine for Vinod Doddamani, who is accused of filing 64 fraudulent asylum applications in 32 cases. DETAIL: Federal investigators allege that Doddamani’s filings contained nearly identical narratives, descriptions, and supporting details, raising suspicions of systemic abuse of the asylum process. The action follows a directive from Department of Homeland Security (DHS) leadership to target legal professionals suspected…Open
The policy, issued during the Biden administration, directed the agency to review and report all detainee fatalities, including those that occurred post-release.
An immigrant family is grappling with the ordeal suffered by a 3-year-old girl who endured alleged sexual abuse while her father fought for five months for her release from federal custody
The continued drain of personnel from the already strained immigration court system has contributed to depleted staff morale, mounting case backlogs — and floundering due process.
