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Fifth Circuit Clears Texas to Enforce SB4: State Can Now Arrest Illegal Aliens After Years of Legal Battles

A 10-7 en banc ruling from the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals vacates the injunction blocking Texas SB4 — the state law empowering police to arrest illegal aliens — finding that left-wing advocacy groups lacked standing to challenge it.

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Report: Nearly 1 in 8 DACA Requestors have Arrest Record

USCIS Releases Report on Arrest Histories of Illegal Aliens who Request DACA Offenses include Murder, Rape, Weapon and Assault Charges. Release Date: Nov. 16, 2019 WASHINGTON—Today, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) updated data (PDF, 756 KB) on arrests and apprehensions of illegal aliens who requested Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). The release of […]

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DOJ Gets Transport Conviction Involving 71 Aliens

The ‘unknown unknowns’, plus a Supreme Court review By Andrew R. Arthur | CIS on October 8, 2019 Much of the attention on the ongoing (but improving) humanitarian and national-security disaster at the border has been on unaccompanied alien children and aliens who are traveling in family units (UACs and FMUs, in government jargon) and […]

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Asylum Removal & Immigration Courts: Definitions to Know

Asylum Removal and Immigration Courts: Definitions to Know  Asylum Definition: An applicant for asylum has the burden to demonstrate that he or she is eligible for that protection. To satisfy that burden, the applicant must prove that he or she is a refugee. A “refugee” is a person outside of his or her country of […]

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Immigration Reform News July 28, Americans Demand Immigration Enforcement

Federation for American Immigration Reform MPI: Executive Action Shields Nearly All Illegal Aliens from Deportation A new report from the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) finds that President Obama’s executive amnesty will shield nearly all illegal aliens from deportation. In particular, the report focuses on two aspects of the President’s November 2014 decrees unrelated to deferred action: […]