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Tag: Deportation
ICE Air Flights December 2023 & Last 12 Months
Published by Witness at the Border on January 3, 2024.
Data about U.S. migrant removal flights during the past year.
ICE Fiscal Year 2022 Annual Report
Published by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on December 30, 2022.
Annual report notes that ICE removals increased sharply in 2022, because of an increase in CBP handovers of migrants apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border. (Original link)
Pretense of Protection: Biden Administration and Congress Should Avoid Exacerbating Expedited Removal Deficiencies
Published by Human Rights First on August 3, 2022.
Warns that the Biden administration’s plans to expand use of expedited removal “would result in the illegal return of refugees to persecution and torture.”
ICE Annual Report Fiscal Year 2021
Published by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on March 11, 2022.
The agency’s annual report recounting activities and statistics for 2021. (Link at ice.gov)
ICE Air Flights: December 2021 and Last 12 Months
Published by Witness at the Border on January 3, 2022.
Data about expulsion and deportation flights during the past year.
Doubling Down on Deterrence: Access to Asylum Under Biden
A fact sheet summarizing U.S. and Mexican government policies that are blocking and expelling protection-seeking migrants.
‘They were sending the virus’: Guatemala reels after U.S. deports hundreds of deportees with COVID-19
Published by The Arizona Republic on October 28, 2020.
ICE deported back to Guatemala hundreds of people who tested positive for COVID-19.
Unraveling of Trump policies a distant hope for separated immigrant families
Published by Reuters on September 29, 2020.
Migrants in limbo have hope for change if Donald Trump loses the election, but walking back many of the Trump administration’s anti-asylum policies will be difficult.
Boletín Mensual de Estadísticas Migratorias 2019
Publicado por la Unidad de Política Migratoria, Secretaría de Gobernación en junio de 2020.
The Mexican government’s collection of 2019 statistics on migrant apprehensions, deportations, deportations from the United States, and other data. (Link at segob.gob.mx)
ICE Air: 1,677 Flights While Covid-19 Rages (Jan-April 2020)
Published by Witness at the Border on May 29, 2020.
“This report will quantify, in stark terms, the likely transmission of COVID through ICE Air flights shuffling detainees between detention centers.”
Explainer on U.S. Deportations and Expulsions During the COVID-19 Pandemic
An overview of the dangers and illegality of the Trump administration’s quick expulsions of asylum seekers during the COVID-19 border closure.
ICE Air Deportations: Has COVID-19 Changed Anything?
Published by Witness at the Border on May 7, 2020.
An analysis of ICE deportation flights and the certainty that they are spreading COVID-19.
Trump’s immigration crackdown is creating new coronavirus hotspots
Published by Business Insider via World Politics Review on April 25, 2020.
Four coronavirus “hotspots” that the Trump administration’s border and migration policies risk creating.
COVID-19 Reveals the Full Trump Immigration Agenda, and Puts Lives Directly at Risk
Published by Brújula Ciudadana on April 13, 2020.
An analysis by me, in English and Spanish, of how the Trump administration’s coronavirus measures have not only put its whole immigration agenda in place, but are also threatening to spread the virus.
U.S. deportations during global pandemic risk spreading COVID-19, returning migrants and asylum seekers to danger and instability
Published by the Latin America Working Group on April 8, 2020.
A statement from 61 organizations objecting to the Trump administration’s harsh border, asylum, and deportation measures during the COVID-19 emergency.
The Trump Administration’s COVID-19 Response at the Border Puts Us All At Risk
Published by WOLA on April 6, 2020.
Some of what the Trump administration is implementing at the border risks worsening the COVID-19 pandemic at home and exporting it to other countries.