ICE

March 6, 2017 (Fault Lines) – My colleague Matt Brown wrote a clever post about Daniela Vargas, an illegal immigrant and former Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals beneficiary who was taken off the streets by ICE...

March 3, 2017 (Fault Lines) — Shortly after Daniela Vargas finished giving a speech about the impact of deportations on families, ICE took her into custody. Moments after an immigrant spoke out about her fears of...

February 17, 2017 (Fault Lines) — It should go without saying that immigrants are people. They’re hardworking. They’re lazy. They’re smart. They’re stupid. They possess every single trait, good or bad, that non-immigrants possess. That means some...

January 16, 2017 (Fault Lines) — In immigration court, the basis for a defendant’s respondent’s “good cause” for continuance of trial an individual hearing is governed by the Board of Immigration Appeals’ Opinion of Matter of...

January 9, 2017 (Fault Lines) — The plaintiff in this case, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (or “ICE”) Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI”) Supervisory Special Agent (referred to as “SA” in the trenches) Jason Mount, is suing...

November 28, 2016 (Fault Lines) — If you’re not entirely inclined to lend your ear to us at Fault Lines when it comes to the Supremacy Clause, listen to Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Nushin Sayfie rule on...

July 11, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — It’s never as simple as it seems, just ask Mr. Mencken.  We here at Fault Lines have previously reported on someone’s unrealistic enthusiastic deportation plans, but that discussion was limited...

June 27, 2016 (Fault Lines) — Don’t let anyone tell us otherwise.  The Obama administration is not only doing a very fine job of rounding up and kicking “aliens” out of the U.S., but those booted...

Aug. 25, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — Prosecutors, as the saying goes, are not merely advocates for the state, they are ministers of justice. As the Justice Sutherland explained in Berger v U.S.: He may prosecute with...

Apr. 18, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — Rushinga Muzaliwa is not waiting trial. He has no pending criminal or immigration charges, and no one has labeled him a flight risk.  He has served his sentence for domestic...