tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36369126308453899692024-03-16T13:52:05.971-05:00States Without NationsResearch and commentary on state efforts to restrict the movement of people across borders, and on the alternatives.jacqueline stevenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02266634042946816555noreply@blogger.comBlogger282125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3636912630845389969.post-361825852160689552023-10-06T13:44:00.010-05:002023-10-06T13:59:02.882-05:00Judge Orders Executive Office of Immigration Review to Produce Screenshots and other Requested Records, Fails to Find Fault When Agencies Blow Off DeadlinesSharing the latest motions and order from FOIA litigation. Main takeaways from Northern Illinois Federal District Court Judge Matthew Kennelly's order of October 2, 2023: (1) Agencies cannot refuse to search records systems indicated by a requester without demonstrating the search is burdensome: Federal agencies vary greatly in their size, mission, the
type and amount of information they jacqueline stevenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02266634042946816555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3636912630845389969.post-12648623603612497782023-07-26T13:42:00.008-05:002023-07-26T16:17:15.511-05:00Court Grants Order in FOIA case for Preliminary Injunctive Relief, Annual Budget Analysis Key to Ruling On March 30, 2023, Northern Illinois Federal District Court Judge Matthew Kennelly issued a preliminary injunction ordering Immigration and Customs Enforcement to review at least 1,500 pages/month. A key rationale for the order was the failure of ICE to account for its refusal to request funds sufficient to maintain its statutory obligations to comply with thejacqueline stevenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02266634042946816555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3636912630845389969.post-77327032112359526692022-10-19T07:55:00.020-05:002022-12-23T18:55:10.844-06:00Health of Cards: Obama Pals Rake in Millions from Obamacare, Chicagoans Suffer<!-- Global site tag (gtag.js) - Google Analytics -->
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var url = 'https://jacqueline stevenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02266634042946816555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3636912630845389969.post-60657619078984445372022-04-22T22:39:00.004-05:002022-04-23T12:40:38.543-05:00ICE Letter Destroys GEO's Ninth Circuit Appellate Claims ICE to GEO, June 21, 2018Last fall, a federal jury found GEO's practice of paying one dollar/day for work performed by those in their custody under immigration law violated the Washington State Minimum Wage Act. The jury calculated GEO owed the workers $17.3 millionjacqueline stevenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02266634042946816555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3636912630845389969.post-60760263200191583792022-03-04T13:31:00.006-06:002022-03-04T13:36:11.119-06:00Evidence of ICE Pattern and Practice of FOIA Non-compliance ICE Tracking Us ICE Tracking ICE ICE's failure to comply with the mandatory deadlines of the Freedom of Information Act is a feature not a bug of an agency that chooses to fund programs to collect information about the public while refusing to fund programs on how the agency itself operates. ICE internal spreadsheets show that in 2016 - 2021 ICE spent less than 1/10thjacqueline stevenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02266634042946816555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3636912630845389969.post-34765682252837214392021-09-03T00:14:00.010-05:002022-03-04T09:27:18.936-06:00ICE, Increase the Real Intelligence Budget! "Planned Activities: Respond to all media, NGO, educational, commercial and individual FOIA requests within the statutory time limits..." From fy 2016 ICE budget"Don't ask and ye shall not receive." - FOIA budgeting museI was talking with some colleagues today about the well-known problem of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement and other agencies telling requesters and courts that they jacqueline stevenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02266634042946816555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3636912630845389969.post-91119787973507873502021-06-08T14:26:00.021-05:002021-06-12T18:28:28.255-05:00GEO Making 33% Profit at Tacoma Facility, Possible Violation of Federal Acquisition Regulation - UPDATE: 36.79%! Day 6 of Jury Trial on GEO's Exploitation of Detainee Labor in Tacoma: Details of Super Profits Released The first big financial reveal was when GEO's Associate Warden for Finance and administration testified under oath that the annual profits for GEO at the Tacoma Northwest Detention Facility range between $18 to 20 million. The monthly invoice he was testifying about was jacqueline stevenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02266634042946816555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3636912630845389969.post-52632721194156770152021-05-07T14:04:00.024-05:002021-05-07T15:35:28.611-05:00Northwestern University Doubles Down on Sleazy Athletics Deals NU to Promote Guy Charged With Cover-up and Files Motion to Dismiss Trafficking ComplaintA few months ago a former Northwestern University cheerleader sued NU, alleging violations of Title IX and the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA). On April 30, 2021, NU submitted its memorandum on behalf of a motion to dismiss. NU's brief is not answering the jacqueline stevenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02266634042946816555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3636912630845389969.post-78921723906920283472020-06-23T16:27:00.003-05:002020-06-23T16:50:24.080-05:00FOIA Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings
Novel Attempt to Avoid Government Dithering
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A release from ICE that revealed a heretofore secret policy position on its work program took SIX YEARS of FOIA litigation to obtain. So much for the 20 days in the statute.
In an effort to speed along litigation, attorney Andrew Free is trying out a Motion on the Pleadings. Here's what the litigation looks like jacqueline stevenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02266634042946816555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3636912630845389969.post-91451711058852678472020-06-21T18:15:00.002-05:002020-07-02T14:18:13.269-05:00ICE Officials Knew Dollar/Day Wages Lacked Congressional Authorization
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E-mail ICE Fought to Keep Secret for Six Years May Clinch Minimum Wage Claims against Private Prisons
For the last ten years I've been conducting research on the history and legality of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and its contractors paying $1/day to those in civil custody for work vital to the operation of the detention facilities.
I've jacqueline stevenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02266634042946816555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3636912630845389969.post-49344050401961972032020-04-17T14:14:00.001-05:002020-04-17T17:52:19.399-05:00Updates on ICE Work Program Violations - FOIA Litigation b(5), b(6), b(7) Order and GEO-Karnes TRO Motion
In an order issued on April 8, 2020, Judge Harry Leinenweber (Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division) ruled that the b(5) predecisional exemption is for policy decisions, not "how to spin its prior decisions":
...ICE’s internal communications about its responses to outside inquiries from the press, Congress, advocacy groups, and the public are not protected by the deliberative jacqueline stevenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02266634042946816555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3636912630845389969.post-72973222955032409662019-11-22T16:41:00.001-06:002020-02-14T14:35:02.829-06:00Dems Pass Giveaway to Tech Firms, Violate House Rules
Sign at Trump Women's March, Dems Aiding and Abetting
UPDATE: Portions of this post appeared later in an article revealing Rep. Lauren Underwood's true colors published on January 4, 2020 in The Intercept: "Democratic Representative Pushed to Create a Massive Migrant Health Database that No One Wants.
Proclaiming solidarity with health care providers assisting arriving jacqueline stevenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02266634042946816555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3636912630845389969.post-39526201525377597122019-08-05T10:21:00.003-05:002019-08-06T11:13:17.624-05:00Schroedinger's Citizen
"For the foregoing reasons, the Department is prepared to conclude Juan acquired U.S. citizenship automatically under INA Section 321, 8 USC §1432 on April 26, 1988." -- Memo of July 8, 2019
links to Juan's memo and previously unreleased State Department Memorandums interpreting 8 U.S.C. 1432 below
courtesy of Wikipedia
On July 8, 2019, the State Department announced that a jacqueline stevenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02266634042946816555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3636912630845389969.post-25948014716623661622019-07-17T03:00:00.000-05:002019-07-17T18:47:53.107-05:00GEO Wants Taxpayers to Foot Bill for Private Prison Exploitation
GEO Execs Demand More Money
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GEO and ICE communications about litigation linked below
In the last five years, seven class action lawsuits have been filed seeking damages and injunctive relief from private prisons that stand accused of forcing people to work in violation of several federal and state laws. In letters obtain from FOIA litigation, we now know jacqueline stevenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02266634042946816555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3636912630845389969.post-634114368149852042019-07-12T19:01:00.002-05:002020-03-17T10:09:08.312-05:00Age Assessments for Unaccompanied Children: Alternative Facts, Policies, and Logic
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Interim Report on Age Assessment Policy Violations by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Refugee and Resettlement
Jackie Stevens
Professor, Political Science Department, Founding Director, Deportation Research Clinic, Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, Northwestern University
Research assistance from Political Science jacqueline stevenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02266634042946816555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3636912630845389969.post-6042148942208006082019-03-25T17:48:00.001-05:002019-03-25T18:24:19.077-05:00New FOIA Release - Butler County ICE Detainees Paid in Coffee Packets, ICE Punishes Hunger Strikers in Tacoma
Butler County Jail, Ohio, Cleaned for Coffee Packets, courtesy of TNEMEC
Attorneys have been suing private prisons for their exploitation of people in custody under immigration laws, a phenomenon that has been receiving increasing coverage by the mainstream media. But county facilities also are violating labor laws. This post discusses highlights of the labor situation in the jacqueline stevenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02266634042946816555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3636912630845389969.post-20635809694547561852019-02-04T12:17:00.003-06:002019-02-07T20:16:37.661-06:00End Campus-wide E-Verify at Northwestern University, Letter to the Editor and Petition
Below is the Letter to the Editor of the Daily Northwestern from representatives of undergraduate and graduate student groups and faculty at Northwestern University. It includes a link to a spreadsheet US Citizenship and Immigration Services produced listing the institutions of higher education that signed MOUs obligating them to use E-Verify for all employees, including student jacqueline stevenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02266634042946816555noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3636912630845389969.post-67189300900446903772019-01-26T10:17:00.001-06:002019-01-26T17:18:29.588-06:00BITMAP Targetting Alleged "Adults" and Asylum-Seeking Children In U.S. Custody, not Terrorists
November 14, 2018 Email on BITMAP, X-Rays, and Age Reassessment, click to enlarge
BITMAP is among the numerous global, mammoth data-collection enterprises that bring Orwell's nightmare to life. It's supposed to "identify criminal persons, wanted subjects (including international fugitives), and known or suspected terrorists" (House Report, p. 2). But an jacqueline stevenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02266634042946816555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3636912630845389969.post-52469596593918429112018-12-12T12:09:00.000-06:002018-12-12T12:23:29.311-06:00ICE Tricks Sheriffs into Kidnapping U.S. Citizens, Bogus Immunity Claims
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Last week a U.S. citizen born in Philadelphia filed a lawsuit after a Florida sheriff took him into custody under immigration laws. (No law enforcement entity in the country has jurisdication over U.S. citizens under immigration laws, a point that ICE itself has repeatedly avowed.)
The sheriff is claiming that the agreement he has with Immigration and Customs jacqueline stevenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02266634042946816555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3636912630845389969.post-37316005913204786852018-11-16T10:24:00.001-06:002018-11-16T14:10:59.624-06:00"Coercivic," aka CCA, Sued for Exploiting People Held during Immigration Proceedings in New Mexico
"CoreCivic profits from its operation of Cibola by relying
heavily on a captive workforce of civilly detained immigrants, including Plaintiffs, to perform
labor necessary to keep Cibola operational and provide the services it is obligated to provide
under the terms of its contract with Cibola County, New Mexico."
From lawsuit filed Wednesday, November 14, 2018.
This is thejacqueline stevenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02266634042946816555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3636912630845389969.post-13286195733354238652018-11-09T10:44:00.000-06:002018-11-16T10:12:18.068-06:00GEO Loses Another Round in Effort to Defend Slaving Wages, Ninth Circuit Motions Here
Workers Paid $1/Day at Tacoma Facility, from article pointing out Gates Foundation GEO investments
The Ninth Circuit Appellate Court yesterday denied GEO's petition to appeal Judge Bryan's class certification of the lawsuit charging GEO with violating Washington's minimum wage laws as well as laws against forced labor and unjust enrichment. Here are some of the key appellate jacqueline stevenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02266634042946816555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3636912630845389969.post-32554440452745075052018-11-01T17:07:00.004-05:002018-11-01T17:14:40.126-05:00Can the Commander in Chief Use Military Funds to (Falsely?) Imprison Alleged Noncitizens and Asylum-Seekers?
Source: PBS, October 30, 2018
I just listened to Trump's plan for holding noncitizens in what sound like military bases while they wait for their immigration court dates. He claimed that lack of space is the only reason people now are being released prior to their scheduled court dates and seemed to relish the likelihood that the harsh conditions of confinement will discourage jacqueline stevenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02266634042946816555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3636912630845389969.post-22355609883383727972018-10-22T21:22:00.004-05:002018-10-23T18:47:53.246-05:00Open Door Policy at Retail Stores Means Mobs, not Jobs, Time to Close the Free Movement Loophole in U.S. Commerce
"Black Friday" Shopping Mob
For years I've been biting my tongue, aware that my views on this subject would be unpopular among my friends in the 21st century, especially anyone in the land of the fee and the home of the sale, a country whose iconic Apple is a beacon calling forth the wired, the bored, the befuddled bad-asses yearning to be Jay-Z. But commentary over the last few daysjacqueline stevenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02266634042946816555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3636912630845389969.post-82791001188776280692018-10-01T11:32:00.002-05:002018-10-02T00:05:36.441-05:00Supreme Court Conference Announcement: Cert Denied for Menocal et al. v. GEO Group, Inc.
From October 1, 2018 Supreme Court Docket for The GEO Group, Inc., Petitioner
v.
Alejandro Menocal, et al.
In its petition last June, GEO reiterated arguments that lost in the Colorado federal district court, and lost in the Tenth Circuit appellate court. In urging the Supreme Court to review GEO's defense of legalizing slavery before the case has gone to trial, GEO wrote:
[T]he jacqueline stevenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02266634042946816555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3636912630845389969.post-60397496379819053412018-09-27T13:17:00.001-05:002018-09-27T13:53:20.278-05:00Department of Justice to Immigration Court Administrators: Ignore Pereira
In June, 2018 the Supreme Court made it clear that the immigration courts were accepting putative and not bona fide NTAs. Shortly thereafter, the Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR) says, okay, we'll stop doing this. And then, in July, EOIR reverses course and tells the courts to accept charging documents that are legally deficient.
On June 21, 2018, the Supreme Court jacqueline stevenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02266634042946816555noreply@blogger.com0