April 28 Updates
National
A memo from Trump’s DOJ that was sent on March 14th was obtained by USA Today, who published the story on Friday.
It provides directives to front-line officers apprehending suspected Tren de Aragua members, suggesting officers obtain a warrant of apprehension and removal “as much as practicable.” Those administrative warrants are signed by immigration officers, not judges like criminal warrants.
Due to a “dynamic nature of law enforcement procedures” officers are free to "apprehend aliens" based on their “reasonable belief” they meet the definitions, the memo states.
It purports to grant authority for police to enter a suspected "Alien Enemy’s residence" if “circumstances render it impracticable” to first obtain a warrant.
One day after the memo was issued, 200 Venezuelans were flown to El Salvador.
Legal orgs are already challenging all of this in court.
The names of two men who have disappeared from ICE databases and are nowhere to be found have been publicized in the press.
Many more people continue to be disappeared by ICE
In an escalation of the attacks on the judiciary branch, the FBI arrested two judges the past week.
Judge Hannah Dugan on Saturday in Milwaukee.
Read more from AP News here.
Judge Joel Cano and his wife, Nancy Cano, in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Read more from The Independent here.
The truth about self-deportation, specifically through the CBPHome app that the Trump Admin has been promoting.
After public outcry and judicial intervention, the Trump Administration has rolled back its actions against student visa holders.
International students whose SEVIS records were cancelled have filed nearly a hundred federal lawsuits across the country, a government lawyer said in a court hearing Friday.
At the start of that hearing before a federal judge in Washington, D.C., the lawyer read a statement announcing that students' terminated SEVIS records would be restored, at least temporarily, while the government adopts a formal policy for revoking records in the database.
Read more from NPR here.
The non-citizen registration requirement went into effect on April 11th.
Read more about the requirement from The Big Immigration Law Blog here
Please see the recorded video of ICIRR’s bilingual presentation all about the requirement here
Chicago
Petition from OCAD for Abel Orozco can be found here. Please share and sign!
Abel was wrongly detained by ICE without a warrant on January 26th in Lyons, IL and he has been detained in Indiana, not able to see a judge, since.
Abel’s family needs our help, too. His wife is battling cancer and having the main breadwinner of the family gone has dealt very hard blows. Please share and donate to their GoFundMe here!
To read more about the case, please see AP News reporting here.