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Beware of ICE at the airport

[Photo credit: Megan Varner / Getty Images]   Updated 11-02-2026: It is important for all immigrants to understand that ICE continues to arrest people at airports. These include working taxpayers

The Death of Emiliano Andrade-Covarrubias in ICE Custody Last Saturday, 56-year-old Emiliano Andrade-Covarrubias, a father of three, was found dead in his bunk in the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

Habeas Corpus and Immigration Detention

What is a Habeas Petition in an Immigration Case? A habeas petition is a way to ask a federal judge to decide whether the government has the legal authority to

First Circuit Strikes Down Trump’s Third Country Deportation Policy

Updated September 29, 2026: Today, the Supreme Court granted the Trump Administration’s request for a stay of the order halting third country deportations, meaning the Administration can now resume the

[Photo Credit: Luis Aguilar from Agence France-Presse/Getty Images]   Since the start of Donald Trump’s second term, at least 53 people have died in the custody of Immigration and Customs

ICE agents spotted at Dulles Airport in Va.

(Image Credit: Neal Augenstein WTOP News) There are a million reasons to avoid the airport these days. Long lines. Short staffs. Even shorter tempers. And now a new one: ICE

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit

What is Habeas Corpus and Why it Matters in Immigration Cases “You have the body.” That is the literal definition of habeas corpus, a Latin term for a legal procedure

BPR Immigration Partner Ava Benach on the current conditions at ICE’s Northern Virginia Field Office – “People are sleeping on floors without access to clean and adequate food and water.”

by Ava Benach The occupation of DC by the federal government is nothing more than a good old fashioned immigrant round-up. While the talk is about rapists and gang bangers,

¡Hola, amigos! Soy una de las paralegales de BC, Diana. Como una Latina profesional de inmigración, quería compartir algunas ideas con nuestros amigos y clientes de BC sobre algunos problemas

This is a special blog post by our Paralegal Diana Mateo, who has been inspired to write by the Black Lives Matter movement to speak out about anti-blackness in the

The law as passed by Congress is very clear as to who may seek asylum in the United States. Immigration & Nationality Act Section 208 states: Any alien who is

On May 4, 1970, U.S. National Guardsmen shot and killed four people protesting the Vietnam War. The massacre, known as the Kent State shootings, topped a tumultuous decade that spurred

We have heard a lot about the “Caravan” of immigrants making its way north through Mexico from the Northern Triangle- El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala- of Central America. Once numbering

This article originally appeared on Law360: https://www.law360.com/immigration/articles/972810/assessing-constitutional-constraints-on-immigrant-detention Starting in July 1999, Hoang Minh Ly, a refugee and permanent resident of the United States, spent 564 days in detention by U.S.

La semana pasada compartimos lo que puede pasar de primeras durante la presidencia de Trump. No era nuestra meta ser alarmistas, pero tenemos indicios que Trump no se está haciendo

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