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Government Databases Invite Privacy Abuse in China and the U.S.

The surveillance state’s appetite for sensitive information is dangerous under any flag.

Reason · Jul 11, 2022

China Kinda Sus: Indictment for "Transnational Repression Scheme to Silence Critics" of China in U.S.

Defendants include a DHS employee and a retired DHS law enforcement agent.

Reason · Jul 8, 2022

Immigration enforcement policy fight reaches Supreme Court - Roll Call

The Biden administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to let immigration agencies implement a policy that sets enforcement priorities, after lower courts blocked it as part of a legal challenge brought by officials from Texas and Louisiana. The policy, issued by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in a September…

Roll Call · Jul 8, 2022

The Legality of DACA After West Virginia v. EPA

The long-standing deferred action policy fits many of the Chief Justice's criteria for majorness.

Reason · Jul 6, 2022

Supreme Court justices face ‘heightened threat’ after overturning Roe v Wade, DHS secretary says

‘We do not condone violence, and law enforcement will and has responded to acts of violence when people do not honour their freedom to protest,’ Alejandro Mayorkas warned Sunday

The Independent UK · Jul 4, 2022

Supreme Court rules 'Remain in Mexico' can end. Now asylum seekers wait in Tijuana to see if it really will

TIJUANA, Mexico — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Biden administration can end the "Remain in Mexico" program, but life does not appear likely to change much for asylum seekers waiting in Tijuana for their U.S. immigration court cases — at least for the near future.

Tribune News Service · Jul 1, 2022

Supreme Court greenlights end of 'Remain in Mexico' policy - Roll Call

The Supreme Court held Thursday that migrants do not need to be forced back to Mexico pending decisions in their U.S. immigration court cases.

Roll Call · Jun 30, 2022

Violent extremism "likely" in wake of Roe v. Wade decision, DHS memo warns

The violence could continue for "weeks," DHS's Office of Intelligence and Analysis says.

Axios · Jun 24, 2022

Trump-era Remain in Mexico program under new scrutiny ahead of Supreme Court ruling

A migrant woman tried to take her own life earlier this month while waiting in a shelter in Mexico, Axios has learned.

Axios · Jun 22, 2022

Exclusive-Three migrants were kidnapped in Mexico. The U.S. had vowed to protect them

Three asylum seekers were kidnapped in April while in a U.S. migration program that had placed them in the care of Mexican officials in the city of Nuevo Laredo, across the border from Texas, one of the victims and the U.N. migration agency said.

Reuters · Jun 21, 2022