Latin Americans Getting Impatient With Immigration Reform
Even after Biden s first week in office, some migrants have grown impatient as he fails to overturn more Trump immigration policies.
Migrants are hoping President Joe Biden will change immigration policies and provide them a better path to come into the U.S. Biden has already issued a wave of executive orders on immigration and will sign more on Friday, including orders to extend legal immigration, restore the asylum system and enhance the refugee processing system. Officials are afraid that these policy changes could cause a large group of migrants to arrive at the southern border. But even after just a week in office, some migrants have grown impatient as Biden fails to close detention camps over the southern border and overturn more of former President Donald Trump’s migration policies. The New York Times
Unlawfully Imprisoned for Months, Eight Cubans Take ICE to Federal Court
January 25, 2021
Cuban asylum seekers fight for their freedom despite ICE’s violation of the Constitution and federal law
LUMPKIN, Ga. – On Friday, January 22, eight Cubans filed a group habeas petition in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, seeking their immediate release from Stewart Detention Center (SDC), an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) prison in Lumpkin, Ga. The petition, filed by attorneys with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild (NIPNLG), is part of a strategy advocating for the release of more than 40 men who have similarly been unlawfully detained at SDC for several months.