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In deportation policy test, 1 in 6 offered reprieve

A fast-paced pilot of a new deportation review program has just been completed in Denver, where officials decided to shelve cases against 1,300 undocumented aliens while continuing removal proceedings for the remaining 6600. The pilot will soon be extended to all of about 300,000 deportation cases before the immigration courts nationwide.

Americans stumble on the math of immigration

Americans vastly overestimate the percentage of people living in the U.S. who are foreign-born, by more than a factor of two, and the percentage who are in the country illegally, by a factor of six or seven.

Offering a path to legalization for illegal immigrants could mean a local tax windfall

A new report by the Greater Houston Partnership (GHP) has estimated that legalizing undocumented workers in the Houston Metropolitan area would generate about $1.4 billion annually in tax revenue.

Wrinkle in immigration law may help those waved through border posts

In a recent immigration case, Davis, California waiter Rogelio Servin entered deportation proceedings in San Francisco unexpectedly came home with a Green Card. Servin was a child when he came to the U.S. from Mexico. Like a not inconsequential number of Mexican migrants, he entered in a car that was accidentally waved through a Customs and Immigration Enforcement checkpost at the border.

Border Patrol set to punish deportees with 'Consequence Delivery System'

To reduce the number of aliens slipping into the U.S. multiple times, the U.S. Border Patrol is moving to halt a policy of sending migrants back to Mexico without any punishment.

Will BRAIN Act create or drain American jobs?

Congress is considering legislation to streamline the immigration process for highly skilled foreigners. The latest — and some insiders say, the most likely to pass — is Rep. Tim Griffin's BRAIN Act, short for Bringing and Retaining Accomplished Innovators for the Nation, which would increase Green Card opportunities to foreign graduates in the U.S. with advanced degrees.

Federal immigration enforcement is mandatory, new memo says

Two years after the Secure Communities immigration enforcement program was implemented, federal officials determined that choices available to local law enforcement agencies that wished to decline or limit their participation would be "streamlined" or "eliminated," making the information-sharing program mandatory, according to a memo recently made public.

DHS's immigration enforcement claims not supported by own data

In May 2010, the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University, a watchdog organization, requested case-by-case data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) regarding apprehensions, detentions and deportations from FY 2005 to the present. Almost two years later, ICE has finally released data for FY2005 that is massively discrepant with past reports.