National Immigration Forum

ICE Establishes Online Detainee Locator System

July 29, 2010

ICE has launched the Online Detainee Locator System, a website in English or Spanish where the public can search by name or alien registration number and country of birth to find out where a detainee ...

National Guard Troops to be Deployed to Southwest Border August 1

July 26, 2010

On July 19, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Department of Defense (DOD) announced deployments of 1,200 National Guard troops to assist border patrol agents along the Southwest border to ...

CNN/Opinion Research Poll

July 26, 2010

This survey of 1,018 adults conducted in July of 2010 found that 81% of respondents favored "creating a program that would allow illegal immigrants already living in the United States for a number of ...

Estimates of the Resident Nonimmigrant Population in the United States: 2008

July 01, 2010

This report presents estimates on the size and characteristics of the resident nonimmigrant population in the United States in 2008. Slightly more than half (0.93 million) of the 1.83 million ...

Federal Judge Halts Portions of Arizona’s Unconstitutional Anti-Immigrant Law

July 28, 2010

Temporary Victory for the Civil Rights of Every American Washington D.C. – Today, Federal Judge Susan Bolton prohibited the most controversial portions of Arizona’s SB1070, a harsh ...

Utah Attorney General, Utah Leaders Denounce Immigrant Blacklist

July 16, 2010

AG: We Will Begin an Immediate Aggressive Investigation PRESS CONFERENCE AUDIO AVAILABLE AT: http://www.immigrationforum.org/images/uploads/2010/PressConf_10-0716.mp3 Washington, D.C./Salt Lake ...

Arizona Asks for “Expedited Appeal,” but Facts Don’t Warrant Emergency Consideration

July 30, 2010

On July 29, Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona asked the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for an expedited hearing to overturn Wednesday’s ruling by District Court Judge Susan Bolton that put on hold ...

Immigration Enforcement’s Moving Goalposts

July 28, 2010

There was a story in the Washington Post on July 26 that was yet another reminder of how one-sided the immigration debate has become. Under the headline “Deportation of illegal immigrants ...