Pablo Manriquez

1 week ago | migrantinsider.com | Pablo Manriquez

WASHINGTON—Maksim Borisov says he can’t hide who he is. “I’m super obviously gay,” he tells me, over a crackling detention center phone line, the kind of static that sounds like it’s hissing in protest. “It’s completely obvious—that’s who I am.”Maksim is twenty two, he was born on the far edge of Russia, on Sakhalin Island, where the Sea of Japan laps cold against gray shores. Fast-spoken and fierce, Maskim is a survivor. He’s been locked up in Arizona’s Eloy Detention Center for three months now.

1 week ago | migrantinsider.com | Pablo Manriquez

WASHINGTON — ICE has consolidated an array of databases and surveillance technologies to identify, detain, and deport undocumented immigrants. The agency’s use of the Investigative Case Management (ICM) system, alongside data from the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Flock Safety’s license plate reader network, and other tools, reflects a sweeping approach to immigration enforcement that has sparked widespread concern over privacy and due process.

2 weeks ago | migrantinsider.com | Pablo Manriquez

WASHINGTON — A long-running legal battle over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program may soon allow new applications to be processed in 49 states, following a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the expiration of a deadline to seek U.S. Supreme Court review, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) announced Tuesday. The Fifth Circuit’s Jan.

2 weeks ago | migrantinsider.com | Pablo Manriquez

WASHINGTON — Rep. Gabe Vasquez, D-N.M., has reintroduced the Humane Accountability Act, aiming to increase transparency and accountability in the nation’s immigration detention system. The updated legislation, co-sponsored by Reps. Nikki Budzinski, D-Ill., and Juan Vargas, D-Calif., addresses growing concerns over human rights violations and inadequate oversight in Department of Homeland Security (DHS) facilities.

2 weeks ago | migrantinsider.com | Pablo Manriquez

WASHINGTON — In a maneuver as audacious as it is ominous, Senate Republicans are testing the tensile strength of Senate norms, poised to steamroll the chamber’s parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, in a bid to dismantle California’s auto emissions standards.