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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Now Monitors About 118,000 Immigrants Through Its Alternatives to Detention Program
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| (02 Sep 2021) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is monitoring record numbers of immigrants through its "Alternatives to Detention" programs that rely on GPS monitors, smartphone technology, and telephonic reporting to monitor immigrants awaiting the outcome of their deportation cases. According to data updated today by Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse in its 'Quick Facts' tools, a total of 117,682 people are currently enrolled in Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Alternatives to Detention program, up from about 87,000 a year ago at the end of August 2020. See more...
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Tax Lawsuits Half Levels of a Decade Ago
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| (31 Aug 2021) The number of civil tax lawsuits filed in federal court remains steady, but are only half the number of a decade ago according to data analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a research institute at Syracuse University. This decline is likely due to severe funding and staffing cuts imposed on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) by Congress which has caused a sharp reduction in IRS audits and collection enforcement. See more...
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Environmental Prosecutions from Investigations by EPA and Interior Department Continue to Decline
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| (24 Aug 2021) The latest available data from the Justice Department show that during the first ten months of FY 2021 the government reported 182 new environment prosecutions. If this activity continues at the same pace, the annual total of prosecutions will be down 7.6 percent over the past fiscal year and down 44.5 percent from just five years ago. Declines are even larger when compared with federal environmental prosecutions from ten and twenty years ago.
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FOIA Project's Brief Bank Adds Nearly 1,000 Court Documents in FOIA Lawsuits
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| (20 Aug 2021) TRAC has seen significant growth in its FOIA Brief Bank by building relationships with FOIA attorneys across the country and ensuring these attorneys have a trusted outlet for their work. Since June of 2021, TRAC's summer legal interns have uploaded 984 documents to the FOIA Project's Brief Bank, contributed by 19 litigators across 27 different cases. See more...
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5,000 Immigrants Assigned to Biden Administration's New "Dedicated Docket" for Asylum Seeking Families
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| (17 Aug 2021) According to the latest case-by-case court data, the Immigration Court has recorded placing 4,866 people comprising approximately 1,700 families onto their Dedicated Docket. Announced as a new Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice joint initiative on May 28, 2021, the stated goal of the Dedicated Docket is to speed the hearing and resolution of family cases. See more...
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