Jill Marie Bussey, Esq.

06/02/2026

The Maryland woman arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in December and held for 25 days despite offering proof of citizenship has been issued a U.S. passport and removal proceedings against her in immigration court have been halted, her lawyers said in a statement Monday.

Attorneys for Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales had presented a Maryland birth certificate and other documents as proof of her U.S. citizenship.

06/01/2026

Human rights groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), on Friday filed a lawsuit accusing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) of abuse and “inhumane conditions”…

06/01/2026

Words matter.

The language we use to describe one another shapes how we see each other, how we treat each other, and ultimately the kind of society we build.

JRS/USA issued a statement in response to the White House's new "Aliens.gov" website, which uses the term "aliens" to describe non-U.S. citizens and encourages people to report "suspicious aliens."

Throughout history, dehumanizing language has been used to create distance between people and make it easier to ignore their humanity. Refugees, migrants, and immigrants are not labels.

They are parents, children, neighbors, students, workers, and beloved members of our human family.

At JRS/USA, we believe every person possesses inherent dignity and deserves to be treated with respect, regardless of where they were born or why they were forced to flee.

Read full statement ➡️ https://www.jrsusa.org/news/news-jrs-usa-statement-white-house-aliens-website/

06/01/2026

Excellent Op-Ed from a colleague and expert in the field, Charles Kuck.

“The memo cannot change the statute. The memo has no authority to change the statute. What it can do — what it is designed to do — is raise the bar so high that the law becomes functionally inaccessible. Make the process unpredictable enough, hostile enough, arbitrary enough and people stop using it. The law stays on the books. It just stops working. That is not enforcement. That is obstruction dressed up in the language of discretion.”

The new Adjustment of Status memo is not a policy shift. It is an attempt to make a federal statute disappear through administrative suffocation.

06/01/2026

A Noticias Telemundo investigation documented a marked increase in cases of people posing as federal agents to rob, intimidate and even injure and r**e immigrants.

The investigation documented at least 31 cases in 2025 alone — a sharp increase compared to an average of 5.3 incidents per year in the previous decade. Overall, Noticias Telemundo identified 84 instances of impostors posing as immigration agents between 2014 and 2025.

The immigrants said they wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between assailants posing as ICE agents and real agents, “because now they all come hooded,” one of them said.

Read more: nbcnews.to/49rICOl

05/31/2026

05/31/2026

Pope Leo's encyclical Magnifica Humanitas reminds us of the importance of each human being and that we should respect and honor the God-given dignity of all people.

05/30/2026

A federal judge ordered on Friday that a pregnant woman and her 4-year-old son from Ghana cannot spend another night at a Washington, D.C.-area airport where they have been detained for more than a week.

Anabella Gyasi arrived at Dulles International Airport on May 19 with a valid tourist visa to bring her son to the U.S. for medical treatment, and she had been detained in a holding room by Customs and Border Protection since then, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.

Read more: https://abcnews.visitlink.me/1PT3a2

05/28/2026

Days of protests outside a New Jersey immigration detention center, including clashes with federal law enforcement, continued Tuesday as demonstrators and lawmakers allege the facility, where detainees waged a hunger strike, has inedible food and lacks access to medical care.

The Department of Homeland Security said that there is no hunger strike at Delaney Hall and denied the allegations of conditions inside the facility.

Nearly 900 detainees were being held at Delaney Hall as of early April, according to ICE data.

Sen. Andy Kim said on social media that he “saw chaos inside and outside of the ICE detention center Delaney Hall.” “Instead of engaging with me and others about the poor conditions, ICE sent in an armored vehicle and a line of armed agents that only poured gasoline on the fire” he said.

Beyond Delaney, there have been allegations across the country that detainees have limited or no access to timely medical care in immigration detention centers, as well as difficult conditions.

Read more: nbcnews.to/49Vyu0m