U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is a federal law enforcement agency under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. ICE's stated mission is to protect the United States from cross-border crime and undocumented immigration that threaten national security and public safety.
Rod Jay Rosenstein is an American attorney who served as the 37th United States deputy attorney general from 2017 to 2019. Prior to his appointment,he served as a United States attorney for the District of Maryland. At the time of his confirmation as deputy attorney general in April 2017,he was the longest-serving U.S. attorney. Rosenstein had also been nominated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in 2007,but his nomination was never considered by the U.S. Senate.
Dana Makoto Sabraw is the chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California. He was nominated by President George W. Bush in 2003.
Reno v. Flores,507 U.S. 292 (1993),was a Supreme Court of the United States case that addressed the detention and release of unaccompanied minors.
Immigration policy,including illegal immigration to the United States,was a signature issue of former U.S. president Donald Trump's presidential campaign,and his proposed reforms and remarks about this issue generated much publicity. Trump has repeatedly said that illegal immigrants are criminals.
Thomas Douglas Homan is an American former police officer,immigration official,and political commentator who served during the Obama administration,and will have served in both Trump administrations. He served as acting director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from January 30,2017,to June 29,2018. Homan advocates deportation of illegal immigrants and opposes sanctuary city policies. Within the government,he was among the most strident proponents of separating children from their parents as a means of deterring illegal entry into the country. After 2018,he began contributing to Fox News as a commentator.
Ronald Donato Vitiello is an American government official and former U.S. Border patrol agent who served as deputy director and acting director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from June 30,2018 to April 12,2019. He previously served as acting deputy commissioner of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection from 2017 to 2018 and chief of the United States Border Patrol in 2017. In 2018,U.S. president Donald Trump awarded Vitiello a Presidential Rank Award for Distinguished Executive in the Senior Executive Service.
Kevin Kealoha McAleenan is an American attorney and government official who unlawfully served as the acting United States secretary of homeland security from April to November 2019.
Kirstjen Michele Nielsen is an American attorney who served as United States Secretary of Homeland Security from 2017 to 2019. She is a former principal White House deputy chief of staff to President Donald Trump,and was chief of staff to John F. Kelly during his tenure as Secretary of Homeland Security.
The family separation policy under the first Trump administration was a controversial immigration enforcement strategy implemented in the United States from 2017 to 2018,aimed at deterring illegal immigration by separating migrant children from their parents or guardians. The policy,presented to the public as a "zero tolerance" approach,was intended to encourage tougher legislation and discourage unauthorized crossings. In some cases,families following the legal procedure to apply for asylum at official border crossings were also separated. Under the policy,federal authorities separated children and infants from parents or guardians with whom they had entered the US. The adults were prosecuted and held in federal jails or deported,and the children were placed under the supervision of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Prior to their transfer to HHS,some children spent three weeks or more in overcrowded border control centers,where they reported minimal food,no access to clean clothes or bathing facilities,and no adult caretakers;girls as young as ten were taking care of younger children.
Protests against the Trump administration family separation policy are a reaction to the Trump administration policy of separating children from their parents or guardians who crossed the U.S. border either illegally or to request asylum,jailing the adults and locating the minors at separate facilities under the care of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Family detention is the detention of multiple family members together in an immigration detention context. In the U.S. they are referred to as family detention camps,family detention centers, or family detention facilities.
The Trump administration has detained migrants attempting to enter the United States at the United States–Mexico border. Government reports from the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General in May 2019 and July 2019 found that migrants had been detained under conditions that failed federal standards. These conditions have included prolonged detention,overcrowding,and poor hygiene and food standards.
Remain in Mexico is a United States immigration policy originally implemented in January 2019 under the administration of President Donald Trump,affecting immigration across the border with Mexico. Administered by the Department of Homeland Security,it requires migrants seeking asylum to remain in Mexico until their US immigration court date.
Tuong Tony Huu Pham is an American attorney who served as an Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from August 25,2020 to December 31,2020. A Vietnamese refugee,Pham emigrated from Saigon to the United States with his family in 1975,gaining citizenship in 1985. He graduated from the College of William &Mary in 1995 and from University of Richmond School of Law in 1999,becoming a prosecutor and earning awards from the Old Dominion Bar Association and Style Weekly.
The immigration policy of American President Joseph Biden initially focused on reversing many of the immigration policies of the previous Trump administration,before implementing stricter enforcement mechanisms later in his term.
Review of the Department of Justice's Planning and Implementation of Its Zero Tolerance Policy and Its Coordination with the Department of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services is a report by the United States Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General which was released on December 9,2020,by Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz. The report reviewed the Trump administration's family separation policy,and in particular the "zero-tolerance" policy that was espoused by then U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and how DOJ planned,implemented,and coordinated the policy with DHS and DHHS.
A Title 42 expulsion is the removal by the U.S. government of a person who had recently been in a country where a communicable disease was present. The extent of authority for contagion-related expulsions is set out by law in 42 U.S.C. § 265. During the COVID-19 pandemic,the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under the Trump administration used this provision to generally block land entry for many migrants. This practice was initially continued by the Biden administration before the program was terminated with the end of the COVID-19 national emergency on May 12,2023. Title 42 of the United States Code includes numerous sections dealing with public health,social welfare,and civil rights,but,in the context of immigration,the phrase "Title 42" came to be used to refer specifically to expulsions under section 265.
John R. Sandweg is an American attorney who served as an acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from August 1,2013 to February 21,2014. He is a partner of Nixon Peabody leading the Cross-Border Risks team.
The Director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is a civilian official in the United States Department of Homeland Security. During July 2010 the position's title was changed from Assistant Secretary for U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.
