{"id":33,"date":"2018-06-02T19:46:46","date_gmt":"2018-06-02T19:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/kohanreport\/?p=33"},"modified":"2018-06-02T19:46:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T19:46:46","slug":"expert-ice-uses-green-card-appointments-at-uscis-to-arrest-low-hanging-fruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kohan\/expert-ice-uses-green-card-appointments-at-uscis-to-arrest-low-hanging-fruit\/","title":{"rendered":"Expert: ICE Uses Green Card Appointments at USCIS to Arrest &#8216;Low Hanging Fruit&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a class=\"nwv\" title=\"Opens in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Justice\/2018\/0601\/In-Boston-pushback-on-controversial-ICE-tactic-separating-families\" target=\"nw\">Simon Montlake, CSMonitor, June 1, 2018<\/a><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0&#8211; &#8220;Immigrants married to US citizens who petition for them to stay present an easy target since they have declared themselves to US immigration services. Self-reporting\u00a0immigrants make tempting targets for enforcement, says\u00a0<em><strong><a class=\"nwv\" title=\"Opens in a new window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lawschool.cornell.edu\/faculty\/bio_stephen_yale-loehr.cfm\" target=\"nw\">Stephen Yale-Loehr, a professor of immigration law practice at Cornell Law School<\/a><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0in Ithaca, NY. \u201cIf you want to increase your numbers quickly, arresting people who turn up at [immigration services] are low hanging fruit. You know what time they\u2019re going to be there,\u201d he says. Now that practice faces judicial pushback in federal court in Boston. Eduardo was freed on May 8 after ICE was found to have violated his rights while in custody. This ruling led to a broader inquiry into ICE\u2019s tactics by US District Judge Mark Wolf, who questioned why it was necessary to separate families who were seeking legal status for unauthorized members.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Montlake, CSMonitor, June 1, 2018\u00a0&#8211; &#8220;Immigrants married to US citizens who petition for them to stay present an easy target since they have declared themselves to US immigration services. Self-reporting\u00a0immigrants make tempting targets for enforcement, says\u00a0Stephen Yale-Loehr, a professor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kohan\/expert-ice-uses-green-card-appointments-at-uscis-to-arrest-low-hanging-fruit\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232175],"tags":[243866],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-immigration","tag-expert-ice-uses-green-card-appointments-at-uscis-to-arrest-low-hanging-fruit"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kohan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kohan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kohan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kohan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kohan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kohan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kohan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kohan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kohan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}