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  2. Secure Communities - Wikipedia

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    Secure Communities is a data-sharing program that relies on coordination between federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies. [1] [2] The program was designed to "check the immigration status of every single person arrested by local police anywhere in the country". [3]

  3. Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements - Wikipedia

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    The IRCA of 1986 has required verification of immigration status for all non-citizen applicants Housing assistance programs U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Varies based on the program, but include local public housing authorities (PHAs) and property owners [23] Mandatory for all non-citizen applicants Eligible [23 ...

  4. List of immigrant detention sites in the United States

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    This is a list of detention facilities holding illegal immigrants in the United States.The United States maintains the largest illegal immigrant detention camp infrastructure in the world, which by the end of the fiscal year 2007 included 961 sites either directly owned by or contracted with the federal government, according to the Freedom of Information Act Office of the U.S. Immigration and ...

  5. Immigration detention in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The enactment of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act in 1996 added onto the Immigration and Nationality Act a clause, titled Section 287(g), which allows state and local law enforcement officials to enforce federal immigration law on the condition that they are trained and monitored by ICE. This agreement in practice ...

  6. USCIS immigration forms - Wikipedia

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    Of the USCIS immigration forms, decisions on the two forms Form I-130 (family-based immigration, the F and IR categories) and the widower subcategory for Form I-360 (special immigrants, the EB-4 category), must be appealed through the EOIR-29 (Notice of Appeal to the Board of Immigration Appeals from a Decision of an Immigration Officer) to the ...

  7. Detainer - Wikipedia

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    Detainer (from detain, Latin detinere); originally in British law, the act of keeping a person against his will, or the wrongful keeping of a person's goods, or other real or personal property. A writ of detainer was a form for the beginning of a personal action against a person already lodged within the walls of a prison; it was superseded by ...

  8. Immigration detention - Wikipedia

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    Immigration detention is the policy of holding individuals suspected of visa violations, illegal entry or unauthorized arrival, as well as those subject to deportation and removal until a decision is made by immigration authorities to grant a visa and release them into the community, or to repatriate them to their country of departure.

  9. Immigration and Nationality Act Section 287(g) - Wikipedia

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    ICE provides the officers with authorization to identify, process, and—when appropriate—detain immigration offenders they encounter during their regular, daily law-enforcement activity. Section 287(g), codified at 8 U.S.C. § 1357(g) , was added by section 133 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 .