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Headquartered in Texas and with national reach, RAICES, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization formally known as the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, promotes migrant justice by providing legal services, social services case management, and rights advocacy for immigrant, refugee, and asylum-seeking people and families.
The Central American Resource Center (CARECEN) are two community-based organizations that seek to foster the comprehensive development of the Latino community.CARECEN in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan region was founded in 1981 to protect the rights of refugees arriving from conflict in Central America and to help ease their transition by providing legal services.
In the United States, other than in the military departments, the first Office of Inspector General was established by act of Congress in 1976 [1] under the Department of Health and Human Services to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicare, Medicaid, and more than 100 other departmental programs. [2]
The Los Angeles City Council, which represents the second-largest US city, unanimously voted to adopt a “sanctuary city” ordinance that prohibits city resources from being used in immigration ...
OIG Legal Services (LS) manages the OIG’s legal and Freedom of Information Act functions as well as provides legal assistance to the Inspector General and OIG staff, and ensure all operations of the Office are in compliance with all federal statutes and regulatory requirements. LS staff also ensure OIG staff are acting ethically. [3]
Since 2021, the office has been held by Robin Ashton. The first inspector general was appointed in 1952. [1] The Central Intelligence Agency Office of Inspector General has worked on cases in collaboration with the United States Department of Justice and the National Security Agency Office of Inspector General. [2]
The Office of Refugee Resettlement took over the supervision of unaccompanied minors in 2003. In the first nine years of its operations, it was charged with fewer than 8,000 children per year. [18] The number of apprehended UAC doubled from 2009 to 2013. [14] The 2014 American immigration crisis included an influx of unaccompanied minors.
An inspector general probe into the U.S. Postal Service surveillance program, known as iCOP, concluded that the agency did not have the legal authority to conduct the sweeping intelligence ...