Good news from the Supreme Court yesterday. The Court ruled unanimously in Flores-Figueroa v. United States that immigrant workers who use false Social Security numbers to get jobs without knowing  whether the numbers belong to another person may not be charged under a federal identity theft law.

Read NIJC's response to DHS's new immigration worksite raids policy, released last week.

There is an infuriating story today in The New York Times about immigrant women who are detained and denied contact with their children, only to find out later the courts have taken away their custody.

A front-page New York Times article yesterday indicated that the White House intends to begin a debate on comprehensive immigration reform before the end of the year.

The day started with a New York Times story about yet another death in ICE detention and how the U.S. government failed to report the 2005 death for years because the man had became lost in the system. By the end of the day, in other news, more than 13 people were reported dead after a shooting at an immigrant services organization in New York.

The Washington Post reports that Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano postponed a planned worksite immigration raid in Chicago last week because she thought the investigative work that had been done to prepare for the raid was insufficient. According to the Post, the decision was just one sign that the administration may be shifting focus in its immigration enforcement strategies.

A new documentary will tell the story of the May 2008 immigration raid in Postville, Iowa.

Human Rights Watch released a report this week detailing how the system of neglect that plagues the U.S. immigration detention system particularly hurts female detainees.

Data from studies and investigations is piling up to confirm what many immigrants and advocates witnessed for the past several years: cooperation between local law enforcement agencies and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement can lead to racial profiling and does not make our communities safer.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided an engine manufacturing plant in a town near Seattle yesterday. Today, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano asked for a review of why the raid happened.

Today the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in the case of Flores-Figueroa v. U.S.A. The case will resolve the question of whether a worker who uses a false identity to work is guilty of “aggravated identity theft” even if he or she had no idea that the false information pertained to a live human being.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio finally went too far.

It is clear that the failures of the current immigration detention system are widespread and not merely isolated incidents.

Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) still hasn't learned that Americans want sensible immigration reform rather than unjust enforcement that hurts American workers. Now he is threatening to slow the U.S. Senate's progress on the economic stimulus package by introducing unnecessary amendments that would put both employers and employees at risk.

Another immigrant detainee has died in custody, according to The New York Times. News of the death less than two weeks after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced it was ending its contract with another detention facility in which a Chinese immigrant died last year.

Immigrant rights activists in Washington, D.C., and across the country plan to come together tomorrow for the first immigration demonstrations of President Obama's administration.