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Immigration and Naturalization Services
What does the acronym INS stand for?
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The quota became based on family and skills.
What did the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act change?
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False
T/F immigrants are more likely to commit a crime than American citizens
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Executive Office for Immigration Review
What does EOIR stand for?
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Aiding someone to enter the US; Hiring undocumented workers
Name an example of a circumstantial offense.
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The Body of DRO Standards
What provides operations guidelines and guarantees an adequate quality of life?
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The 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA)
What act established employer sanctions and amnesty?
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The Period of Inclusion and the Exclusionary Period
What two periods divide the history of immigration policies?
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48%
What percent of immigrants have an attorney present during their case?
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Racial profiling; Excessive us of force; Assault; Unreasonable search and seizure
What due process offenses do immigrants face?
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3 Times
How much more does it cost to hold someone in immigration detention for 1 day than in prison for 1 day?
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1882 Chinese Exclusion Act; 1921 & 1924 Immigration Act; 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act; etc.
Name two acts that took place during the exclusionary period?
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The 1798 Naturalization Act
What was the last act to take place in the inclusion period?
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An attorney
While US Citizens are entitled this under the Constitution, immigrants are not provided what during their case?
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Employment, Driver's license, State ID, Health Insurance, Credit Card, etc.
Undocumented immigrants are prohibited from many things. Name three of these things.
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Contract detention prisons, Local jail facilities, INS owned facilities, and BOP (Bureau of Police) owned facilities.
Before it was disbanded, the INS had four types of facilities for detentions, what were they?
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Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act; Establishes a new system that calls for the detention of asylum seekers and formed reentry bars.
What does IIRIRA stand for and what was its purpose?
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Approx. one million
How many immigrants were legally admitted into the US in the 1990s?
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Judge, Immigrant, DHS Attorney, Interpreter, Immigrant's attorney
Who is present during and immigration review case?
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US Citizen and those with Green Cards, Work Visas, Fiance Visas.
On the spectrum of immigrant status, who has a permanent status?
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Situational; Organizational; Ecological
Detainees often face excessive use of force, what are the three categories can excessive force be divided into.
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The 1996 Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA); The 2001 USA PATRIOT Act
Name one of the two acts that gave federal agencies more power to detain and remove immigrants.
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The Department of Homeland Security
The INS has been disbanded, what department has taken its place?
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98% of all cases.
75% of those removal cases result in removal.
What percentage of immigration court cases are removal cases? What percent result in removal?
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It is a ranking of job candidates based on ethnicity.
What is the purpose of the "hiring queue"?
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