Immigrant Detention

House GOP: Rape Prevention Makes Immigration Detention A 'Holiday'

Mother Jones | Posted 03.29.2012

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On Wednesday, as most of official Washington was fixing its gaze squarely on the Supreme Court, the House Committee on the Judiciary convened a hearin...

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Immigrant Detention TOO Nice, House Republicans Say

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 03.29.2012

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WASHINGTON -- To some Republicans in Congress, U.S. immigration detention facilities sound like resorts. That was the premise of a hearing Wednesd...

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Private Prison Company Sues Florida Town For Thwarting Immigrant Jail

HuffingtonPost.com | Chris Kirkham | Posted 03.09.2012

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The nation's largest private prison corporation sued a South Florida town this week, arguing that city officials are trying to "disrupt and derail" pl...

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Four Years Frozen in ICE

Ahilan Arulanantham | Posted 04.08.2012

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Like thousands of other people in 2006, Jose Franco was detained by immigration authorities. Most detainees are either deported to their country of origin or released. But this case took a different route.

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No Conviction, No Freedom: Immigration Authorities Locked 13,000 In Limbo

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 03.28.2012

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WASHINGTON -- On a single day this past fall, the United States government held 13,185 people in immigration detention who had not been convicted of a...

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Report: Human Rights Violated At Midwest Immigrant Detention Centers

Posted 12.13.2011

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A report released Monday by two Chicago-based human rights groups calls for the Obama administration to close three immigrant detention facilities the...

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Undocumented Immigrant Released From Detention, Pushing For Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 01.01.2012

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After protests across the country pressed Immigration and Customs Enforcement to free Shamir Ali, the 25-year-old Bangladeshi immigrant was released b...

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Undocumented Immigrant Forced To Return To Detention After Surgery, Family Says

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 01.01.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Balal Parveez, a 22-year-old born in Pakistan, underwent a chest surgery on Thursday. No family members were there to comfort him afterw...

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Immigrant Detainees Report Nearly 200 Instances Of Sexual Abuse

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 12.21.2011

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WASHINGTON -- More than 180 sexual abuse complaints have been reported in immigration detention centers since 2007, according to government documents ...

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Let's Not Give up on Immigration Detention Reform Quite Yet

Michelle Brané | Posted 12.09.2011

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But this is the wrong approach. The reality is that change is hard. It comes in ebbs and flows, and some days it does seem that we are wasting our time. But we cannot forget that we have made some very important accomplishments, even if there is a long way to go.

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When Shackling Pregnant Women Is OK

Marjorie Faulstich Orellana | Posted 12.03.2011

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When lockdowns, detention, and "enhanced coercive interrogation techniques" become everyday words, we are preparing children to accept as normal a world in which shackling pregnant women is ok.

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Police Chiefs: Releasing Immigrants From ICE Detainers Sets 'Dangerous Precedent'

HuffingtonPost.com | Lizzie Schiffman | Posted 11.28.2011

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A group of west suburban police chiefs sent a letter to Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle to "express extreme disappointment" with the Boar...

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After 9/11, A New Era In The Business Of Detaining Immigrants

HuffingtonPost.com | Chris Kirkham | Posted 11.09.2011

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This article has been updated On a conference call with investors less than two months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Wall Street executive ...

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Backlogs Climb In Immigration Courts

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 08.08.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Immigration courts are too slow to keep up with the high number of undocumented immigrants detected by enforcement agencies, despite a n...

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Immigrant Freed From 19-Month Detention: 'I Treat My Dogs Much Better Than The Detainees Are Treated'

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 07.18.2011

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On Tuesday, for the first time in 19 months, Pedro Guzman left Stewart Detention Center, a privately run facility where he was housed while fighting d...

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Prison Sexual Assault Reforms Won't Cover Immigrant Detention Centers

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 06.03.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Time is running out for the public to weigh in on a proposed Department of Justice rule that would not include immigrant detention cente...

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Deport Me! Foreign-Born in American Prisons and the U.S. Culture of Punishment

Baz Dreisinger | Posted 05.31.2011

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Alvin McLean has a peculiar request for the powers that be: deport me, please. Odder than his request is the state government's refusal to oblige it.

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How Immigration Reform Got Caught in the Deportation Dragnet

Seth Freed Wessler | Posted 05.25.2011

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This is the sort of human story that lies behind the deportation numbers the Obama administration bragged about this week. The indiscriminate deportation machine is undercutting the promise of reform.

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Will Police Hate Arizona's Anti-Immigrant Law, Too?

Michelle Chen | Posted 05.25.2011

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Arizona, under the guise of establishing law and order, has made its criminal justice system even more arbitrary, chaotic, and alienating to the communities who have come to see police as the real security threat.

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement Gets A Makeover

Afton Branche | Posted 05.25.2011

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This week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced changes to its management structure, conceived as part of a strategy to "re-brand" the agency...

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The Right to Be Heard

Glyn Vincent | Posted 05.25.2011

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Approximately 260 New York immigration detainees were recently moved by the ICE to a Hudson County Correctional Center in Kearny, New Jersey, where a hunger strike took place on Monday.

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The Criminal Flaw in Obama's Immigration Vision

Seth Freed Wessler | Posted 05.25.2011

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If the trend line that Bush's enforcement structure set in motion continues, we're on pace to be deporting around half a million people a year by 2013.

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The Red Cross Hotel (Part Two)

Brigid Brett | Posted 11.17.2011

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She politely tells us they are only following regulations, that if you enter Europe without the Schengen visa, this is the consequence.

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New York Abandons Role as Sanctuary for Immigrants

Seth Freed Wessler | Posted 05.25.2011

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Immigrations agents at Rikers regularly deceive people they suspect of not being citizens and rope them into the deportation system by violating their legal and human rights.

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The Case for Detention Reform

Rep. Jared Polis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Prisons should be for criminals, not honest, productive people caught up in the byzantine morass of our broken immigration system.

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