New York Abandons Role as Sanctuary for Immigrants
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.
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.
Rep. Jared Polis | Posted 11.15.2009 | Denver
Prisons should be for criminals, not honest, productive people caught up in the byzantine morass of our broken immigration system.
William Fisher | Posted 09.18.2009 | Media
Rush Limbaugh. Glenn Beck. Bill O'Reilly. Sean Hannity. Lou Dobbs: our five horsemen found their Holy Grail: A new cottage industry called immigration.
Michelle Brané | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics
Some 440,000 immigrants and asylum-seekers are expected to be detained in the U.S. this year. We need to be realistic. We need immigration reform and that has to come from Congress.
Renee Feltz | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics
On the heels of an announcement that it will stop holding children in its Hutto facility, the nation's largest private prison provider assured investors they still expect business from the government.
The New York Times | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics
The Obama administration intends to announce an ambitious plan on Thursday to overhaul the much-criticized way the nation detains immigration violator...
Renee Feltz | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics
Maria del Carmen Garcia-Martinez recently emerged from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding cell in Arizona with her arm broken and her hand covered in blue ink.
Jane Guskin | Posted 09.27.2008 | Politics
By focusing on these compelling stories of human suffering, the mainstream media coverage has brought needed attention to the issue of mass incarceration in our immigration system.
Aswini Anburajan | Posted 08.08.2008 | Home
The Bush-agency initiative has been labeled "theater of the absurd" by immigration reform groups and a cover for plans to escalate the pace of raids and detentions across the country.
Seth Freed Wessler | Posted 10.26.2009 | New York