House GOP: Rape Prevention Makes Immigration Detention A 'Holiday'
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...
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...
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 03.29.2012
WASHINGTON -- To some Republicans in Congress, U.S. immigration detention facilities sound like resorts. That was the premise of a hearing Wednesd...
HuffingtonPost.com | Chris Kirkham | Posted 03.09.2012
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...
Ahilan Arulanantham | Posted 04.08.2012
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.
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 03.28.2012
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...
Posted 12.13.2011
A report released Monday by two Chicago-based human rights groups calls for the Obama administration to close three immigrant detention facilities the...
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 01.01.2012
After protests across the country pressed Immigration and Customs Enforcement to free Shamir Ali, the 25-year-old Bangladeshi immigrant was released b...
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 01.01.2012
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...
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 12.21.2011
WASHINGTON -- More than 180 sexual abuse complaints have been reported in immigration detention centers since 2007, according to government documents ...
Michelle Brané | Posted 12.09.2011
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.
Marjorie Faulstich Orellana | Posted 12.03.2011
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.
HuffingtonPost.com | Lizzie Schiffman | Posted 11.28.2011
A group of west suburban police chiefs sent a letter to Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle to "express extreme disappointment" with the Boar...
HuffingtonPost.com | Chris Kirkham | Posted 11.09.2011
This article has been updated On a conference call with investors less than two months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Wall Street executive ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 08.08.2011
WASHINGTON -- Immigration courts are too slow to keep up with the high number of undocumented immigrants detected by enforcement agencies, despite a n...
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 07.18.2011
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...
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 06.03.2011
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...
Baz Dreisinger | Posted 05.31.2011
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.
Seth Freed Wessler | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Michelle Chen | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Afton Branche | Posted 05.25.2011
This week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced changes to its management structure, conceived as part of a strategy to "re-brand" the agency...
Glyn Vincent | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Seth Freed Wessler | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Brigid Brett | Posted 11.17.2011
She politely tells us they are only following regulations, that if you enter Europe without the Schengen visa, this is the consequence.
Seth Freed Wessler | Posted 05.25.2011
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 05.25.2011
Prisons should be for criminals, not honest, productive people caught up in the byzantine morass of our broken immigration system.
Mother Jones | Posted 03.29.2012