Immigration Detention

ICE's Collateral Damage in an Ironic Sex Trafficking Raid

Subhash Kateel | Posted 05.04.2012

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Does one of the largest law enforcement agencies, with programs and operations with names like "Secure Communities" and "Community Shield," really care about the communities it is "securing" and shielding?

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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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ICE's Detention Reform Promises - A Second Look

Human Rights First | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Human Rights, Human Rights First, Immigration, Ruthie Epstein, Immigration Detention, Karnes County Detention Facility, Refugee Protection Program, Detention Reform, Ice, Politics News

By Ruthie Epstein Refugee Protection Program My drive back from Karnes County, Texas, to San Antonio, two weeks ago, was long and empty. Not long by ...

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Fernando Dominguez Died In Administrative Limbo In Detention

Fernando Romero | Posted 05.16.2012

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According to reports, Mr. Dominguez is the sixth person to die in immigration custody in the 2012 fiscal year. I feel that is one too many.

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New Immigration Detention Center Look Less Like Prison

AP | By WILL WEISSERT | Posted 03.14.2012

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KARNES CITY, Texas -- With free Internet access, cheap overseas phone calls, private bathrooms and no lights-out policy, the new immigration detention...

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ICE Pledge on Immigration Detention Tested Today at Karnes Facility

Human Rights First | Posted 05.13.2012

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Karnes County, I hope, will provide a new model for more appropriate detention conditions -- a model that will mean little if it is not just a first step in transforming all facilities where ICE holds immigrants.

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Immigrant Advocates Skeptical On New DHS Public Advocate Position

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 02.07.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The agency tasked with finding and deporting undocumented immigrants announced on Tuesday the creation of a new position that will work ...

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Dear DHS: My Husband Is Not a Terrorist -- Can He Come Home?

Human Rights First | Posted 04.04.2012

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When Arben's visa was denied, a staffer at one office told me that my only options were to divorce Arben or move to Kosovo. I don't think I should have to do either of those things. I married Arben for better or for worse. I take that vow seriously, and I want to make my life with him.

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Latino Army Vet Taken Off Life Support After Being Critically Injured In Custody of 'America's Toughest Sheriff'

Posted 12.21.2011

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UPDATE A Gulf War veteran was taken off life support late Tuesday after being critically injured in a scuffle with guards at the jail of embattled ...

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Ending Immigration Detention in America

End ICE Abuse | Posted 01.04.2012

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Why are we spending such a jaw dropping amount of money on people who do not pose a threat to society? What are our priorities as a nation?

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The Big Business of Inhumane Detention of Immigrants

End ICE Abuse | Posted 01.02.2012

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Our detention system locks up thousands of immigrants unnecessarily every year, exposing detainees to brutal and inhumane conditions of confinement at massive costs to American taxpayers.

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Trauma Compounded: The Plight of LGBT Immigration Detainees

End ICE Abuse | Posted 01.02.2012

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It is absolutely critical that the Obama administration act to address this devastating problem by ensuring that all immigration detainees, including those who are LGBT, are covered under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA).

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Expanded Immigration Detention: Locking Up Those Yearning to Breathe Free

End ICE Abuse | Posted 01.01.2012

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Rep. Lamar Smith's immigration detention bill is currently awaiting consideration before the House. Not only is this measure bad policy, but it also violates the U.S. Constitution by depriving individuals of their liberty without due process.

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Battling Prison Rape: Immigration Detainees Deserve Protection, Too

End ICE Abuse | Posted 12.29.2011

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As a first step to address the systemic problem of sexual assault in immigration custody, the Obama administration must ensure that the final DOJ rule implementing PREA covers all immigration detainees, including the hundreds, if not thousands, of victims who remain voiceless and vulnerable under the current system.

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Locked Up with No End in Sight

End ICE Abuse | Posted 12.27.2011

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The ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project receives hundreds of letters each month from individuals inside immigration detention who have been locked up for years, fighting their cases to remain in the United States.

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Immigration Detainees Fear Rape and Death

End ICE Abuse | Posted 12.27.2011

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There is one immediate thing the Obama administration can do to help ensure the protection of immigration detainees: make sure that all detainees are covered under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) of 2003.

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Immigration Detention: A Death Sentence for Far Too Many

End ICE Abuse | Posted 12.25.2011

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Ahmad Tanveer, a Pakistani New Yorker held in immigration detention at the Monmouth County Correctional Institute in Freehold, N.J., died in anonymity in 2005 despite telling officials of severe chest pain and pleading for hours for medical assistance — pleas that were not responded to until it was too late.

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"I was scared for my life": Trapped in Detention With a Mental Disability

End ICE Abuse | Posted 12.24.2011

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Trying to fix the regulations misses the point; people with mental disabilities should not be in removal proceedings in the first place.

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Ending The Laws That Fuel Mass Detention and Deportation

End ICE Abuse | Posted 12.21.2011

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For the last fifteen years, IIRIRA has filled detention beds, fueled a booming business industry, and torn men and women from their families and communities, with no clear gains to public safety. After years of wasted taxpayer dollars and ruined lives, we need to end mandatory detention and deportation.

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The Tragic Costs of Immigration Detention

End ICE Abuse | Posted 12.20.2011

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It makes no sense to be expanding a comparable detention regime that costs too much in wasted dollars and ruined lives, and does little to make us safer. Our series seeks a reckoning with an immigration lock-up system that has spiraled out-of-control.

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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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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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Behind the Walls of an Immigration Detention Center in Florence, Arizona [VIDEO]

Ted Hesson | Posted 10.02.2011

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During our time in Tucson, we met with 27-year-old Hector, a former detainee who spoke in detail about his experience in an immigration detention center.

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Immigration Detention: The Golden Goose for Private Prisons

Amnesty International | Posted 08.20.2011

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Imprisoning immigrants should not be a golden goose for private corporations,

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Fighting To Represent Immigrants With Mental Disabilities

The Huffington Post | Yepoka Yeebo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jose Antonio Franco, a 30-year-old man with a mental age of two, was facing deportation. When a judge realized he suffered from moderate retardation, ...

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