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National Immigrant Justice Center

Report: Human Rights Violated At Midwest Immigrant Detention Centers

Posted 12.13.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Immigrant Human Rights Violations, Immigrant Detention Facilities, Immigration Reform, Midwest Coalition for Human Rights, Immigrant Detention in Jails, Immigrant Detention Case Study, Immigrant Detention Illinois, Immigrant Detention Rights, National Immigrant Justice Center, Not Too Late for Reform, Immigrant Rights Violations, Immigrant Detention, Chicago News

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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Deportation Roulette

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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Arlene M. Roberts

It is understood that a legal permanent resident who has a brush with the law would be subject to the consequences - including deportation - based on ...

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Immigration Detention Reform, One Year Later

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Mary Meg McCarthy, Heartland Alliance, National Immigrant Justice Center, Barbara Frey, Midwest Coalition for Human Rights, Elizabeth Guzman, Stewart Detention Facility, Pedro Guzman, Detention Monitoring Council, Lumpkin, Politics News
Arlene M. Roberts

The immigration detention system will be a "truly civil detention system," one aimed at safely and humanely holding people accused of civil immigratio...

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Isolated in Detention: Legal Representation and Detained Immigrants

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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Arlene M. Roberts

In a report released earlier today, the National Immigrant Justice Center found that the availability of affordable legal services for immigrant detainees is grossly inadequate.

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Alternative Detention Resolution

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Arbitrary Detention, Carlyle Leslie Owen Dale, Caribbean Detainees, Caribbeans in Detention, Caribbean Returnees, CARICOM Returnees, Claudia Valenzuela, Dale v. Holder, Immigration, Immigration Detention, Jamaican Returnees, Jeffrey Freeman, National Immigrant Justice Center, United Nations, United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, Wendy Netter Epstein, Iiraira, Nijc, Unwgad, Politics News
Arlene M. Roberts

For many aggrieved parties, the United Nations is a forum for resolving international disputes. But for Carlyle Leslie Owen Dale, a Jamaican immigran...

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Minor Infractions: Supreme Court to Hear Case Involving Immigrants With Low-Level Possession Offenses

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Caribbean Returnees, CARICOM Returnees, Criminal Law, Federal Immigration Law, Idp, Immigrant Defense Project, National Immigrant Justice Center, Carachuri-Rosendo, Crimmigration, Gary Patrick Anderson, Breaking Political News, Martin Escobar, Praxedis Castro-Rodriguez, Donald Overton Powell, Politics News
Arlene M. Roberts

One week from today the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Carachuri-Rosendo v. Holder which can potentially impact countless legal immigrants and asylum seekers.

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Madoff's Chicago Effect

Chicago Public Radio | Adriene Hill | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
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Money manager Bernard Madoff is accused of duping investors out of $50 billion. And at least one Chicago-area agency is feeling the effect of the alle...

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