Transfers Imminent as Varick Street Immigration Detention Center Set to Close
The decision by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to close its 300-bed facility at Varick Street in Manhattan is of great concern to immigrant rights advocates.
The decision by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to close its 300-bed facility at Varick Street in Manhattan is of great concern to immigrant rights advocates.
Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011
The announcement by the Department of Homeland Security that Temporary Protected Status - and suspension of deportation - would be granted to Haitian ...
Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011
Instead of expending its resources to deport immigrants like Jean Murat Montrevil, ICE should exercise its discretion to grant Deferred Action.
Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011
Given the financial and other challenges of housing families in detention centers, Obama should consider more 'civil' alternatives available, such as releasing families into the community.
Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011
Dora Schriro, the new commissioner of corrections for New York City, should fight to remove Immigrations and Customs Enforcement from New York City's jails.
Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011
One persistent question regarding individuals who are in detention and subject to deportation is, "What is the nature of their offenses?"
Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011
As the government of Trinidad and Tobago and Summit organizers keep score and compile their report card, let's be sure that the correct indices are used when measuring success.
Beth Arnold | Posted 05.25.2011
It is time for American policies toward Cuba to change, but I must admit when I left there, I could see the point of trying to hold Fidel's feet to the fire.
Tom Hayden | Posted 05.25.2011
Obama needs to create his own Latin American working group that engages with its counterparts to the South in a permanent roundtable dialogue where no issues are off the table.
AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 05.25.2011
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad — Venturing into an unfamiliar region of the world, President Barack Obama made a splash on a stage of leaders from acro...
Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.25.2011
Following his Thursday stop in Mexico, President Obama will head to Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean for the 5th Summit of the Americas -- a meeti...
Miami Herald | JACQUELINE CHARLES | Posted 05.25.2011
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -- The residents of Beetham Gardens, a drab area of rundown government housing and relentless gang warfare, have been cut off...
Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011