This devastating piece appeared on the front page of the New York Times yesterday. It's a blunt reminder of just how broken our immigration system has become-- and that every day we wait to fix it, the stakes get higher and higher. Real, enforceable standards for how we detain...
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Dec 23, 2009
Nineteen months after the infamous Postville raid plucked 389 immigrant workers from their jobs at Agriprocessors meat-packing plant, about four dozen will spend their second Christmas here, in limbo.
Twenty already served five months in prison and are slated for deportation. They'd been ordered to remain to testify in the...
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Dec 18, 2009
When Venezuelan military officers José Antonio Colina and Germán Rodolfo Varela arrived at Miami International Airport on the night of Dec. 19, 2003, they told passport control officers they were fleeing from persecution in Venezuela and wanted asylum.
They hoped authorities would let them go to a hotel and show...
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The Border Patrol has hit on an idea to discourage undocumented immigrants from entering southern Arizona, the nation's busiest illegal border crossing. When agents catch them, they put them on a bus and send them 570 miles away to the remote port of entry between Presidio, Texas, and Ojinaga,...
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Dec 16, 2009
The Obama administration said Wednesday it will stop detaining asylum seekers who have a credible fear of persecution in their home countries.
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Dec 3, 2009
Growing numbers of noncitizens, including legal immigrants, are held unnecessarily and transferred heedlessly in an expensive immigration detention system that denies many of them basic fairness, a bipartisan study group and a human rights organization concluded in reports released jointly on Wednesday.
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The New York Times writes today that new reports from Human Rights Watch and the bipartisan Constitution Project say the immigration detention system "lacks basic fairness."
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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano recently announced the results of a sweeping review of America's immigrant detention system. Acknowledging its shortcomings, she pledged that her Department would implement a series of reforms to improve the management and oversight of this sprawling network of facilities.
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The recent death of an immigrant who was detained at the Suffolk County House of Correction is a tragic display of the human rights crisis in the Massachusetts detention system for immigrants facing deportation.
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Nov 2, 2009
A startling petition arrived at the New York City Bar Association in October 2008, signed by 100 men, all locked up without criminal charges in the middle of Manhattan.
In vivid if flawed English, it described cramped, filthy quarters where dire medical needs were ignored and hungry prisoners were put...
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