The last time Milady Tavarez spoke with her brother, Pedro, he sounded lonely but otherwise fine. For a year and a half, he had been bounced from jail to jail, fighting deportation to the Dominican Republic. Now, he sat in the Suffolk County House of Correction, eager for her...
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Oct 22, 2009
When "Marta" was 12, she entered the United States illegally, hoping to join her mother, who had left her in Central America years ago to search for work. Three years later she was sitting in immigration detention by herself waiting to be deported back home to her grandmother, who...
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Oct 13, 2009
Seriously ill immigration detainees can't wait for the reforms announced last week by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Oct 11, 2009
All last week the people of Phoenix witnessed public outbursts by their sheriff, Joe Arpaio, as he railed against the Department of Homeland Security for supposedly trying to limit his ability to enforce federal immigration laws. He vowed to keep scouring Maricopa County for people whose clothing, accents and...
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Oct 10, 2009
The way this country detains illegal immigrants is about to change dramatically — at least if the Obama administration follows through on a proposed overhaul unveiled this week. The man responsible for making it happen: John Morton, the assistant secretary for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the Department of...
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Oct 6, 2009
The Obama administration today revealed their plans for the anticipated immigration detention make-over -- much-needed reform of a system that is itself primarily based on a broken immigration system.
This is, no doubt, a step in the right direction.
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The Obama administration is expected on Tuesday to unveil an outline of sweeping changes for the nation's immigration-detention system, saying it will decide whom to lock up and for how long based on the danger and flight risk posed by detainees.
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Immigration authorities plan to move potentially thousands more non-violent immigrants awaiting deportation proceedings out of costly prisons and jails and into community monitoring programs — which could include using converted hotels and nursing homes as housing.
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Oct 5, 2009
The Obama administration is unveiling on Tuesday an ambitious plan to repair the immigration detention system, a scandal-plagued mix of federal, state and local lockups that grew vastly and rotted under the enforcement crusade led by former President George W. Bush.
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On the morning of Jan. 28, federal agents knocked on Shirley Tan's door, showed her a deportation letter and put her in handcuffs.
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