Late last month, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released new health and safety standards for immigration detainment facilities, which now include things like visitation rights and permission to adhere to dietary restrictions.
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Ana, 37, keeps a daily vigil by the phone in Guadalajara, Mexico. With the exception of two brief court-supervised visits, Ana hasn't spent time with her three daughters or son since 2008, when she left her children in the care of her ex-boyfriend in Phoenix.
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U.S. citizens have been illegally detained throughout Los Angeles County as a result of the controversial Secure Communities immigration enforcement program, a coalition of civil and immigrant rights groups said Wednesday.
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Dec 14, 2011
A growing number of United States citizens have been detained under Obama administration programs intended to detect illegal immigrants who are arrested by local police. In a spate of recent cases across the country, American citizens have been confined in local jails after federal immigration agents instructed the police...
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A report released Monday by two Chicago-based human rights groups calls for the Obama administration to close three immigrant detention facilities they accuse of having the most egregious violations, two of which are in Illinois.
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is disputing the latest figures from a data-research organization at Syracuse University, which indicate that the majority of Colorado deportees in the last fiscal year were not high-priority criminals.
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A group of Jewish boys in yarmulkes and winter coats walked past the "Taste of Mexico" restaurant on Lawler Street last week on their way home from school. Minutes later, a Somali man wearing a keffiyeh scarf around his neck passed by, perhaps on his way to the town's...
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On Saturday, December 3, William Anderson, Ingrid Chapman, and Victor Palafox – some of my favorite organizers in Alabama – teamed up with Occupy Birmingham and organized a protest of the Etowah County detention center in Gadsden, Alabama.
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We know that deportations can have a destructive impact on immigrant families. A new report from the Applied Research Center, Shattered Families: The Perilous Intersection of Immigration Enforcement and the Child Welfare System, found that over 5,000 children of deported parents are now stuck in the foster care system....
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The American Civil Liberties Union has released government documents containing 185 allegations of sexual abuse against female immigration detainees in federal detention centers since 2007. The documents, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, include detailed narratives by three women who describe sexual assaults by guards while the detainees...
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