Sep 9, 2009
As immigrant children and their parents depart a disparaged former Texas prison that housed them while they awaited decisions in their immigration cases, advocates are questioning if the government has fully thought out what happens to the families now.
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Sep 2, 2009
ICE denied requests for a cancer biopsy by Francisco Castañeda, characterizing the biopsy as elective surgery. By the time the government released him, the cancer -- treatable had it been diagnosed soon enough -- had progressed so far that he died shortly after testifying to Congress about his treatment.
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Aug 21, 2009
This country's immigration detention system has been a stain on the American fabric. The good news: The stain may soon begin to fade...Of course ICE could — and should — do more.
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Aug 18, 2009
Yet another reason many advocates are outraged with the current immigration enforcement system.
Today, the New York Times reports that one in every ten immigration detainee deaths goes unreported on the ICE "death roster," with the grisly death total now at 104 - a significant increase from the 90 that...
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In a further indication of problems in the tracking system used for the nation's immigration detainees, the Corrections Corporation of America said Tuesday that it had immediately and properly notified the federal government about the deaths of two detainees at its facility in Eloy, Ariz.
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Immigrants facing deportation say they must cope with poor living conditions and substandard medical care. The Obama administration has been reluctant to set standards.
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Aug 14, 2009
Federal officials say guards from the private company that runs the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma used pepper spray to control immigrant detainees who were refusing to follow orders.
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Aug 12, 2009
Last week the Obama administration announced reforms to an immigration detention system increasingly tainted by allegations of abuse. It is estimated that 300,000 non-citizens are held in detention each year, and that number continues to rise. As more immigrants enter the system, the government has been flooded with stories...
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Detained immigrant children and their families were expected to be out of a former Central Texas prison in the next few months, the Department of Homeland Security's special adviser on detention said Wednesday.
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Aug 10, 2009
As federal officials begin an overhaul of the widely criticized system used to incarcerate immigrants awaiting hearings and deportation, their challenge includes a deep inconsistency in the amount paid to a hastily assembled network of private prisons and local jails that hold thousands of such detainees.
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