“Children belong in schools and on playgrounds, not in detention centers,” their open letter states An impressive list of entertainers, physicians, educators, and advocacy organizations are among the notable figures to have joined forces to issue an open letter demanding the “immediate” closure of Texas’ Dilley Immigration Processing Center,...
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Neither of them should have been detained in the first place A pair of current and former students who were abducted by mass deportation agents in separate incidents at the start of the Trump administration and had remained detained since have finally won their freedom, including a high school...
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“Kavanaugh stops” in action: Among U.S. citizens harassed or detained by mass deportation agents include a six-year-old girl despicably used as human bait in order to lure her father A disturbing Congressional report says that the nearly two dozen Americans interviewed by investigators “represent only a subset of the...
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An internal investigation has revealed at least 60 federal standards violations at Texas’ Fort Bliss camp, including medical neglect and barring attorneys from seeing detained clients The largest immigrant detention camp in U.S. history has subjected some detained individuals to conditions that have violated at least 60 federal standards,...
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At a privately-operated immigration detention facility in New Jersey, some family members have to travel for hours just to get a 15-minute visit with their jailed loved ones. But at times, officials at GEO Group’s Delaney Hall have cruelly turned them away and told them to try again tomorrow,...
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“One attorney reported that a U.S. citizen child with severe medical issues was hospitalized three times while in CBP custody with her non-citizen mother, and that when the girl began vomiting blood, the mother begged for medical attention,” the report said. But in response, a guard simply said to...
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And they can barely contain their glee. “This is truly one of the most exciting periods in my career,” one private prison executive said earlier this year Stephen Miller isn’t the only one thrilled about the unprecedented infusion of taxpayer funds going to his anti-immigrant agenda under the big,...
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The reimplementation of family detention by the Trump administration means more cruelty — and more money for private prisons The Trump administration is bringing back the detention of migrant families, a costly and unnecessary practice that has been condemned as “cruel and inhumane” by immigrant and human rights advocates...
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The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) sued private prison company CoreCivic in 2018 following shocking allegations by detained immigrants that a voluntary work program at the Stewart Detention Center in Georgia was anything but voluntary. Officials allegedly forced immigrants in ICE custody to work for as little as $1...
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Austin, TX – Since Donald Trump’s inauguration, private detention corporations like GEO Group have seen their profits skyrocket under Trump’s increased immigration enforcement tactics. As the Houston Chronicle outlines: “In the first three months of his presidency, at least 113,828 immigrants were locked up in 180 different facilities nationwide – a...
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