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Senators ‘Deeply Concerned’ by Plans to Detain More Immigrant Women and Children
A massive new detention facility would harm immigrant women and children and reverse administration policy on family detentions, according to a letter sent Thursday by a group of leading Senate...
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Immigrant Rights Groups: Obama Administration Runs ‘Deportation Mill’ in New...
Immigrant rights groups sued the federal government on Tuesday to compel the Obama administration to release documents under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) regarding the use of the expedited...
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Immigrant Rights Groups: ‘We Will Keep Fighting’
At a Monday morning press conference in front of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Los Angeles field office, organizers from the Immigrant Youth Coalition (IYC), California...
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Court Blocks Effort to License Family Detention Centers as Child-Care Facilities
The Texas-based organization Grassroots Leadership on Friday won a temporary injunction in its suit to stop the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) from licensing family detention...
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Advocates: Don’t License Texas Detention Centers as Child-Care Facilities
Dozens of immigrant rights organizers, child welfare advocates, academic researchers, and immigrant families released from detention centers gathered at the Texas Department of Family and Protective...
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Advocates: ICE Unlawfully Detained Asylum Seekers During Raids
The nationwide raids against Central American families January 2 carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) may have been performed illegally, advocates say. Yale Law School’s Jerome N....
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Report: Raids on Central American Women and Children ‘Unconstitutional’
The recent raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Central American asylum seekers have been deemed “needlessly aggressive and potentially unconstitutional” by a new report from the...
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The Real Story Behind Candidates’ Stances on Detention Centers
When discussing immigrants’ rights, presidential candidates tend to focus solely on how their administration would create a pathway to citizenship and funnel more resources to the border. But detention...
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For-Profit Texas Prisons Could Reduce Standards for Holding Children
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission approved a proposed rule Friday to reduce child-care standards, permitting two for-profit detention centers detaining hundreds of children in the state to...
View ArticleSpot Checks of ICE Facilities Might Have One Major Shortcoming
After years of outcry from advocates about the reported abuse of undocumented immigrants in detention centers, the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General (OIG) said on March 15...
View ArticleAfter Texas Licenses Detention Center as a Child-Care Facility, Advocates Get...
A judge in Austin, Texas, on Wednesday issued the organization Grassroots Leadership a temporary restraining order preventing the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) from being...
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Family Separation, A Natural Byproduct of the U.S. Immigration System
To honor migrant mothers in detention this Mother’s Day, the immigrant rights organization CultureStrike has partnered with Presente.org, NWDC Resistance, and Strong Families. Visitors to MamasDay.org...
View ArticleMothers in Family Detention Launch Hunger Strike: ‘We Will Get Out Alive or...
On Monday, 22 mothers detained inside Pennsylvania’s Berks County Residential Center, one of the two remaining family detention centers in the country, launched a hunger strike in response to recent...
View ArticleACLU, Advocates Want Next President to Upend Anti-Immigration Policies
During Wednesday night’s presidential debate, Republican nominee Donald Trump reiterated his campaign promise of building a wall and increasing security along the southern border with the intention of...
View Article‘Mass Release’ of Asylum Seekers From Detention Following Court Ruling on...
After more than a year of court proceedings, a judge in Texas issued a final judgment late Friday afternoon, preventing the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) from issuing...
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Pennsylvania Mural Highlights Migrants Who Were Traumatized in ‘Family Prison’
Karen (a pseudonym) struggled to comfort her then-5-year-old son after he twice attempted suicide during the 651 days they were held in detention, while seeking asylum from extreme violence in El...
View Article‘It’s Horrifying to Think About’: Migrants and Their Young Children Are Held...
Family detention centers “routinely” utilize solitary confinement or “medical isolation” on parents and their young children, according to advocates and attorneys who spoke to Rewire.News. Court...
View Article‘Willful Recklessness’: Trump Pushes for Indefinite Family Detention
At the Greyhound bus station in San Antonio, Texas, you can easily spot the mothers and children who were released by immigration authorities from a facility run by the private prison company...
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