Federal Judge Dolly Gee has ordered that children held for more than 20 days at U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) family detention centers must be released. The order was…
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When thousands of Central American families fled violence to the United States last year, the Administration responded by opening family detention centers, which are detaining mothers and children as their…
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…the facilities in ICE’s detention system—151 detention facilities—are contracted to the “lowest level of detention standards from 2000.” About 65 percent of immigration detention centers are operated by for-profit companies…
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…Professor Gilman highlighted the arbitrariness of government decision-making regarding whether or not to detain a specific family. She further underscored the reality that family detention often results in the separation…
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…11 months, echoed these thoughts and asked for the detention centers to be closed. Attorney Barbara Hines discussed the government’s “failed experiment” of family detention and reminded everyone of the…
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…borders in need of our protection, Sanders pledges to: “End Family Detention. As President, Senator Sanders will end family detention. He will work to ensure that detention centers do not…
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State governments are leading the way on eliminating a blemish from their communities—immigration detention centers. As some state governments begin their legislative sessions, bills attempting to ban certain immigration detention…
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…Increase in Detention Under the Trump administration, immigration detention reached an all-time high of over 50,000 people. The large reduction in detention numbers down to a historic low of under…
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…of people in detention is of significant concern. DHS can and should release people from detention and continue to close detention centers to avoid continuing to spread this deadly disease….
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…detention. Conversely, some Senators recently have proposed legislation to expand mandatory detention. Beyond the mandatory detention laws, the RCA is failing to achieve its desired effect because, in making its…
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