Tagged: Immigration Detention
Prison officials in Texas are in the process of transferring around 2800 inmates from the Willacy County Correctional Center in Raymondville after a prisoner uprising over the weekend reportedly left the tent city prison...
Police shooting sparks a week of protests and vigils in Ferguson, MO Obama announces aid drops to end, airstrikes to continue in northern Iraq White House reverses policy on lobbyists Texas and California: Opposing...
A commentary from Mumia Abu Jamal on the reaction within the United States to the mass migration of unaccompanied Central American minors. download As an ineffectual Congress gives voice to howling throngs decrying the...
U.S. resumes military aid to Egypt despite outcry over imprisoned journalists Supreme Court rules police need warrants to search cell phones Immigration detainees in Ontario boycott administrative review process Thousands face water shut-offs in...
Over one hundred migrants detained in Ontario, Canada are boycotting their chance for release by refusing to participate in the process of administrative review of their cases. Migrant detainees involved in the boycott include...
Pressure mounts on Iraq’s al-Maliki to step aside as ISIS-led insurgency continues Palestinian hunger strikes continue amid increased Israeli military action after three settler youth go missing Local police test public reaction to aerial...
A large increase in the number of unaccompanied minors apprehended by Border Patrol agents over the past few months has prompted federal authorities to improvise shelters to hold the children while their legal status...
Mass abduction of Nigerian schoolgirls prompts international outrage New bill addresses immigration detention conditions, advocates seek end of “bed quota” São Paulo sweatshops trap Bolivians seeking jobs in Brazil Israel increasingly kills civilians in...
Advocates for immigration reform continue to call for presidential action to halt deportations. Undocumented mothers from around the country came to Washington DC ahead of Mothers’ Day to ask for the expansion of deferred...
The U.S. Department of Justice released new statistics Wednesday which indicates a 5-year decline in court-ordered deportations from the U.S. interior. The report, however, is limited – covering only the immigration cases that fall...