Immigration: No More Secret Prisons

Across the United States, tens of thousands of immigrants are being held in detention facilities that violate basic standards of humanity.

amilies sometimes cannot find loved ones who are seized during raids for days or weeks, and often those detainees are flown hundreds of miles away. ICE's network of facilities lacks accountability, consistent regulation, and oversight -- and it is rapidly expanding. Ten years ago approximately 100,000 people spent time in detention each year; today that number has tripled to more than 300,000. ICE's detention of immigrants is a civil, administrative ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Feb 26, 2009 - 8:35 PM PST
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by Dwight Rousu - Feb. 26, 2009

Greene presents the sorry state of legal procedures in immigration courts. Lack of a requirement for legal advice in civil law matters, and abuses in for-profit immigration prisons make for a major problem in human rights.

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