#Detention

#COVID19 has reached the Family Detention Centers. I repeat. COVID has spread to detention centers that imprison ENTIRE families.You might be thinking, "wait, there's family detention centers?" Yes. They are
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VIDEO sent to me from the Krome detention center.The detainee is reading a statement written by 62 inmates who launched a hunger strike Thursday, begging that they be released.“If we
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The Home Office has paid a handful of private contractors hundreds of millions of pounds to run the UK’s immigration removal centres, but no one knows for certain just how
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I am horrified by reports that immigrant women trapped in ICE detention centers are being subjected to forced and coerced hysterectomies. Immigrants are human beings with autonomy and rights, not
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Just remembered one of the first scenes in Breakfast Club involves a boy threatening a girl while in detention suggesting that he should “get her pregnant.” I’ve been to detention
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I just want to say that I'm tired of being chided for comparing american fascism to all kinds of other fascism, including but not limited to european fascism. yes, America
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Some good news in these bleak times: Advocate @AmanWadud called me a while ago and informed me that the Supreme Court has reduced the duration of detention from 3 to
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In June, Trump vowed to crush protesters. Federal prosecutors have fulfilled this wish. Out of hundreds of people arrested, we found more than 50 are locked up until trial. Shamar
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#GoodNews? Hardly. While a federal judge ordering the release of children in family detention centers by July 17th seems like a great move...there’s a small caveat many may have to
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Under Article 7 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, ICE is committing crimes against humanity by way of forced sterilization of immigrant women. And they're doing it
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The Commonwealth Ombudsman, who monitors Home Affairs' management of immigration detention, has today published a damning report highlighting serious issues including (again) excessive use of force by security contractors against
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And here it is. HB16 is up for second reading on the Senate floor, finally. As read with two amendments by Chairman Smith, the bill would outlaw agreements between local
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Not gonna lie, this stuff ain’t sit right with me. Why?1. 85% of the kids in cages (unaccompanied minors) are from CENTRAL AMERICA. Yet all I see is people waving
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Looking over Biden's current list of transition plans, I don't see any planned action on ICE detention, the "Remain in Mexico" plan, or the CDC asylum ban. That could of
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DHS No. 2 Ken Cuccinelli issued an official statement today denouncing U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee as an "activist" and accusing her of "preparing to order the separation" of migrant
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The press conference on the Georgia detention center story has started. First speaker is a staff attorney at Project South - Priyanka Bhat - does whistleblower advocacy. Whistleblower filed 9/8
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