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US government uses several clandestine shelters to detain immigrant children ...
May 18, 2019
News Article
... seeking refuge demonstrate its expansive vision to restrict immigration at all cost.
Children in Detention and Family Separation
... Council. > What can I do? To learn more about funding strategies and opportunities, contact Huong Nguyen-Yap if you ...
July 10, 2019
Blog Post
... administration boasts the sharpest increases .
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the federal agency tasked with overseeing and implementing policies related to immigration detention, contracts out a large portion of its detention capacity ...
July 25, 2019
Blog Post
... as catalyst or supplement. As partisan rancor around immigration strains the very institutions of American democracy, SAFE, which ... to the 2016 election and the Trump administration’s anti-immigration stance. But the idea got its start before that as a pilot in New ...
February 20, 2019
Philanthropic News
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As a former lawyer who focused on asylum issues, immigration detention has always struck me as one of the cruelest and most ... exponentially since the 1990s, currently hovering at about 55,000 nationwide. Hence, the work to curb immigrant detention is vitally ...
September 30, 2019
Blog Post
In targeting migrant families for immigration enforcement, Trump administration officials have defended the operations being carried out by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) by saying these individuals have had ... are removable and that they received written notice about the hearing.
While at first glance this exceedingly high in ...
July 30, 2019
Commentary
... has indeed come to pass. Another child has died in Federal immigration custody, the sixth in a year and the fifth since December alone. ... change from our government we must look within ourselves about what the deaths of these children mean about us. How many more children ...
May 20, 2019
Press Release
... Based on my experience, there’s one thing I can tell you about criminally prosecuting people for crossing the border:
It doesn’t work.
Right now, about 99% of my clients are charged with “1325” and “1326,” the federal ...
July 29, 2019
... comes from a foundation that has been paying attention to immigration issues at the border for years, starting long before the 2016 ... CEO Luz Vega-Marquis recently told me.
I spoke with her about MCF’s support of grassroots groups, and the role philanthropy can play ...
August 28, 2019
News Article
... past three decades to push for harsher criminal justice and immigration laws . Interestingly, while only 10% of prisons and jails ...
March 5, 2019
News Article
... has been supporting, who fight on the front lines of immigration and border issues in California and along the southwest border, ... a health foundation. If you have thoughts, send them into us by entering them into the comments section below.
Message to elected ...
June 3, 2019
Blog Post
... the 1990’s, detention has become the primary mechanism for immigration enforcement. The overreliance on incarceration and detention ... companies that are involved in operating for-profit prisons, immigration and other detention services and probation services. Companies that ...
May 23, 2019
Statement
... the network of companies that currently profit from the US prison and detention system—what criminal justice experts call “the ...
November 5, 2018
Blog Post