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Family detention, raids and ‘no price tag’: Trump’s mass deportation plan comes into focus
1 week, 5 days ago

Family detention, raids and ‘no price tag’: Trump’s mass deportation plan comes into focus

The Independent  

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Trump 'Border Czar' Suggests Halfway Homes For U.S.-Born Kids With Undocumented Parents
1 week, 5 days ago

Trump 'Border Czar' Suggests Halfway Homes For U.S.-Born Kids With Undocumented Parents

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming “border czar” suggested that children who are U.S. citizens but whose parents are undocumented could be placed in a “halfway house” as part of mass deportation efforts. “As far as U.S. children, that’s going to be a difficult situation, because we’re not going to detain U.S. citizen children, which means, you know, they’re …

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Whereabouts of Venezuelan human rights attorney and her family remain unknown days after detentions
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Whereabouts of Venezuelan human rights attorney and her family remain unknown days after detentions

Associated Press  

CARACAS, Venezuela — The whereabouts of a prominent human rights attorney, her daughter and ex-husband remained unknown Monday, three days after Venezuelan authorities detained her at the airport near the capital as she and her adult child awaited a flight to Miami, setting off condemnation inside and outside the South American country. Attorneys for lawyer and activist Rocío San Miguel, …

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Grandmothers of boy critically ill after self-harming at Casuarina Prison's Unit 18 speak of torment
1 year, 2 months ago

Grandmothers of boy critically ill after self-harming at Casuarina Prison's Unit 18 speak of torment

ABC  

The grief-stricken grandmothers of a First Nations teenager clinging to life after apparently trying to take his own life inside a notorious youth detention unit say they feel like he was "sent to a big meat house and came back slaughtered". He is currently in Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in a critical but stable condition after what the government has …

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Biden must not bring back ‘baby jails’
1 year, 9 months ago

Biden must not bring back ‘baby jails’

Al Jazeera  

Family detention centres abuse human rights. Now that President Joe Biden appears to be considering the re-launch of a practice previously shuttered for gross human rights indignities, it’s worth interrogating what happens when the so-called “leader of the free world” turns its back on its principles, like liberty and the sanctity of family. So Congress paid a private prison management …

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Top Democrats warn Biden: Don’t restart family detentions
1 year, 9 months ago

Top Democrats warn Biden: Don’t restart family detentions

LA Times  

Samuel Quinoz, 27, recently arrived in Tijuana from Oaxaca, Mexico, and is hoping to get his child and partner to the United States. Top Democrats are warning President Biden against restarting the controversial practice of detaining migrant families who cross the U.S. southern border without authorization. But the internal debate — and Biden’s decision, in February, to dramatically curtail access …

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2 Pakistani brothers home after release from Guantanamo
1 year, 10 months ago

2 Pakistani brothers home after release from Guantanamo

Associated Press  

ISLAMABAD — Two Pakistani brothers held by the United States at Guantanamo Bay detention facility for two decades were freed and returned home on Friday to be reunited with their families, officials said. “We are pleased that these Pakistani nationals have finally reunited with their families,” the ministry said, adding that it had “coordinated an extensive inter-agency process to facilitate …

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Griner’s extended detention disappointing to her WNBA family
2 years, 7 months ago

Griner’s extended detention disappointing to her WNBA family

Associated Press  

New York coach Sandy Brondello was on her way to her team’s Friday morning shootaround when she heard the “disappointing” news that Russia had extended Brittney Griner’s pre-trial detention another 30 days. If possible, do something nice for a stranger today.” Griner’s agent Lindsay Kagawa Colas started posting on Twitter two weeks ago a count of the days that Griner’s …

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Judge: US must free migrant children from family detention
4 years, 6 months ago

Judge: US must free migrant children from family detention

India Today  

A federal judge on Friday ordered the release of children held with their parents in US immigration jails and denounced the Trump administration's prolonged detention of families during the coronavirus pandemic. US District Judge Dolly Gee's order applies to children held for more than 20 days at three family detention centers in Texas and Pennsylvania operated by US Immigration and …

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US judge orders ICE to free children in family detention
4 years, 6 months ago

US judge orders ICE to free children in family detention

Al Jazeera  

The judge says centres, where 124 children are being held with family, are ‘on fire’ amid the coronavirus pandemic. A federal judge has ordered the release of children held with their parents in US immigration jails and denounced the Trump administration’s prolonged detention of families during the coronavirus pandemic. The order by US District Judge Dolly Gee applies to children …

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Australia rejects UN call to release Tamil family held at Christmas Island
5 years, 3 months ago

Australia rejects UN call to release Tamil family held at Christmas Island

Deccan Chronicle  

Sydney: Australia has rejected a United Nations call to release a Tamil asylum-seeking family from offshore detention after the UN weighed in on a case that has galvanised huge public support. A Department of Home Affairs spokesperson said in a statement that the department was “aware” of the UN’s request, but the family would remain on Christmas Island while their …

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Women Are Being Denied Cancer Treatment, Psychiatric Help At ICE Detention Center
5 years, 3 months ago

Women Are Being Denied Cancer Treatment, Psychiatric Help At ICE Detention Center

Huff Post  

A storm comes in over the Karnes County Residential Center in South Texas, where some migrant women have been held for months. Dominic Bracco II/Prime for The Washington Post via Getty Images Immigrant women being held in a Texas detention center say they are being denied proper medical care ― in some cases cancer treatment ― and have become suicidal …

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Trump Wants To Detain Migrant Families Indefinitely. He Can't.
5 years, 4 months ago

Trump Wants To Detain Migrant Families Indefinitely. He Can't.

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The White House dramatically escalated its campaign to scare Central American families away from crossing the U.S. border on Wednesday, as officials announced plans to cancel the 1997 Flores settlement. If those numbers hold as the Trump administration’s new family detention policy goes into effect, ICE will fill its family detention to capacity in about three days. …

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ICE Locked Up An Ill, Pregnant Mother Of 2 And Is Trying To Deport Her
5 years, 6 months ago

ICE Locked Up An Ill, Pregnant Mother Of 2 And Is Trying To Deport Her

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to deport a severely ill pregnant mother with two children on Wednesday, even though she’s still fighting her removal order in court, the woman’s lawyer told HuffPost. Alma Sofia Centeno Santiago, 33, is being held in isolation at a New Jersey county jail that houses immigrants, despite the fact that she is …

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Whistleblower doctors decry immigrant family detention
5 years, 7 months ago

Whistleblower doctors decry immigrant family detention

CNN  

CNN — Ken Fowler/CNN Dr. Scott Allen and Dr. Pamela McPherson were used to working behind the scenes, quietly documenting the devastating things they’d seen. “Just the idea that things that we had seen would be magnified and multiplied called us to action.” In their letter to Congress last year, the doctors detailed particularly troubling cases that they said represent …

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