Detention Watch Network: New Report: DWN & Stanford Law School Policy Brief: Community-Based Alternatives to Immigration Detention
Stanford Law School's Immigrants' Rights Clinic is an initiative enabling students to represent individual immigrants facing deportation and partake in multidisciplinary advocacy on behalf of immigrants' rights organizations.
Women's Refugee Commission: New Report: Migrant women & children at risk: In custody in Arizona
This report by the Women's Refugee Commission outlines findings from its study of the treatment of women and children in the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) system in Arizona, presenting key findings and recommendations to improving conditions for vulnerable migrants.
Immigration Detention Workshop at the People's Global Action in Mexico
The IDC will be running a workshop on immigration detention during the People's Global Action in Mexico City, November 4th, 2010, 12.30-2pm. For details, please e-mail [email protected]
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Global Detention Project: US Policy & Legal Framework - Working Paper
The Global Detention Project has released a working paper discussing US immigration policy and legal framework.
Human Rights Watch: USA: New report: Deportation by default: Mental disability, unfair hearings & indefinite detention in US immigration system
Human Rights Watch has released a new report detailing how immigrants with mental disabilities are often unjustifiably detained in the US immigration system for years, sometimes with no legal limits.
Human Rights Watch: USA: Podcast regarding new HRW report & additional interview with former detainee
Human Rights Watch has highlighted the concerning reality for people with mental disabilities who face unlawful deportation in the US immigration system, featuring an interview with Luis, a detainee suffering from schizophrenia and denied access to his medication while in detention.
Breakthrough USA: restorefairness.org: Gutierrez to unveil immigration reform while enforcement measures on the rise
"Tomorrow, December 15th, at 12:30 pm, Congressman Luis Gutiérrez (D-IL) will officially unveil his immigration reform bill to the U.S. House of Representatives–'Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America’s Security and Prosperity Act of 2009.'
Details of the bill are yet unknown. However, in October and November, he spoke persuasively about protecting American and immigrant workers, providing enough visas to diminish undocumented immigration, strengthening border security, keeping families together as well as the DREAM Act and agJobs."
USA HRW: New Report: Jailing Refugees
Human Rights Watch has released a new report examining the arbitrary detention of refugees for failing to file for lawful permanent resident status in the US, despite the US immigration officials already conducting a thorough vetting process when they were recognised as refugees.
USA: LIRS: Lutherans Continue to Call for Fair & Humane Immigration Reform
The Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS) continued their call for fair and humane immigration reform at a White House meeting held on August 20, 2009, hosted by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
President Barack Obama closed the session with an offering of hope for those seeking reform: "We need sensible and humane immigration reform that reflects our nation of laws and of immigrants".
IDC & Sin Fronteras: Article: Piden a Mexico mayor proteccion a menores migrantes (Spanish)
En México, los centros de detención migratorios operan sin tomar en cuenta las necesidades especiales de protección de las niñas, niños y adolescentes migrantes, solicitantes de asilo y víctimas de trata de personas.
Así lo indicaron la Coalición Internacional contra la Detención y la institución asistencia privada Sin Fronteras, que en el marco del Día Universal del Niño que se conmemora el 20 de noviembre, hicieron un llamado a países como México para garantizar los derechos de los infantes, sobre todo los que se encuentran en condiciones de vulnerabilidad como los migrantes.
Click here to read full story from eluniversal.com.mx