Sentences with phrase «harmondsworth immigration detention»

Under the law, within 72 hours of their capture, children from Central America must be transferred from immigration detention to the custody of the Department of Health & Human Services.

A well - known journalist was arrested while covering a protest against immigration detention, then was handed over to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities for deportation.

Today, it runs more than 60 facilities, from state prisons and jails to federal immigration detention centers.

At 31 March 2018, there were 1389 people in immigration detention facilities, including 1059 in immigration detention on the mainland and 330 in immigration detention on Christmas Island.

Without legal status, many families fear that they will be arrested and forced to endure harsh conditions in immigration detention centers until they're bailed out, can pay for a return flight, or are resettled.

We also oppose provisions of the bill that expand the immigration detention system and erode the basic rights afforded to immigrants, including the provisions that allow for the indefinite detention of individuals who can not be deported to their home countries; that expedite removal proceedings or automatically imprison immigrants without providing them access to attorneys or judges; that increase detention capacity by an additional 20,000 beds to house immigrants awaiting their day in court; and that diminish the checks and balances of judicial review over immigration decisions.

Expansion of the immigration detention program would be a travesty when there are humane, fiscally responsible and proven alternatives to imprisonment that support President Bush's assertion that the vast majority of immigrants are «decent people who work hard, support their families, practice their faith and lead responsible lives.»

But when the men returned last week, this time joined by a lawyer, they were arrested and sent to an immigration detention center.

In fourth place is an anonymous account from a guard in an immigration detention centre who explained why working in a system which detains people who have never committed a crime, keeps him up at night.

Over 50 immigration detainees — people who have committed no crime and had no trial — are held in the prison rather than in immigration detention centres.

She pledged to completely review the immigration detention system, and especially the role of multinational firms like G4S.

On the issue of immigration detention she reiterated her party's pledge to end the practice of indefinite immigration detention.

But six years on, although the numbers are lower than before, the government is still locking up unaccompanied children in immigration detention who it mistakenly thought were adults.

In third place is a disturbing report of a death at the Colnebrook immigration detention centre.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that people held in immigration detention, sometimes for years, are not entitled to periodic hearings to decide whether they may be released on bail.

In this case, those harmed included survivors of torture who came to the UK seeking asylum, only to face re-traumatisation from being locked up in immigration detention centres.

Thompson's problems echo those experienced by Paulette Wilson, who was sent last year to an immigration detention centre and threatened with deportation to Jamaica, despite having been in Britain for 50 years.

Of those, four were successfully turned back to Indonesia, three sank at some point during the process (most passengers were rescued but two died) and the remaining five boats were transferred to an Australian - run Immigration Detention Centre for processing.

Yesterday Freedom from Torture received a message from a woman detained behind the high walls and locked doors of Yarl's Wood immigration detention centre.

She highlighted the deaths of 11 detainees in 2017 and argued that «the torment faced by many individuals in the government's immigration detention system runs counter to this country's proudest traditions».

There is no available research for the UK, but there have been cases of illegal removal and immigration detention of UK nationals.

Children with citizenship may be removed with their parents, or separated from them through immigration detention.

After several allegations of staff misbehaviour at immigration detention centres, we're taking the government to court to find out if G4S are classified a «high risk» supplier.

In the year to June 30th, 2017, 27,821 people entered immigration detention in the UK.

«Ministers must take this opportunity to pursue wholesale reform and abandon the existing structure of immigration detention which has been shown to be grossly inefficient, hugely expensive and in direct contradiction of our most cherished British values of justice, liberty and compassion.»

As it addresses the varied and deeply harmful problems of immigration detention, the government needs to deliver a more risk - averse approach: not waiting until vulnerable people have been damaged and re-traumatised, but taking pre-emptive action to ensure that people who've experienced such horrific abuse are not subjected to further harm.

In parliament this week, Joan Ryan MP introduced a bill, supported by politicians from all sides, which would improve immigration detention and introduce stronger safeguards for survivors of torture and other forms of violence.

The crowd was read a the names of the 19 people who have died while under custody in British immigration detention centres in the last 25 years.

A protest which started on Friday at Harmondsworth immigration detention centre has spread to three other institutions, amid signs of nationwide unrest at the deportation process

Last October she was sent to Yarl's Wood immigration detention centre.

They want to introduce a time limit for immigration detention.

Authorities at Morton Hall immigration detention centre, where the 26 - year - old was held, said he had committed suicide.

«Immigration detention is a vital tool in helping ensure those with no right to remain in the UK are returned to their home country,» she said.

«When I was 16, my own father was deported after three - and - a-half years of being in immigration detention because he registered with NSEERs.»

Shadow home secretary writes to Home Office to ask why she has been denied visit to the immigration detention centre

She has also sharply criticised the use of immigration detention without a time limit, promising that Labour will deal with all cases promptly and efficiently, and allow those who are entitled to stay to do so, and to deport those who are not.

An all - party parliamentary committee has recommended that immigration detention should be limited to a maximum of 28 days and said rape survivors and pregnant women should no longer be detained.

«Detention is only supposed to be used when there's no reasonable alternative possible,» Hamilton tells me on the phone from Morton Hall immigration detention centre, where he's been for the last nine days.

An unclear or incomplete definition is likely to lead to more torture survivors being wrongly locked up in immigration detention.

Shadow immigration minister Damien Green said: «Until the government gets a grip on the prison overcrowding crisis, the problems will continue to spill over and cause dangerous tensions in immigration detention centres.»

Terminally ill people have been handcuffed as they died in immigration detention centres, according to a devastating new report

.@IanDunt Last week Minister @JBrokenshire promised «significant and transformative» reform of immigration detention and yet another death.

Speaking at an urgent Commons debate in the wake of the death, Yvette Cooper said there had been worrying reports of poor health service provision and sexual assault at the Serco - run immigration detention centre in recent years.

This year there have been two deaths in immigration detention centres.

Some 26 asylum seekers escaped from Campsfield House Immigration Detention Centre near Oxford on Saturday after starting a fire to distract staff.

It's hard to report on immigration detention centres.

«We hope the Home Office will act quickly in the wake of yet another tragic death to drastically reduce the use of immigration detention, as the most recent review as well as a recent cross-party inquiry have recommended.»

Democratic 2016 frontrunner Hillary Clinton also spoke at the conference, and she pledged that if elected, she would advance President Barack Obama's policies on immigration, particularly those impacting childhood arrivals and parents of citizens and legal residents, and go a step further by closing private immigration detention centers.

Yarl's Wood, and other immigration detention centres like it, have been a source of criticism and controversy in the UK for years.

It's not hard to see why immigration detention has a devastating effect on people.