Sentences with phrase «at immigration detention»

Deaths at immigration detention centres often spark protests and riots at that centre and others.

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.

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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.

The diplomats — officials in charge of New York consulates separate from United Nations missions — say they are hard pressed to explain to their governments and the news media back home why scores of people remain in detention, usually on minor immigration charges, at a time when the United States seeks the support of public opinion abroad for its war on terrorism.

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.

The Chief Inspector's report also notes that by January 2011, over 1,600 foreign national prisoners were detained under immigration powers at the end of their custodial sentence pending deportation, with the average length of detention increasing from 143 days in February 2010 to 190 days in January 2011.

Marcial De Leon - Aguilar, the undocumented worker at the center of a disputed immigration raid on a Rome dairy farm last week, will remain in detention, a federal magistrate ruled.

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

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.

Asylum at heartWe were encouraged that, on the first few days of a new government, the prime minister and his deputy declared they would end child detention for immigration purposes.

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

Taken from their homes in the middle of the night, or in the very early hours of the morning, when immigration enforcement knows they'll be at home, and bundled into a van, then to a detention centre, and then on a plane to a country they never knew.

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

SYRACUSE, NY — Marcial De Leon - Aguilar, the undocumented worker at the center of a disputed immigration raid on a Rome dairy farm last week, will remain in detention, a federal magistrate ruled today.

The government has already been accused of deserting its promise to end the detention of children in immigration centres — a change that would have signaled one of the Lib Dem's few influences on policy and demonstrated that the government was at last sympathetic to the cause of asylum seekers.

While reporting to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for a routine check - in at 26 Federal Plaza, Ragbir, executive director of the New Sanctuary Coalition of NYC — an interfaith organization that helps undocumented immigrants fight detention and deportation — was detained on Thursday morning.

Last week, while reporting to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for a routine check - in at 26 Federal Plaza, Ravi Ragbir, executive director of the New Sanctuary Coalition of NYC — an interfaith organization that helps undocumented immigrants ward off detention and deportation — was detained.

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.

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.

«Some of the practices employed at the Dungavel detention centre in Scotland, including the detention of children, have been absolutely shameful and show why we need a new direction when it comes to asylum and immigration policy.»

The detention of children at immigration centres is distressing and harmful, according to the children's commission.

Immigration detention is once more in the news and was debated in Parliament this week, this time because of a hunger strike by women held at Yarls» Wood, the detention centre where abuse by guards was filmed undercover for Channel 4 in 2015.

«We need more immigration judges, we need more immigration personnel at the border so that we can swiftly resolve these cases before children find their way to detention facilities and to other facilities as far away as New York.»

Francisco Moya (D - Queens), speaking at a rally in midtown Manhattan with dozens of immigration and affordable housing activists, said he would soon introduce a bill to require the state to divest its more than $ 178 billion pension fund from corporations that back Trump's agenda — including banks that finance immigration detention centers, and contractors involved with the proposed U.S. - Mexico border wall.

Stepping in at the weekly Commons clash while David Cameron is in the States, Clegg said the government would make an announcement «shortly» on the closure of the controversial immigration detention centre.

And why did he die in detention at a British immigration detention centre?

Bill de Blasio and a host of other New York elected officials gathered in Manhattan last Thursday to protest the GEO Group, which runs the Queens Detention Facility, at 182 - 22 150th Ave., that is used for suspects who are arrested for immigration issues and awaiting trial.

Australia's offshore immigration detention program has cost the federal government at least $ 5 billion since 2012, new figures have confirmed.

National: The New York Times Magazine takes a deep look at what it's like to go through the «purgatory» of the immigration detention system.

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«The arrest and detention of Romulo Avelica - Gonzalez by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers as he was dropping off his 13 - year - old daughter at Academia Avance charter school, provoked fear and turmoil that plagued California's communities and distracted students from what matters most: their learning.

Immigration detention cost the Government # 125m in the year ending 31 March 2016 at a cost of around # 34,000 per detainee per year.

Prior to joining the ILRC, Lena was a Soros Justice Fellow at the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, where she supported local campaigns against ICE detainers, provided training and education on the detention and deportation system, and litigated constitutional rights cases related to ICE enforcement.

Additional Resources American Bar Association Commission on Immigration American Immigration Lawyers Association Amnesty International Country Reports Asylum Pro Se Guide — English (Create by students at Stanford Law) Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, University of California, Hastings College of the Law (includes resources for gender law and asylum) Department of Justice Country Conditions Research Detention Watch Network EOIR Virtual Law Library (with BIA precedent decisions) Human Rights Watch, Country Specific Reports Human Rights Watch, Children's Rights Division Immigrant Legal Resource Center Immigration Equality (includes extensive resources for LGBT asylum claims) Immigration and Nationality Act Immigration Regulations (C.F.R. Title 8) National Immigrant Justice Center's Resources for Attorneys Representing Asylum Seekers (includes numerous free training webinars) UNHCR Guidance Report on LGBT Asylum Claims United Nations High Commission on Refugees USCIS Guidance on Adjudicating LGBT Asylum Claims University of Minnesota Human Rights Library / Refugee and Asylum Resources U.S. State Department Country Reports Women on the Run, UNHCR Report (resources for female asylum - seekers) Women's Human Rights Net Yale Law School's Refugee & Asylum Resources (includes several resources for gender - based asylum claims)

Anthony Navaneelan, a counsel in the Refugee Law Office at Legal Aid Ontario, told attendees at a detention panel at the Canadian Bar Association's Immigration Law Conference in June that he believed that two years maximum would be an appropriate period of detention for immigrants.

«I've been practising in this area for a long time,» says Jackman, but it wasn't until she assisted in Ogiamien v. Ontario, 2016 ONSC 3080 — a case involving two inmates, one of them an immigration detainee since 2013, who successfully argued that their Charter rights were violated by lockdowns at a Milton jail last year — that she realized «there's no structure to the detention system.

Speaking at a panel discussion before an audience at the American Bar Association's annual meeting in New York City, 2nd circuit judge Robert Katzmann and 9th circuit judge M. Margaret McKeown described a crisis fueled by increased enforcement and detention, bad or non-existent lawyering for immigrants facing deportation, as well as overwhelmed immigration judges and appeal judges.

An underlying question for participants was how much racism, at an institutional level and in the high levels of public support for tough approaches to asylum seekers, has to do with the treatment of children in immigration detention and if it helps in advocacy to raise racism as an issue.