Sentences with phrase «expanding immigration detention»

Trump's aggressive immigration enforcement agenda includes expanding immigration detention, building a wall along the Mexican border and temporarily blocked executive orders barring entry to people from Muslim - majority countries and withholding funding for so - called «sanctuary cities.»

That agenda has included temporarily - blocked executive orders barring entry to people from Muslim - majority countries and withholding funding to so - called «sanctuary cities» for undocumented immigrants, a proposal to build a wall along the Mexican border, expanding immigration detention and apprehension of wanted foreign nationals in and outside civil and criminal courtrooms.

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.

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Brown also signed 10 other immigration - related bills that limit the growth of detention centers, expand education services for immigrants, and extend tenant and workplace protections for undocumented people.

Private prison companies also operate private immigration detention centers, which house as many as 65 percent of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees, and it is expected that the White House will expand the use of those prisons and private detention facilities to house immigrants it intends to hold immigration detention centers, which house as many as 65 percent of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees, and it is expected that the White House will expand the use of those prisons and private detention facilities to house immigrants it intends to hold Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees, and it is expected that the White House will expand the use of those prisons and private detention facilities to house immigrants it intends to hold and deport.

He has since worked on unlawful detention claims and claims against the police and is keen to expand his immigration law practice.

Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Ralph Goodale announced last August an investment of $ 138 million to improve and minimize the use of immigration detention, including expanding alternatives to detention and strengthening partnerships with the Red Cross and United Nations (which in 2015 issued a report saying that Canada's treatment of immigration detainees was cruel and unusual and resulted in arbitrary detention).