Sentences with phrase «for immigration detention»

release human rights based inspection standards for immigration detention facilities in conjunction with the Commonwealth Ombudsman and Attorney - General's Department

They also are not committing to ceasing to use provincial maximum - security jails for immigration detention.

However, Schwarz said, Congress has funded a minimum of 34,000 beds a day for immigration detention, and 62 percent are in facilities run by private contractors.

They want to introduce a time limit for immigration detention.

Not exact matches

US immigration lawyers conducted free legal workshops for the group, warning them they face possible separation from their children and detention for many months.

While the CCA declares on its website that it doesn't lobby for policies that determine «the basis for or duration of an individual's incarceration or detention,» the Justice Policy Institute has documented several pieces of federal legislation the CCA lobbied on in recent years, including funding related to private prisons and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention.

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.

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 dimmigration detention, then was handed over to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities for dImmigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities for deportation.

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.

In Jarrod's home country, immigration and asylum has long been a source of political debate, and the pastor has made a name for himself by opposing the draconian detention policies of the Australian government.

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.

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.

In 2010, the Coalition Government finally acknowledged this was the case, and pledged to end the detention of children for immigration purposes.

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.

James Hon, the co-director of the MinKwon Center for Community Action, an organization that opposes tighter immigration enforcement, said he'd like to see programs like Stringer's, «rather than spending billions of dollars on more detentions and faster deportations for our immigrants as the Trump administration has proposed in his recent budget, not to mention an even greater amount, billions more, for a ridiculous wall.»

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.

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.

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

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.

On immigration, there isn't even much to admire, outside of a commitment for a time limit to detention.

Labour first suggested it would back the campaign for a time limit on detention last month but the party's immigration initiative today — which otherwise is full of «tough on immigration» policies — confirms how the party will approach the issue.

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.

«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 nDetention 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 ndetention centre, where he's been for the last nine days.

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.

ATHENS (Reuters)- Greece opened its first purpose - built detention centre for illegal migrants on Sunday in Athens, a week before a national election where illegal immigration has emerged as a key issue.

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

We will end the detention of children for immigration purposes.

On - topic questions included the timing of the effectiveness of the laws signed today and when ICE will close it's office on Rikers Island, how many people currently on Rikers Island will be covered by these laws, details of Carlos Rodriguez (who was held on Rikers Island for eight months on an ICE detainer) path to this country and his thoughts during his eight month detention, what Mayor de Blasio would like to see the federal government do about immigration and what he will do absent such action, what he would tell Republicans who think his approach is a dangerous precedent, de Blasio and Melissa Mark - Viverito's positions on municipal IDs and voting rights for non-citizens, the number of people arrested on misdemeanors and then subject to ICE detainers and whether persons arrested on felony charges must first go through the justice system before being subject to an ICE detainer.

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.

Democratic lawmakers are backing bills that would block the use of state and local facilities for enforcing federal immigration policies and limit the detention of individuals based on immigration - related issues.

Last night, the organizer for the New Sanctuary Coalition of NYC — an interfaith organization that assists undocumented people fighting detention and deportation — asserted Immigration and Customs Enforcement picked Staten Island for raids it conducted last month because of the borough's conservative, pro-President Donald Trump inclinations.

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.

Another clause calls for state and local police «to perform the functions of immigration officers in relation to the investigation, apprehension, or detention of aliens» in the country.

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.»

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.

Although immigration detention is for administrative purposes (to process an asylum application or to facilitate removal from the UK), detainees and staff both view it as punitive, they add.

A spokesman for the Immigration and Refugee Board told the Associated Press that a detention review hearing has been scheduled for Thursday.

Even players who attempt to avoid trouble with the law can be sent to an immigration detention center for minor infractions — a possibility confronted by legal as well as illegal U.S. immigrants.

After HGSE, I plan to continue working as an advocate for reform of the U.S. immigration system and the elimination of immigration detention centers.

Americans for Immigrant Justice Non-profit law firm that champions the rights of unaccompanied immigrant children; advocates for survivors of trafficking and domestic violence; serves as a watchdog on immigration detention practices and policies; and speaks for immigrant groups who have particular and compelling claims to justice.

She is currently conducting mixed - methods research on: 1) the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, 2) immigration detention, deportation, and the intersections of immigration and criminal law, and 3) Legally vulnerable workers including noncitizens and individuals with criminal records.

«County Commissioner Mike Yoder, a centrist Republican torn between his Trump - voting constituency and his own track record of supporting immigration reform, is one of three commissioners who would have voted for or against the detention center.

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Many children were held in crowded detention centers while the U.S. Congress looked to act on an immigration bill with potential ramifications for future waves of migrants.

The island, a California Historical Landmark, [1] has been used for a variety of purposes, including military forts, a US Public Health Service Quarantine Station, and a US Bureau of Immigration inspection and detention facility.

29 October 2010: Met up with other travel bloggers and visited the Immigration Detention Center where I met with a Pakistani refugee for an hour.

These hugely original photographs intimately record MacIndoe's downward trajectory from professional photographer with a flourishing career to struggling opiate addict, a journey of anguish and isolation that was to culminate in an arrest for drug possession and a four - month stint in New York's notorious Riker's Island prison and five months in an American immigration detention centre before he got clean.

Adequate legal aid for advice and representation for those held in immigration detention to challenge the loss of their liberty

Commenting on immigration detention, Chair of the Bar Andrew Langdon QC said: «Many people are surprised to learn that individuals can be locked up indefinitely in prison conditions, not for committing a criminal offence but for administrative convenience whilst their immigration status is decided or arrangements are made for their removal.