Sentences with phrase «from 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.

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The controversial bill not only allows officers to question a people about their residency status but also allows police chiefs, sheriffs, constables, and jail administrators to be charged with a Class A misdemeanor if they refuse to comply with a federal detention request from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

It sent multiple vans full of immigration officers to people's homes in dawn raids, before separating the husbands from the wives and sending them to detention centres.

Locally, detention policies are made by Onondaga County Sheriff Gene Conway, who has said he would comply with detainer requests from Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, though he's never received one.

«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.

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

«We are relieved that Ravi Ragbir has been released from detention and reunited with his wife and community while his legal case continues,» said Steven Choi, Executive Director of the New York Immigration Coalition.

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.

Pledging to end indefinite detention on immigration grounds, and barring private contractors including G4S and Serco from taking on contracts to run immigration services, Abbott promised Labour would introduce a more positive message.

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.

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.»

The proposal would bar the NYPD and the city Department of Correction from honoring detention orders — seeking a detainee transfer from city to federal custody over possible immigration violations — unless signed by a federal judge.

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.

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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.

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.

The future of the Biennale of Sydney (BoS) has been thrown into question after last Friday its board capitulated to pressure from participating artists to sever ties with its founding partner and major sponsor Transfield, the contractor which manages Australia's immigration detention facilities, currently on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea.

«From telecommunications to transportation, from immigration to interrogation, from detention to rendition, the war on terrorism strained the conventional framework of American law,» writes reporter Marcia CoFrom telecommunications to transportation, from immigration to interrogation, from detention to rendition, the war on terrorism strained the conventional framework of American law,» writes reporter Marcia Cofrom immigration to interrogation, from detention to rendition, the war on terrorism strained the conventional framework of American law,» writes reporter Marcia Cofrom detention to rendition, the war on terrorism strained the conventional framework of American law,» writes reporter Marcia Coyle.

As revealed in the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) green paper last November, the bill removes legal aid from most family law matters, education law, housing (except where there is a threat of homelessness), personal injury, clinical negligence, employment, immigration (except for detention cases) and social welfare law.

But the concerns are nevertheless very real and longstanding, ranging from the alarmingly high and entrenched levels of violence experienced by Indigenous women to punitive new immigration detention laws; from the failure to tackle homelessness in the country to national security practices that... [more]

But the concerns are nevertheless very real and longstanding, ranging from the alarmingly high and entrenched levels of violence experienced by Indigenous women to punitive new immigration detention laws; from the failure to tackle homelessness in the country to national security practices that

«With the Dignity Not Detention Act, we will check the growth of private immigration detention where prison corporations quite literally profit from human suffering, as we continue our work to end the unnecessary practice of jailing immigrants altogetheDetention Act, we will check the growth of private immigration detention where prison corporations quite literally profit from human suffering, as we continue our work to end the unnecessary practice of jailing immigrants altogethedetention where prison corporations quite literally profit from human suffering, as we continue our work to end the unnecessary practice of jailing immigrants altogether.»

ABOUT THIS GUIDE This guide aims to provide basic legal information to people without immigration status so that they will be able to better protect themselves from the risks of immigration arrest and detention.

Consequently, the guidance saved victims of state - sponsored torture from being held in immigration detention but failed to protect victims of torture by traffickers, terrorists and other groups.

The ruling means hundreds of people may have been unlawfully detained — Medical Justice says it receives more than 1,000 referrals from among about 30,000 people held each year in immigration detention.

Would you agree that the essential language of authority is in (1.1)(2): «The Immigration Division may order the detention of a permanent resident or a foreign national if it is satisfied that the permanent resident or the foreign national is the subject of an examination or an admissibility hearing or is subject to a removal order and that the permanent resident or the foreign national is a danger to the public or is unlikely to appear for examination, an admissibility hearing or removal from Canada.»

Immigration law varies from country to country and can be the subject of very high profile international cases relating to various topics such as the legality of detention of immigrants and the legal status of aliens without a nationality.

Recent examples of our work in discrimination law include suing an immigration detention centre for racial discrimination, challenging the police for stopping and searching people based on race, challenging discriminatory bail conditions applied to people wrongly arrested during the London riots, failing to protect a homosexual prisoner from assault by homophobic inmates and persuading a school to apologise and train relevant staff after it excluded a pupil with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

That study found that, since 2011, Canada has housed more than 200 Canadian minors in detention in Toronto's Immigration Holding Centre, alongside hundreds of formally detained non-Canadian children, and its authors recommended that Canada implement alternatives to the detention of children rather than confining them in immigration detention facilities or separating them from their detainImmigration Holding Centre, alongside hundreds of formally detained non-Canadian children, and its authors recommended that Canada implement alternatives to the detention of children rather than confining them in immigration detention facilities or separating them from their detainimmigration detention facilities or separating them from their detained parents.

The following day saw the release of a yet another report from the Human Rights Commission showing high rates of distress among children who had been held in offshore immigration detention.

Yet this week, the Federal Government and Opposition united to oppose the reporting of abuse of children in immigration detention, amongst things, prompting this series of tweets from Dr Andrew Weatherall (a doctor who cares for children):

From the challenges that face a person with a disability seeking independent living, through to immigration detention policy, the promotion of human rights must address both individual need and systemic change.

Asylum seekers from Sri Lanka or Afghanistan who arrive by boat on or after 9 April 2010 will be subjected to mandatory immigration detention for the duration of the suspension.