"Immigration detainees" refers to individuals who are being held or detained by immigration authorities due to issues related to their immigration status or citizenship. These individuals are usually awaiting legal proceedings or decisions, such as the outcome of their asylum application or deportation process.
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Judges have joined barristers, solicitors and a range of specialists in airing a catalogue of concerns over the Government's treatment
of immigration detainees in a report published this week that condemns inflexible Home Office rules and target - obsessed officials.
Suffolk County sheriff officials, trying to ease concerns the county jail could house hundreds of
federal immigration detainees, told county lawmakers they so far have held only one to three such detainees at a time and only those already arrested on local crime.
«The jury heard that two of those responsible for Rubel's welfare had not received training in resuscitation techniques for over ten years, and none of them could remember much of what they had been taught about working
with immigration detainees.
In Washington, one of the two lawsuits was filed on September 9, 2017
by immigration detainees against the Company in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington.
In California, a class - action lawsuit was filed on December 19, 2017 by
immigration detainees against the Company in the United States District Court Eastern Division of the Central District of California.
Private prison companies have been preparing for such a moment by shifting their focus to ICE facilities, many of which are already run by for - profit entities and
house immigration detainees, according to Petrella.
«The government must immediately clarify its policy position in relation to the detention of
immigration detainees who are seriously ill and refuse food and fluids.»
From the 10 - K: «On October 22, 2014, former
civil immigration detainees at the Aurora Immigration Detention Center filed a class action lawsuit against the Company in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado (the «Court»).
Now, this pattern of votes has combined to repeal the Howard government's hateful practice, inherited from the Keating Labor government, of
charging immigration detainees for their own imprisonment.
In that case, the court's ruling
allowed immigration detainees to apply to the Superior Court of Justice for habeas corpus to challenge their incarceration.
Our organisation, Bail
for Immigration Detainees (BID) has now launched a legal challenge against the Cabinet Office for its failure to designate G4S a «high risk» supplier in the wake of these successive instances of serious and repeated failings.
Suffolk County sheriff officials, trying to ease concerns the county jail could house hundreds of
federal immigration detainees, told county lawmakers Thursday they so far have held only one to three such detainees at a time and only those already arrested on local crime.
The Liberal Democrat MP Evan Harris, whose constituency covers the Kidlington detention centre, said the escape was the second major incident since foreign national ex-prisoners were mixed
with immigration detainees, and also since management of the centre was transferred to the American company GEO.
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.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) will be ending its contracts with private prisons, but watchdog groups point out that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will continue to use them for
immigration detainees.
A resolution by the county's Board of Freeholders, the equivalent of a county legislature, established «an ad hoc committee of the board» alongside medical and professional staff to probe the medical care given
the immigration detainee, a county spokesman said.
On 18 September, Goldsmith Chambers collaborated with Bail for
Immigration Detainees (BID) to hold a seminar on unlawful detention.
Prior to coming to the Bar Kezia worked as an immigration advisor at the Refugee Legal Centre and Bail for
Immigration Detainees (BID) where she focused on casework contributing to the campaign to end the detention of children.
Judges, barristers, solicitors and immigration specialists have voiced a string of concerns about the government's treatment of
immigration detainees.
The petitioner is asking that the immediate custodian rule, which applies to normal federal prisoners, be ignored in favor of a rule which would provide more equal justice to
all immigration detainees.
It would be more diplomatic and more accurate to say instead that «the immediate custodian rule, which applies to normal federal prisoners, does not now and should not extend to
immigration detainees.»
In addition, the prose in the second example is at times inopportune: «The petitioner is asking the immediate custodian rule, which applies to normal federal prisoners, be ignored in favor of a rule which would provide more equal justice to
all immigration detainees.»
Agencies such as Bail for
Immigration Detainees, the Free Representation Unit and the National Centre for Domestic Violence lead by example in how to maximise trainee input.
Sarah also appears in the immigration Tribunals, including pro bono representation for the charity organisation Bail for
Immigration Detainees (BiD).
Charlotte currently volunteers for Bail for
Immigration Detainees.
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).
«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.