Sentences with phrase «immigration detention centers»

Nadeau had gotten reports of a tuberculosis outbreak among children at a federal immigration detention center in Harlingen, Texas.

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

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.

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.

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.

The city public advocate is calling on the federal government to shut down the controversial immigration detention center in Springfield Gardens and rethink its partnership with the private organization that runs it.

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.

Learn from this game by Breakthrough about living conditions in U.S. immigration detention centers and watch video interviews with former detainees and family members as you play a journalist investigating the 2007 real - world death of detainee Boubacar Bah.

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»).

In Lisa Ko's The Leavers, one of the female characters is abruptly transported to the fictional Ardsleyville immigration detention center.

As a legal fellow, she co-founded «Know Your Rights» programs at local immigration detention centers, for which she received an award from Cosmo for Latinas.

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 and deport.

But when the men returned last week, this time joined by a lawyer, they were arrested and sent to an immigration detention center.

«Should doctors boycott working in Australia's immigration detention centers?.»

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.

Perla Lopez, 18, who immigrated from Mexico, said she was held in an immigration detention center in New Mexico after being detained by Border Patrol.

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.