Sentences with phrase «immigration detention facilities»

The impact of those deprivations is currently being examined by the Human Rights Commission's inquiry into the harms suffered by the 1,000 - plus children currently detained in immigration detention facilities in Australia and Nauru.

The White House wants Congress to close what it calls legal «loopholes» in the asylum process: making it possible to deport immigrants under the age of 18 back to Central America without a court hearing; allowing the government to detain children in regular, jail - style immigration detention facilities along with their parents; and tightening the standards for when an immigrant can stay in the US to pursue an asylum case.

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

At 31 March 2018, there were 1389 people in immigration detention facilities, including 1059 in immigration detention on the mainland and 330 in immigration detention on Christmas Island.

Currently, there are over 2 million people incarcerated in the 1,719 state prisons, 102 federal prisons, 942 juvenile correctional facilities, 3,283 local jails, 79 Indian Country jails, military prisons, immigration detention facilities, civil commitment centers, and prisons in U.S. territories.

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.

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 detained parents.