Sentences with phrase «immigration detention policy»
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.
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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.
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.
One of the Coalition government's first - and best - policies was to end the detention of children in immigration removal centres.
«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.»
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.
The government has already been accused of deserting its promise to end the detention of children in immigration centres — a change that would have signaled one of the Lib Dem's few influences on policy and demonstrated that the government was at last sympathetic to the cause of asylum seekers.
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.
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.
«Some of the practices employed at the Dungavel detention centre in Scotland, including the detention of children, have been absolutely shameful and show why we need a new direction when it comes to asylum and immigration policy.»
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.
Backers of the legislation, including City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, lauded it as a way to end warrantless detention of immigrants that they argued are unconstitutional, and as a way to keep city families together and reform broken immigration policies.
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.
Lena is a national expert on immigration enforcement by local police, and she has spent years supporting organizers and lawyers around the country to fight unfair and often illegal detention of immigrants, and to push for pro-immigrant local policies.
These policies are consistent with the provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), which provide for mandatory detention of such aliens and allow me [Secretary John Kelly, DHS] or my designee to exercise discretionary parole authority pursuant to section 212 (d)(5) of the INA only on a case - by - case basis, and only where parole is in the interest of the United States for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit.
The Committee urges the State party to reconsider its policy of mandatory detention of «unlawful non-citizens» with a view to instituting alternative mechanisms of maintaining an orderly immigration process.
We have also highlighted issues such as discriminatory police practices, counterterrorism, immigration detention and multicultural policy.