Sentences with phrase «including immigration detention»

There is much support for the Royal Commission to encompass a national brief, with the Greens launching a petition today, to extend its remit to all children in prison, including immigration detention.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

We also oppose provisions of the bill that expand the immigration detention system and erode the basic rights afforded to immigrants, including the provisions that allow for the indefinite detention of individuals who can not be deported to their home countries; that expedite removal proceedings or automatically imprison immigrants without providing them access to attorneys or judges; that increase detention capacity by an additional 20,000 beds to house immigrants awaiting their day in court; and that diminish the checks and balances of judicial review over immigration decisions.

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.

«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.»

On - topic questions included the timing of the effectiveness of the laws signed today and when ICE will close it's office on Rikers Island, how many people currently on Rikers Island will be covered by these laws, details of Carlos Rodriguez (who was held on Rikers Island for eight months on an ICE detainer) path to this country and his thoughts during his eight month detention, what Mayor de Blasio would like to see the federal government do about immigration and what he will do absent such action, what he would tell Republicans who think his approach is a dangerous precedent, de Blasio and Melissa Mark - Viverito's positions on municipal IDs and voting rights for non-citizens, the number of people arrested on misdemeanors and then subject to ICE detainers and whether persons arrested on felony charges must first go through the justice system before being subject to an ICE detainer.

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.

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.

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.»

She is currently conducting mixed - methods research on: 1) the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, 2) immigration detention, deportation, and the intersections of immigration and criminal law, and 3) Legally vulnerable workers including noncitizens and individuals with criminal records.

The island, a California Historical Landmark, [1] has been used for a variety of purposes, including military forts, a US Public Health Service Quarantine Station, and a US Bureau of Immigration inspection and detention facility.

A joint operation involving the Belize Police Department and the Immigration Department led to the detention of thirty - two women with origins in several Central American countries including Honduras and El Salvador.

«Meanwhile, legal aid cuts have left many vulnerable people, including those detained in immigration detention, without access to the help they need.»

Factors that can lead to prolonged detention include a history of absconding, non-compliance with immigration processes and a prolific offending history.»

These areas included immigration (save for asylum claims or work carried out for those in immigration detention); employment (except where there is a discrimination claim); education (except for Special Educational Needs work); welfare benefits (except for appeals to the Upper Tribunal and onwards); debt; clinical negligence for the majority of adults and children; and personal injury.

Our lawyers also go to court for you - in matters involving inadmissibility - including detention reviews, appeals to the Immigration and Refugee Board, Applications for Leave and for Judicial Review.

First, the report is striking in the number of concerns it raises about ill - treatment in places of detention in the UK, including inter-prisoner violence, a lack of safety in prisons, use of restraint and separation in psychiatric hospitals, solitary confinement of children and indefinite lengths of immigration detention.

Additional Resources American Bar Association Commission on Immigration American Immigration Lawyers Association Amnesty International Country Reports Asylum Pro Se Guide — English (Create by students at Stanford Law) Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, University of California, Hastings College of the Law (includes resources for gender law and asylum) Department of Justice Country Conditions Research Detention Watch Network EOIR Virtual Law Library (with BIA precedent decisions) Human Rights Watch, Country Specific Reports Human Rights Watch, Children's Rights Division Immigrant Legal Resource Center Immigration Equality (includes extensive resources for LGBT asylum claims) Immigration and Nationality Act Immigration Regulations (C.F.R. Title 8) National Immigrant Justice Center's Resources for Attorneys Representing Asylum Seekers (includes numerous free training webinars) UNHCR Guidance Report on LGBT Asylum Claims United Nations High Commission on Refugees USCIS Guidance on Adjudicating LGBT Asylum Claims University of Minnesota Human Rights Library / Refugee and Asylum Resources U.S. State Department Country Reports Women on the Run, UNHCR Report (resources for female asylum - seekers) Women's Human Rights Net Yale Law School's Refugee & Asylum Resources (includes several resources for gender - based asylum claims)

A series of barriers collectively reduce the effectiveness of initial and subsequent monthly reviews of detention sentences including: arbitrariness of decision - making in detention reviews; detainee's difficulty in gathering new evidence while in detention; standard of proof for detainees; and prohibitive release conditions: Petra Molnar and Stephanie J. Silverman, Everyday Injustices: Barriers to Access to Justice for Immigration Detainees in Canada, Refugee Survey Quarterly (2016) 35 (1): 109 - 127 [Molnar & Silverman, Everyday Injustices].

The book includes chapters on defense of juveniles, requirements for immigration applications (asylum, cancellation, etc.), immigration detainers and detention, and post-conviction relief.

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.

Updates on court processes and options for unaccompanied minors, including expedited dockets, U.S. juvenile immigration detention system, and new

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).

The work of the forum includes deaths of people in prison, police stations, immigration detention and secure mental hospitals.

Children, including juvenile foreign fishers and, where possible, their families, will not be detained in an immigration detention centre.