Sentences with phrase «new immigration detention»

But the concerns are nevertheless very real and longstanding, ranging from the alarmingly high and entrenched levels of violence experienced by Indigenous women to punitive new immigration detention laws; from the failure to tackle homelessness in the country to national security practices that

But the concerns are nevertheless very real and longstanding, ranging from the alarmingly high and entrenched levels of violence experienced by Indigenous women to punitive new immigration detention laws; from the failure to tackle homelessness in the country to national security practices that... [more]

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The diplomats — officials in charge of New York consulates separate from United Nations missions — say they are hard pressed to explain to their governments and the news media back home why scores of people remain in detention, usually on minor immigration charges, at a time when the United States seeks the support of public opinion abroad for its war on terrorism.

Asylum at heartWe were encouraged that, on the first few days of a new government, the prime minister and his deputy declared they would end child detention for immigration purposes.

While reporting to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for a routine check - in at 26 Federal Plaza, Ragbir, executive director of the New Sanctuary Coalition of NYC — an interfaith organization that helps undocumented immigrants fight detention and deportation — was detained on Thursday morning.

As a point of clarification, there are no private state prisons in New York state, but there are several privately - run U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities, some of which are in the city.

Last week, while reporting to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for a routine check - in at 26 Federal Plaza, Ravi Ragbir, executive director of the New Sanctuary Coalition of NYC — an interfaith organization that helps undocumented immigrants ward off detention and deportation — was detained.

Terminally ill people have been handcuffed as they died in immigration detention centres, according to a devastating new report

«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.»

«We need more immigration judges, we need more immigration personnel at the border so that we can swiftly resolve these cases before children find their way to detention facilities and to other facilities as far away as New York.»

«We are relieved that Ravi Ragbir has been released from detention and reunited with his wife and community while his legal case continues,» said Steven Choi, Executive Director of the New York Immigration Coalition.

Last night, the organizer for the New Sanctuary Coalition of NYC — an interfaith organization that assists undocumented people fighting detention and deportation — asserted Immigration and Customs Enforcement picked Staten Island for raids it conducted last month because of the borough's conservative, pro-President Donald Trump inclinations.

Bill de Blasio and a host of other New York elected officials gathered in Manhattan last Thursday to protest the GEO Group, which runs the Queens Detention Facility, at 182 - 22 150th Ave., that is used for suspects who are arrested for immigration issues and awaiting trial.

Australia's offshore immigration detention program has cost the federal government at least $ 5 billion since 2012, new figures have confirmed.

National: The New York Times Magazine takes a deep look at what it's like to go through the «purgatory» of the immigration detention system.

These hugely original photographs intimately record MacIndoe's downward trajectory from professional photographer with a flourishing career to struggling opiate addict, a journey of anguish and isolation that was to culminate in an arrest for drug possession and a four - month stint in New York's notorious Riker's Island prison and five months in an American immigration detention centre before he got clean.

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.

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].

A new funding framework should be established, tied to metrics like the number of refugee claims, number of immigration detentions, and number of removal proceedings.

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

The CBSA has also started publishing statistics about immigration detention, and the number of immigration detentions has decreased under the new government, despite an increase in visitors to Canada, according to Public Safety Canada.

Speaking at a panel discussion before an audience at the American Bar Association's annual meeting in New York City, 2nd circuit judge Robert Katzmann and 9th circuit judge M. Margaret McKeown described a crisis fueled by increased enforcement and detention, bad or non-existent lawyering for immigrants facing deportation, as well as overwhelmed immigration judges and appeal judges.

the closure of the Australia's offshore immigration detention centres in Nauru and Papua New Guinea