Sentences with phrase «of immigration detention»

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).

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.

DETENTION: S 36 The automatic deportation scheme is accompanied by a set of extremely wide powers of immigration detention, as well as powers to impose residence, reporting and occupation conditions on those who have served a period of imprisonment.

Legal 500 recommended law firm Duncan Lewis Solicitors are pleased to report the recent successful judicial review case of Ibrahim, R v SSHD where it was decided that the use of immigration detention in order to bring a prosecution for non-cooperation with removal is unlawful.

The government, in its brief, stated: «Some may believe that the 9th Circuit's vision of immigration detention is wiser or more humane, while others would disagree.

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.

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.

«We hope the Home Office will act quickly in the wake of yet another tragic death to drastically reduce the use of immigration detention, as the most recent review as well as a recent cross-party inquiry have recommended.»

.@IanDunt Last week Minister @JBrokenshire promised «significant and transformative» reform of immigration detention and yet another death.

She has also sharply criticised the use of immigration detention without a time limit, promising that Labour will deal with all cases promptly and efficiently, and allow those who are entitled to stay to do so, and to deport those who are not.

As it addresses the varied and deeply harmful problems of immigration detention, the government needs to deliver a more risk - averse approach: not waiting until vulnerable people have been damaged and re-traumatised, but taking pre-emptive action to ensure that people who've experienced such horrific abuse are not subjected to further harm.

«Ministers must take this opportunity to pursue wholesale reform and abandon the existing structure of immigration detention which has been shown to be grossly inefficient, hugely expensive and in direct contradiction of our most cherished British values of justice, liberty and compassion.»

On the issue of immigration detention she reiterated her party's pledge to end the practice of indefinite immigration detention.

Expansion of the immigration detention program would be a travesty when there are humane, fiscally responsible and proven alternatives to imprisonment that support President Bush's assertion that the vast majority of immigrants are «decent people who work hard, support their families, practice their faith and lead responsible lives.»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Under the law, within 72 hours of their capture, children from Central America must be transferred from immigration detention to the custody of the Department of Health & Human Services.

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.

Brown also signed 10 other immigration - related bills that limit the growth of detention centers, expand education services for immigrants, and extend tenant and workplace protections for undocumented people.

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.

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.

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.

«Detention and removal are essential parts of effective immigration controls.

The Chief Inspector's report also notes that by January 2011, over 1,600 foreign national prisoners were detained under immigration powers at the end of their custodial sentence pending deportation, with the average length of detention increasing from 143 days in February 2010 to 190 days in January 2011.

She pledged to completely review the immigration detention system, and especially the role of multinational firms like G4S.

In 2010, the Coalition Government finally acknowledged this was the case, and pledged to end the detention of children for immigration purposes.

One of the Coalition government's first - and best - policies was to end the detention of children in immigration removal centres.

Marcial De Leon - Aguilar, the undocumented worker at the center of a disputed immigration raid on a Rome dairy farm last week, will remain in detention, a federal magistrate ruled.

In third place is a disturbing report of a death at the Colnebrook immigration detention centre.

James Hon, the co-director of the MinKwon Center for Community Action, an organization that opposes tighter immigration enforcement, said he'd like to see programs like Stringer's, «rather than spending billions of dollars on more detentions and faster deportations for our immigrants as the Trump administration has proposed in his recent budget, not to mention an even greater amount, billions more, for a ridiculous wall.»

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.

Of those, four were successfully turned back to Indonesia, three sank at some point during the process (most passengers were rescued but two died) and the remaining five boats were transferred to an Australian - run Immigration Detention Centre for processing.

Yesterday Freedom from Torture received a message from a woman detained behind the high walls and locked doors of Yarl's Wood immigration detention centre.

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.

She highlighted the deaths of 11 detainees in 2017 and argued that «the torment faced by many individuals in the government's immigration detention system runs counter to this country's proudest traditions».

There is no available research for the UK, but there have been cases of illegal removal and immigration detention of UK nationals.

After several allegations of staff misbehaviour at immigration detention centres, we're taking the government to court to find out if G4S are classified a «high risk» supplier.

«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.»

In parliament this week, Joan Ryan MP introduced a bill, supported by politicians from all sides, which would improve immigration detention and introduce stronger safeguards for survivors of torture and other forms of violence.

The crowd was read a the names of the 19 people who have died while under custody in British immigration detention centres in the last 25 years.

A protest which started on Friday at Harmondsworth immigration detention centre has spread to three other institutions, amid signs of nationwide unrest at the deportation process

Taken from their homes in the middle of the night, or in the very early hours of the morning, when immigration enforcement knows they'll be at home, and bundled into a van, then to a detention centre, and then on a plane to a country they never knew.

It sent multiple vans full of immigration officers to people's homes in dawn raids, before separating the husbands from the wives and sending them to detention centres.

On immigration, there isn't even much to admire, outside of a commitment for a time limit to detention.

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.

SYRACUSE, NY — Marcial De Leon - Aguilar, the undocumented worker at the center of a disputed immigration raid on a Rome dairy farm last week, will remain in detention, a federal magistrate ruled today.

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.

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.

«When I was 16, my own father was deported after three - and - a-half years of being in immigration detention because he registered with NSEERs.»