'A Broken System' - ICE

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Immigrant Detainee Rights Are Routinely, Systematically Violated, New Report Finds

7-28-09
NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER
Press Release/Report

Excerpt:
“Though the detainees are accused of civil immigration charges, there is nothing civil about our detention centers,” said Karen Tumlin, co–author of the report and a staff attorney at NILC. “These centers, where people are detained for months and often years at a time, often fail to provide people with their fundamental rights: access to loved ones, the basic materials needed to research and prepare their cases, or even a simple explanation of their rights while within the immigrant detention system.”

Press Release:
http://www.nilc.org/brokensyspr.html

Report:
http://www.nilc.org/document.html?id=9

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JAILED WITHOUT JUSTICE

From Amnesty International:

http://www.amnestyusa.org/immigrant-det ... id=1641031

IMMIGRANT DETENTION

Immigration is growing and increasingly visible. Immigrants and their families carry all their human rights with them when they move. But undocumented immigrants often live in the shadows and at heightened risk of human rights violations. Amnesty International calls for immigrants to be treated with full respect for their human rights and human dignity.

"JAILED WITHOUT JUSTICE"

On March 25, Amnesty International released a new report "Jailed without Justice" that exposes the immigration detention system in the United States as broken and unnecessarily costly.

Over 30,000 immigrants are detained every day. This is triple the number detained just ten years ago. Immigrants can be detained for months or years without any meaningful judicial review - this despite international human rights standards requiring judicial review.

It costs about $95 per day to detain someone, while effective alternatives only cost $12 per day. These more affordable alternatives are often not considered and the use of such programs varies greatly region to region.

READ THE: Executive Summary | Key Findings | Full Report (PDF)

Urge the Department of Homeland Security to fix this broken system

FOCUS ACTION

Make Detention Standards Enforceable and Use Alternatives to Detention!

Amnesty International is calling on the Department of Homeland Security to make U.S. immigration detention standards enforceable, and to use alternatives to detention in a meaningful way. If the government chooses to detain an immigrant, that person must be held in conditions that meet both domestic and international standards, and before a person is detained, all available alternatives to detention must be considered in each individual case.

take action now »

http://www.amnestyusa.org/immigrant-det ... id=1641031

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Frontline Video from PBS + News:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline ... detention/

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From their website:

"The three largest corporations with stakes in immigration detention today are Corrections Corporations of America (CCA), the GEO Group, Inc., and the Management and Training Corporation (MTC). In 2010, CCA and GEO reported annual revenues of 1.69 billion and 1.17 billion respectively, but because neither the corporations nor ICE make the necessary data publicly available, it is so far not possible to determine what percentage of these profits are attributable to ICE contracts."

http://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/

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From ALTERNA'S website:

As a co-founding member of Georgia Detention Watch, Alterna organizes humanitarian visitations to the men detained at the Stewart Detention Center in rural southwest Georgia.

The Stewart Detention Center, owned and operated by Corrections Corporation of America, is the largest immigrant detention center in the United States. Alterna and Georgia Detention Watch have long monitored this facility, documenting alleged violations of human rights and detention standards and organizing vigils remembering the detainees trapped there and Roberto Martinez Medina who died while detained there.

Important links on immigration detention:

•Alterna is a founding member of Georgia Detention Watch.
•Alterna is a member of Detention Watch Network.
•Alterna is a lead partner in Detention Watch Network’s Dignity not Detention campaign.
•The Business of Detention: Cracking down on immigration and locking up profits
VIDEO: Unjust and Unwarranted – The reality of immigration detention in America

VIDEO: Footage from 2007 vigil at the Stewart Detention Center

VIDEO: Footage from 2009 vigil at the Stewart Detention Center

VIDEO: Footage from 2010 vigil at the Stewart Detention Center

http://www.alternacommunity.com/about/v ... detention/

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9-6-12
USA TODAY (Video)
By Nicholas Riccardi
Associated Press

Excerpt:
But the U.S. Supreme Court has laid a legal minefield that Arizona now must navigate when the critical provision takes effect. The clause, one of the few significant ones that the high court left standing in a June ruling, requires all Arizona police officers to check the immigration status of people they stop while enforcing other laws and suspect are in the country illegally.

Go to:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/sto ... 57626780/1

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Interactive map:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline ... tion-boom/

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Tan and Lin: Curtailing Immigration Prison System Can Reduce Spending Without Hurting Public Safety

1-18-13
ROLL CALL - DC
By Michael Tan and Joanne Lin

Excerpt:
Americans do not need — and can no longer afford — immigration prisons for people who do not need to be locked up. Congress and the administration should stop wasting taxpayer money on detention; that will help ensure that our detention dollars are spent in a smart, prudent and humane way.

Go to:
http://www.rollcall.com/news/tan_and_li ... 833-1.html