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10/20/2011
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Ending The Laws That Fuel Mass Detention and Deportation

By Judy Rabinovitz, Immigrants' Rights Project at 3:00pm

The Department of Homeland Security assumes that mass detention is the key to immigration enforcement. But in fact, our detention system locks up thousands of immigrants unnecessarily every year, exposing detainees to brutal and inhumane conditions of confinement at massive costs to American taxpayers. Throughout the next two weeks, check back daily for posts about the costs of immigration detention, both human and fiscal, and what needs to be done to ensure fair and humane policy.

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03/28/2012
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Lampooning Immigration Jails While Exploiting the War on Women: Does the House Immigration Subcommitee Have Any Standards of Decency?

By Chris Rickerd, ACLU Washington Legislative Office at 2:20pm

This afternoon, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement is holding a hearing called "Holiday on ICE: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's New Immigration Detention Standards." (webcast here, ACLU statement here). The hearing's title and premise insult the U.S. Constitution by denigrating Immigration and Customs Enforcement's belated attempt to introduce basic, constitutionally required standards of care for the nearly 400,000 people held annually in immigration detention facilities. These men and women are detained for alleged civil, not criminal, immigration violations; many of them have U.S. citizen children and other relatives.

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11/02/2011
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Ending Immigration Detention in America

By Molly Lauterback, Immigrants' Rights Project at 2:58pm

Why is it we are locking up record numbers of immigrants, at tremendous cost to families, communities and taxpayers, with little gain to public safety?

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10/21/2011
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"I Was Scared for My Life": Trapped in Detention With a Mental Disability

By Sarah Mehta, Fellow, Immigrants' Rights Project, ACLU at 4:23pm

Thousands of immigrant detainees with mental disabilities are housed in remote detention facilities around the country, far from professional medical services and the contact and care of their families.

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10/19/2011
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The Tragic Costs of Immigration Detention

By Michael Tan, Staff Attorney, Immigrants' Rights Project, ACLU at 11:12am

This week, the ACLU Blog of Rights launched a 10-day blog series about the costs of immigration detention, both human and fiscal, and what needs to be done to ensure fair and humane policy.

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10/17/2011
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Lost in Detention

By Elizabeth Beresford, ACLU at 5:35pm

On Tuesday, October 18, Frontline takes a penetrating look at the Obama administration's immigration policies and the hidden world of immigration detention.

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10/28/2011
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Expanded Immigration Detention: Locking Up Those Yearning to Breathe Free

By Chris Rickerd, ACLU Washington Legislative Office at 3:11pm

If Rep. Lamar Smith's (R-Texas) bill passes, has his way, a massive expansion of the immigration detention system will take place.

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10/27/2011
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Locked Up with No End in Sight

By Ahilan Arulanantham, ACLU of Southern California at 3:19pm

Rev. Raymond Soeoth spent 2 1/2 years in immigration detention because our government would not give him a 15-minute bond hearing before a judge.

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10/24/2011
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Immigration Detention: A Death Sentence for Far Too Many

By Will Matthews, ACLU of Northern California at 2:35pm

Being needlessly detained should never turn into a death sentence.

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10/18/2011
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Lost in Immigration Detention

By Elizabeth Beresford, ACLU at 4:00pm

Tonight at 9 p.m. EDT, Frontline on PBS takes a penetrating look at the Obama administration's immigration policies and the hidden world of immigration detention.

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