Coalition Letter to DHS Inspecter General Mann
February 6, 2009
Regarding audit of immigration detention transfers and impact on legal representationAt our meeting in September, your staff requested that we develop written recommendations on how to address the due process problems presented by DHS’s practice of transferring immigration detainees, especially those detainees transferred to facilities in other states. Based on our discussions at that meeting, we have crafted the following recommendations organized around three due process guarantees:
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