Letter

Coalition Letter to DHS Inspecter General Mann

Document Date: February 6, 2009
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Regarding audit of immigration detention transfers and impact on legal representation

At our meeting in September, your staff requested that we develop written recommendations on howto 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 thatmeeting, we have crafted the following recommendations organized around three due process guarantees: