detention centers
Posted Dec 3, 2021, 12:01 pm
Uriel J. Garcia
/Texas Tribune
When President Joe Biden came into office, he began to roll back the Trump administration’s immigration policies, including the 2017 memo that authorities arrest every undocumented person they find - but advocates say that hasn’t been the reality since Biden was inaugurated.... Read more»
Posted Oct 21, 2021, 12:21 pm
Nicholas Iovino
/Courthouse News Service
Calling a nationwide injunction on ICE’s COVID-19 response “sweeping” and unwarranted, a divided Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel on Wednesday ended requirements for ICE to adopt policies to protect vulnerable immigrants from COVID-19 at 250 U.S. detention centers. ... Read more»
Posted May 25, 2021, 10:01 am
Dara Lind
/ProPublica
Federal court challenges can be a detainee’s only hope of mandated release after months or years, especially in Louisiana, which has recently become a major detention hot spot, but a new study shows ICE helps maintain the status quo of prolonged detentions by releasing immigrants without having their cases vindicated in court.... Read more»
Posted Nov 18, 2020, 11:12 am
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
In August, a group of Cuban asylum seekers held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the La Palma Correctional Center detailed how detainees who fell ill with coronavirus symptoms were put into isolation instead of receiving treatment.... Read more»
Posted Sep 15, 2020, 1:32 pm
Lomi Kriel
/Propublica/The Texas Tribune
Department of Homeland Security and Justice Department inspectors general are investigating allegations that ICE guards assaulted detainees in camera blind spots. ... Read more»
Posted Aug 14, 2020, 10:49 am
Lomi Kriel
/ProPublica
Allegations include guards attacking victims in camera “blind spots” and telling them that “no one would believe” them in ICE detention centers, which imprison about 50,000 immigrants each year at a taxpayer expense of $2.7 billion.... Read more»
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Posted Aug 12, 2020, 3:29 pm
Dara Lind & Lomi Kriel/Propublica/The Texas Tribune
Since March, the Trump administration has pushed thousands of migrant children back to their home countries without legal screenings or protection, citing the risk that they could be carrying COVID-19 into the United States.... Read more»
Posted Jul 16, 2020, 2:16 pm
Farah Eltohamy
/Special to Cronkite News
Medical experts told members of Congress Wednesday that the deaths of two children in Customs and Border Protection custody could have been prevented, but called the deaths “symptoms of a more extensive system that requires much improvement.”... Read more»
Posted Jul 13, 2020, 5:36 am
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
As COVID-19 infection rates and hospitalizations continue to reach record levels in Arizona, some advocates worry that children in detention and rehabilitation centers are at risk and in the blind spot of public health agencies that are grappling with a furious spread of the illness in the broader community.... Read more»
Posted Jun 15, 2020, 1:02 pm
Brett Bavcevic
/Cronkite News
Customs and Border Protection officials spent funds that were supposed to go to medical care and migrant processing facilities to pay for computer upgrades, canine units, ATVs and other items instead, a new government report shows.... Read more»
Posted May 27, 2020, 2:35 pm
Cameron Langford
/Courthouse News Service
A Mexican woman sued prison contractor CoreCivic on Wednesday, claiming a man in street clothes beat and raped her in its Houston detention center and she gave birth to his daughter after she was deported. ... Read more»
Posted Apr 22, 2020, 11:12 am
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
Three Arizona correctional facilities all have high ratings for lack of access to health care and advocacy groups in the state are concerned the situation will worsen during the COVID-19 pandemic.... Read more»
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Posted Mar 23, 2020, 11:33 am
Julian Aguilar
/The Texas Tribune
ICE is requiring lawyers to wear person protection equipment to detention facilities. That could keep the equipment out of the hands of medical personnel — or make it harder for lawyers to see their clients, some say. ... Read more»
Posted Mar 22, 2020, 2:55 pm
Laura C. Morel, Aura Bogado & Patrick Michels/Reveal/Center for Investigative Reporting
ICE has suspended social visits to detention centers and begun screening newly arrived detainees for symptoms. But inside, detainees said, little else has changed in response to the virus. ... Read more»
Posted Dec 6, 2019, 10:28 am
Robert Moore
/ProPublica
“This is inexcusable.” The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee responds to ProPublica’s report on the death of a 16-year-old Guatemalan migrant in Border Patrol custody.... Read more»
Posted Nov 1, 2019, 12:49 pm
Julian Aguilar
/The Texas Tribune
The shortage has forced the West Texas Detention Facility, operated by Louisiana-based LaSalle Corrections, to turn off its water nightly. ... Read more»