ICE's Use of Solitary Confinement "Only Increasing" Under Biden
A new report reveals that ICE continues to isolate immigrants en masse, including many with known mental health conditions.
Source: theintercept.com
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Federal records show increasing use of solitary confinement for immigrants
More detainees are being held in private prison facilities with little means of accountability, and preliminary data from 2023 suggest a “marked increase” in the use of solitary confinement, according to Harvard researchers.
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Source: bostonglobe.com
New report finds Boston immigration court makes seeking asylum harder
A new report from Harvard finds the Biden administration's "Dedicated Docket" immigration court in Boston, which was supposed to speed up the asylum process and make it fairer, makes obtaining asylum harder.
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Source: wbur.org
Harvard Law School study: Boston immigration court is failing immigrants
A new Harvard Law School report provides the first detailed look inside the fast-tracked program.
Source: bostonglobe.com
For a Jamaican couple, a broken asylum system makes church sanctuary both refuge and jail
A Jamaican couple in church sanctuary are both victims and beneficiaries of U.S. immigration policy. How did they get there? And now, how will they get out?
Source: inquirer.com
Fearing Those Who Flee Trump's America
Canada is using the Safe Third Country Agreement to systematically turn back asylum seekers
Source: thewalrus.ca
US-Canada meeting: How Biden and Trudeau's immigration deal affects asylum seekers
It’s the latest move by the Biden administration to take a harsher approach on the issue.
Source: vox.com
Letter to President Biden: Do not send Haitians to detention at Guantánamo Bay or subject them to third-country arrangements
The administration must not under any circumstances send asylum seekers and migrants to the notorious Guantánamo Bay or other offshore detention locations. The United States should also immediately create swift, meaningful, and substantial safe pathways to protection for Haitians, and provide access to apply for asylum in the United States, without discrimination, and regardless of whether people travel by land, sea, or air in search of refuge.
Source: whistleblower.org
Letter from Human Rights Groups to US President Joe Biden – Human Rights Watch
Help us continue to fight human rights abuses. Please give now to support our work Share this via Facebook Share this via Twitter Share this via WhatsApp Share this via Email Other ways to share Share this via LinkedIn Share this via Reddit Share this via Telegram Share this via Printer The Hon. Joseph R.
Source: tnlivenews.in
Letter from Human Rights Groups to US President Joe Biden
We, at the Haitian Bridge Alliance, and the undersigned 288 immigration, civil rights, human rights, and faith-based organizations, are deeply alarmed by a report that your National Security Council is considering sending and “holding” Haitian asylum seekers interdicted at sea by the United States to third countries or an offshore migrant detention center at the Guantánamo Bay military base in Cuba, a site associated equally with cruelty towards Haitians and more recently, lawlessness, tort...
Source: hrw.org