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Iowa Raid Update and How To Help
Raids
Written by Tara TC   
Friday, 16 May 2008

Lawyers continue to fight for access to detainees, and community groups are raising money to support the affected families.

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Detained at a Cattle Ground
Raids
Written by Tara TC   
Tuesday, 13 May 2008

Detainees from yesterday's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid at a meat processing plant in Iowa are being held at a cattle ground.

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More than 300 deteained in Iowa raid
Raids
Written by Tara TC   
Monday, 12 May 2008

U.S. Immigration and Customs has said that number may rise as the raid at a meatpacking plant continues.

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More on the inner workings - and failures - of detention health care system
Detention
Written by Tara TC   
Monday, 12 May 2008

The Washington Post this week is publishing a series of explosive investigative articles highlighting the systematic failure of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to provide the staffing and resources needed to properly care for immigrants in its custody.

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Congress Must Act to Stop Deaths in Immigrant Detention
Detention
Written by NIJC   
Wednesday, 07 May 2008
U.S. Representative Zoe Lofgren has introduced legislation to ensure timely and more comprehensive medical and mental health care for non-citizens held in the custody of the Department of Homeland Security.
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68 Deaths in Immigrant Detention
Detention
Written by Tara TC   
Monday, 05 May 2008
The New York Times has published from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that shows the names of people who died in immigrant detention between 2004 and November 2007, where they died, and how they died.
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May Day 2008
Workers Rights
Written by Tara TC   
Thursday, 01 May 2008
Immigrants and workers take to the streets today to demand justice and respect for human rights of our neighbors, families, classmates, and coworkers.
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"Immigration Won't Pay For It": A Refugee Woman Talks about Medical Care in ICE Detention
Detention
Written by Tara TC   
Wednesday, 30 April 2008

In this video, a refugee woman talks about her efforts to access medical care during nearly two years of detention in a county jail under the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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U.S. admits negligence in detainee's death
Detention
Written by Tara TC   
Tuesday, 29 April 2008

The federal government has admitted that its negligence was responsible for the death of an illegal immigrant who pleaded during 11 months in custody for treatment for a condition that proved to be terminal penile cancer, the San Francisco Chronicle reports today.

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Posner Speech Criticizes Immigration Court System
U.S. Policy
Written by NIJC   
Friday, 25 April 2008

Federal Judge Richard Posner described administrative law judges who serve in the immigration courts as ill-trained and insufficient in number during a speech to the Chicago Bar Association this week.

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Know the Truth About Immigrant Detention
Detention
Written by Tara TC   
Tuesday, 22 April 2008
The Midwest Coalition for Human Rights has created an excellent short video explaining why the U.S. immigrant detention system violates basic American values, and what you can do to help change it.
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Communities deal with aftermath of Pilgrims Pride immigration sweeps
Raids
Written by Tara TC   
Friday, 18 April 2008
"It was not just our Hispanic children who were upset ... It was all the children. It affected the whole school," an elementary school principal told The Dallas Morning News.
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Found an immigration lawyer? Check. Found a competent one?
U.S. Policy
Written by Tara TC   
Friday, 18 April 2008
For immigrants facing deportation, finding a lawyer is only part of the battle. Finding a lawyer who knows the immigration system well and isn't already overwhelmed by a tremendous caseload can be much harder.
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Ensure Immigrant Detainees' Access to Ministry
Detention
Written by Tara TC   
Wednesday, 16 April 2008
The number of immigrants detained under the custody U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in county jails has grown significantly in the past year, as the government works to deport as many immigrants as possible. Religious workers in Illinois want to ensure that those detainees are able to meet with clergy who can help them cope during their incarceration. The Illinois Access to Religious Ministry Act, HB 2747, would provide immigrants detained by ICE the same access to religious visitation as inmates in Illinois' criminal system.
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Update: Wisconsin student released from detention
Detention
Written by Tara TC   
Monday, 14 April 2008

Tope Awe, a University of Wisconsin student who was detained last month when Department of Homeland Security officials decided her father's medical visa had run out, is now free. But her case isn't over.

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A Dream Deferred
U.S. Policy
Written by Tara Tidwell Cullen   
Friday, 11 April 2008
A Dream Deferred launched earlier this year to bring together students from across the United States to blog and organize in support of the DREAM Act.
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The Visitor
Detention
Written by Tara TC   
Wednesday, 09 April 2008

In the new film The Visitor, an unsuspecting college professor named Walter Vale is thrust into the middle of a modern-day immigrant story. Within days of befriending a young immigrant couple, he is forced to grapple with the harsh realities immigrants face in the United States today, and how unjust immigration laws affect all Americans.

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