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No ICE Apology in Settlement of Drugging Lawsuit Print E-mail
Friday, 01 February 2008

CNN reports that two immigrants who sued the government after being forcibly drugged by ICE agents who were trying to deport them have reached a settlement with the agency.

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Setting Standards for Jailing Families Print E-mail
Tuesday, 22 January 2008
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement released new guidelines last week for detaining immigrant parents and children together at family detention centers. The standards promise a number of legal protections for detainees, but still allow detention officers to use restraints, steel batons, and strip searches to discipline children.
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ICE Will No Longer Sedate Deportees without Court Order Print E-mail
Monday, 14 January 2008

According to in internal memo issued by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement this week, U.S. immigration agents must not sedate deportees without a judge's permission.

 

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Midwest Coalition for Human Rights Print E-mail
Wednesday, 09 January 2008
The Midwest Coalition for Human Rights brings together a wide range of organizations to bring broader visibility for urgent human rights issues in the Heartland and project a strong Midwest advocacy voice in the national and international human rights debate.
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How ICE Stole Christmas Print E-mail
Friday, 07 December 2007
A community in Texas is holding a toy drive for children jailed at the T. Don Hutto family detention center. The event offers an opportunity to remember the children who are caught up in the U.S. immigrant detention system.
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Human Rights Watch: Immigration Detention Practices Endanger Health, Life Print E-mail
Friday, 07 December 2007
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) should upgrade its care and treatment of immigrant detainees with HIV, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The organization charged that the agency has failed to meet its obligations to and respect the rights of its detainees with HIV.
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Jails Not Informed of New ICE Policy for Nursing Mothers Print E-mail
Wednesday, 28 November 2007

When Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued new guidelines earlier this month to address the needs of detained immigrant mothers who are nursing, the agency failed to inform at least one of its contract facilities of the change. As a result, a nursing Brazilian mother was detained in North Carolina for four days before immigration officials released her and informed the jail of the new policy.

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