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Sunday, 15 June 2008 |
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People of questionable immigration status have become America's untouchables. We allowed that to happen by cheering or simply keeping quiet as undocumented immigrants were systematically vilified for fun or profit by a lot of self-serving blowhards.
Yet a recent congressional hearing about health care at immigration-detention facilities was as much about who we are as Americans as it was about the people who suffer.
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Tuesday, 03 June 2008 |
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Increased Transparency, Timely Hearings Necessary to Ensure Due Process
 Newly available federal data shows a steady increase in the number of immigrants in administrative detention who have signed deportation orders waiving their right to see a judge. The National Immigrant Justice Center, through a Freedom of Information Act request, collected data showing that 94 percent of the 80,844 stipulated orders of removal signed between April 1997 and February 2008 were by immigrants who spoke primarily Spanish, and most had not been charged with a crime.
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Tuesday, 13 May 2008 |
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More than 300 immigrant men, women, and teenagers were detained Monday when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided a meat processing plant in northeastern Iowa. The National Immigrant Justice Center urges ICE to exercise broad discretion in considering the release of individuals on humanitarian grounds, and insists that the agency allow legal aid providers to meet with detainees immediately.
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