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Detention and Due Process


Know the Truth: Immigration Detention in the United States
Tuesday, 26 June 2007

Video by the Midwest Coalition for Human Rights

 

Every day, the U.S. government detains more than 30,000 immigrants in more than 300 county jails and detention centers throughout America.

 

Every day, the U.S. government betrays basic American ideals of justice and human rights.

 

Americans take pride in our history as a refuge for men, women, and children escaping war and torture. We also take pride in a justice system that guarantees us the right to a fair hearing. The U.S. immigration detention system betrays these ideals when it locks up immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers and denies them access to legal counsel and other basic human rights.

 

Our elected officials in Washington, D.C., must know that we expect more from our government. When U.S. law denies rights to one group of people, the rights of all are threatened.

 

ktt_brochure_pic.jpgDownload the Know the Truth brochure

 

NIJC's YouTube Channel: Immigrants talk about their experiences in detention

 

Deaths in Immigrant Detention

 

U.S. Immigration Detention Standards

 

NIJC's Defending Human Rights & Due Process Policy Brief

 

Links to Detention Resources from NGOs, Congress, and the Executive Branch