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Arizona Joins National Call for ‘Dignity, Not Detention’ (news.newamericamedia.org) TMC

Local human rights groups protested outside of the Phoenix offices of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Thursday as part of a national action against immigrant detention.

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Submitted 18 days ago by AlisonHamm | 0 Comments |

"We Can Make Him Disappear": Immigration Officials Are Holding People In Secret, Unmarked Jails (www.alternet.org) TMC

In addition to publicly listed field offices and detention sites, ICE is holding prisoners in 186 unlisted, unmarked locations, many in suburban office parks or commercial spaces.

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Submitted 2 months ago by lizchapman | 0 Comments |

Immigration Trials Increase During Obama Presidency (news.newamericamedia.org) TMC

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A new report reinforces the belief that the Obama Administration has put an emphasis on border security, reports La Opinion. Nearly 70,000 immigration trials have been held in... More

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Submitted 5 months ago by raquelbrown | 0 Comments |

Immigration: Riker's Island: No Home for Immigrants (www.wiretapmag.org) TMC

New York's fight against backwards immigration policy just got a lot stronger.

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Submitted 6 months ago by raquelbrown | 0 Comments |

Helping to Bail Out ICE Detainees (news.newamericamedia.org) TMC

RALEIGH, NC. -- The National Immigrant Bond Fund (NIBF), an organization based in Boston, is starting a program in North Carolina to help soften the financial impacts of deportations on local... More

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Submitted 6 months ago by raquelbrown | 0 Comments |

Report: Gaps in ICE Data Put Detainees at Risk (news.newamericamedia.org) TMC

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) may not be collecting enough data about its own operations to meet legal and humanitarian standards for detention. This was the principle... More

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Submitted 6 months ago by raquelbrown | 0 Comments |

Is the Obama Administration Stalling on 'White Collar' Immigration Crime? | Immigration | AlterNet (www.alternet.org) TMC

Mass immigration raids are up in the first five months of Obama's presidency, despite promises of reform.

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Submitted 6 months ago by Nezua | 0 Comments |

American Apparel Firings: Where's the Logic? (www.wiretapmag.org) TMC

The Obama administration hinted early on that its approach to immigration enforcement will differ from preceding policy. Instead of high-profile, public ICE raids conducted in broad daylight to much... More

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Submitted 6 months ago by raquelbrown | 0 Comments |

Language School Owner Convicted for Fake Visas (news.newamericamedia.org) TMC

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Songwoo Shim, 47, the owner of the Humana Language Learning Center in Duluth, Ga., was sentenced to three years and 10 months in prison and fined $24,000 for manufacturing fake... More

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Submitted 6 months ago by raquelbrown | 0 Comments |

Finally, Hundreds of Groups Challenge Obama on Immigrant Crackdowns (www.racewire.org) TMC

About 520 immigrant, racial justice and civil rights advocacy groups are have rallied to demand that the Obama administration scrap the 287(g) program. A disturbing hallmark of the Bush... More

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Submitted 6 months ago by saramediaconsortium | 0 Comments |

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