Posts Tagged ‘immigrant detention centers’
Mainstream Media Finally Talking About Human Rights Violations in Immigration Detention
7:48 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Immigration| Media| TV · 2 Comments
27 Mar 2009Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
It’s been talked about for years. It’s been documented for years pero suddenly when it’s a huge mainstream human rights organization or the mainstream media saying it, it’s real.
I guess we should be happy that the issue of human rights violations in immigrant jails (detention facilities as they say in fancy speak) are getting any play at all. The real important point though is if all the attention leads to some real action on the part of the U.S. government. This means an end to raids that help fill up these jails until the current immigration system is overhauled.
No, I’m not holding my breath.
Via / Citizen Orange
New From Breakthrough: Homeland Guantanamo
4:51 pm By Maegan La Mala · Education| Immigration| Internet · Comments Off
7 Oct 2008From Breakthrough, the people that brought you ICED and Don’t Deport Me Scotty, comes Homeland Guantanamos, an interactive online look at the conditions and deaths inside immigrant detention centers.
Just like ICED, Homeland Gitmos just doesn’t spit out facts and figures, but engages the user to find them through a virtual visit inside the horrific conditions of the federally run immigrant jails.
Having covered the issue, the information wasn’t surprising, but I can see Homeland Guantanamo’s potential as a learning tool , especially for youth. I’m gonna show my 11 year old daughter the site today and see what she thinks. She’s a big fan of ICED.
What do you all think?
ICE Planning to Build Three More Family Detention Centers
6:30 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Family| Immigration| Justice| children · Comments Off
20 May 2008Who said the U.S. government isn’t listening when the community demands that immigrant families not be broken up, that parents and children shouldn’t be separated?
Anna Gorman of the Los Angeles Times reports that ICE has solicited bids for three more family detention centers, to house 600 men, women, and children:
“Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued a call for proposals last month and set June 16 as the deadline. New facilities are being considered on both coasts and on the Southwestern border. The agency calls for minimum-security residential facilities that would provide a ‘least restrictive, nonsecure setting’ and provide schooling for children, recreational activities and access to religious
services.”
From the mouths of babes: My 10 year old, the MapucheRican wondered if it wouldn’t be a better use of money to build more schools, to keep children out of jails instead of locking them up.
Via / T Don Hutto
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