Britain tested an alternative to detention for people living outside the immigration system. Though praised by the U.N., its outcomes didn’t fit the government’s hard-line approach.
Tag: Immigration Detention
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New York’s Right to Shelter Is Under Attack. Again.
The mayor is going to court over the city’s unique decree guaranteeing a room to all New Yorkers. It is not the city’s first time, with dozens of similar challenges over the past decades.
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Miles de migrantes son encarcelados en la frontera como testigos
El Departamento de Justicia ha invocado una ley de 200 años de antigüedad para detener a miles de migrantes indocumentados a fin de que declaren en casos contra traficantes de personas. Algunos han estado privados de la libertad seis meses o más.
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Justice Department Detains Thousands of Immigrants as Witnesses
The Justice Department has invoked a 200-year-old law to detain thousands of undocumented immigrants as witnesses in smuggling cases. Judges have locked up some for six months or more.
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They Ran for a Better Life, Straight Into a Wildfire
Greek authorities assumed the victims were asylum seekers because no one was looking for missing people locally. And for more than a month, their identities, and the circumstances of their deaths, remained a mystery.