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Rapid response network to monitor immigration enforcement
launches in San Diego
By Kate Morrissey, San Diego Union Tribune
December 19, 2017
People who see immigration officers knocking at their doors
— or their neighbors' — in San Diego County can now call a new 24-hour hotline
for support.
The hotline is part of the San Diego Rapid Response Network,
which sends trained volunteers to reported immigration enforcement activity
across the county to document officers’ behavior, gather information for legal
screenings and offer resources to family members. The network is activists’
answer to increased immigration arrests under President Donald Trump.
More than 150 volunteers have received training so far.[…]
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How a Group of Immigration Attorneys Stopped a Deportation
Flight to Cambodia
ICE is seeking to deport Cambodian Americans at
unprecedented speed.
By Julianne Hing, The Nation
December 19, 2017
A plane packed with around 50 Cambodian Americans set for
deportation was scheduled to depart on Monday from Texas for Phnom Penh. But a
court order issued late Thursday has blocked, at least for now, the Trump
administration’s plan to expel them.
A US district-court judge granted a month-long temporary
restraining order after attorneys argued that—in the course of raiding,
apprehending, detaining, and attempting to deport more than 100 people to
Cambodia in recent weeks—Immigration and Customs Enforcement denied people due
process and violated the agency’s own procedures.[…]
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Shocking treatment of immigrants by US immigration agents
revealed in new report
Immigration advocates say that ICE frequently fails to bring about change
Clark Mindock, The Independent
December 15, 2017
American immigration detention facilities regularly subject
inmates to strip searches, unsanitary conditions, and threats of prolonged
confinement without justification - a new report details.
The report stems from an inspection of several US detention
facilities by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector
General, which followed after immigrant rights groups and members of the public
lodged complaints about the treatment of the immigrants.
“Overall, we identified problems that undermine the
protection of detainees’ rights, their humane treatment, and the provision of a
safe and healthy environment,” the report states.
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