(Kimberly)
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2009/04/29/20090429immig0429.html
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
For Obama, labor battle looming on immigration
Tougher ICE Amidst Drug War Border Crisis
(Royce)
This article, released by the Associated Press, discusses the growing drug violence on our Southern border and the central role it's playing in the confirmation process of John Morton to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency. Morton is proposing increased drug-arrest powers for agents in light of the new situation with drug cartels and the possibility of them spilling over into the United States. Should such change come to pass the possibility of more stringent and unjust random raids could rise.
Morton is not alone in his tough stance towards the immigration process. He has drawn bipartisan support, and has gotten Democratic senator Chuck Schumer to sign on.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Some push to close U.S.-Mexico border to keep out swine flu
(Erica)
Two members of Congress are calling on the government to close the U.S.-Mexico border.
As dozens of cases are being reported in Texas and other states, Reps. Michael Burgess, R-Lewisville, and Eric Massa, D-New York — along with a national anti-illegal immigration group — are asking federal officials or Gov. Rick Perry to shut down the border.
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Two members of Congress are calling on the government to close the U.S.-Mexico border.
As dozens of cases are being reported in Texas and other states, Reps. Michael Burgess, R-Lewisville, and Eric Massa, D-New York — along with a national anti-illegal immigration group — are asking federal officials or Gov. Rick Perry to shut down the border.
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Ex-Mexican president addresses Darden
(Erica)The Daily Progress
/Megan Lovett
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox discusses crises such as the swine flu outbreak and the global economic downturn, as well as immigration reform, in a speech before the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration
Click here for full story
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Latino Leaders Reject Boycotting Illegal Immigrant Census
April 23, 2009
(Kimberly)
There is a debate between latino leaders in the community over deciding if they should boycott illegal immigrant census. Christian leaders in the community advocate boycotting the 2010 Census until Congress addresses immigration reform. They feel that information gathered during the census targets the undocumented community by highlighting large concentrations of such communities, which leads to immigration sweeps. On the other hand, political leaders oppose the boycott, stating they should instead encourage immigrants to participate and be counted because they need to get their fair share of resources and representation.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/group-undocumented-latino-2372866-immigrant-census
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Senate Meeting in AZ to Discuss Immigration...Arpaio Absent for Colbert Show
(Royce) April 22, 2009
In a short article on ktar.com, The US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee convened in Phoenix, Arizona Monday to discuss border issues in light of the growing drug violence in Mexico.
Among those lawmakers in the spotlight is Senator John McCain, who is under fire from his own party and Latinos due to his previous moderate stance on immigration and for his now reversed immigration policy. He called for more cooperation between the US and Mexico to resolve the border issue.
Not available to testify was the Sheriff Arpaio we've been discussing, who is under intense national scrutiny for his treatment of illegal immigrants. He instead chose to guest on the Stephen Colbert Report in New York.
In a short article on ktar.com, The US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee convened in Phoenix, Arizona Monday to discuss border issues in light of the growing drug violence in Mexico.
Among those lawmakers in the spotlight is Senator John McCain, who is under fire from his own party and Latinos due to his previous moderate stance on immigration and for his now reversed immigration policy. He called for more cooperation between the US and Mexico to resolve the border issue.
Not available to testify was the Sheriff Arpaio we've been discussing, who is under intense national scrutiny for his treatment of illegal immigrants. He instead chose to guest on the Stephen Colbert Report in New York.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Many immigrants deported for nonviolent crimes
(Jennifer)
www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/la-na-deportees15-2009apr15,0,7941491.story
chicagotribune.com
Many immigrants deported for nonviolent crimes
Human Rights Watch says its study dispels 'the myth that immigrants deported for crimes are invariably people here illegally who committed serious, violent crimes.'
By Andrew Becker and Anna Gorman
April 15, 2009
Federal authorities have repeatedly said their priority is to find and remove illegal immigrants with violent criminal histories, but the U.S. government's stepped-up enforcement in recent years has led to the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants convicted of nonviolent crimes, according to a new study.
Nearly three-quarters of the roughly 897,000 immigrants deported from 1997 to 2007 after serving criminal sentences were convicted of nonviolent offenses, and one-fifth were legal permanent residents, according to the study released today by Human Rights Watch.
"This explodes the myth that immigrants deported for crimes are invariably people here illegally who committed serious, violent crimes," said David Fathi, director of the New York-based advocacy group's U.S. program. "We know now the large majority are being deported for nonviolent, often quite minor crimes."
The report comes at a time when President Obama has said he will push for immigration reforms and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has begun reviewing enforcement policies.
The deportations cited in the report occurred after the passage of a 1996 law that mandated the detention and deportation of all immigrants, even those who are longtime lawful residents, if they committed a crime punishable by at least one year behind bars.
The law is retroactive, so immigrants are often deported because of crimes they committed before the law was written.
The top reasons for deportation during the 10-year period were entering the U.S. illegally, driving while under the influence of alcohol, assault and immigration crimes, such as selling false citizenship papers, the report said.
The study is based on data obtained from the U.S. government through the Freedom of Information Act.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Lori Haley said the agency was responsible for enforcing the laws enacted by Congress and carrying out court-ordered deportation orders. The majority of criminal immigrants targeted were identified while in the nation's jails or prisons, she said.
"Promoting public safety is part of ICE's core mission," Haley said. "Removing these individuals from our communities and from our country reduces a significant safety vulnerability."
The report said 28% of those deported on criminal grounds were convicted of violent or potentially violent offenses, such as robbery and kidnapping.
Roy Beck, executive director of NumbersUSA, which favors stricter controls on immigration, said illegal immigrants had no right to be here and should be removed regardless of their criminal records.
"They don't need to have committed a crime at all," he said. "They still should be deported."
The Human Rights Watch report estimates the deportations have caused the separation of more than 1 million family members.
Yakara Hernandez of Tampa, Fla., said she and her husband understood that he came to the U.S. illegally and were willing to pay the penalty. Hernandez said they owned a business and a home, paid taxes and were raising three daughters.
But she said the family's life had been on hold since immigration officials deported her husband to Honduras in December 2006.
Hector Hernandez had a drunk driving conviction and had been deported once before. He was arrested at the Port of Tampa and flown to his native country after spending two months in immigration jail.
"My life has been thrown into pause since 2006," she said. "I can't plan for the future."
Leticia Benitez, who lives in Azusa, said her family had also been divided by deportation. Benitez's husband, a legal permanent resident, was arrested in 2007 and deported to Mexico based on an old misdemeanor conviction for statutory rape.
"That was a mistake he did when he was a teenager," said Benitez, a U.S. citizen. "He shouldn't be punished for that."
His lawyer, Mario Acosta Jr., said Tuesday that the U.S. government had agreed that the crime should not have resulted in a deportation and that the case would return to appellate court. Benitez said she and the couple's two U.S.-born daughters were praying for his return.
The biggest problem with the 1996 law is that it didn't give judges enough discretion to consider family and community ties, said Angelica Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles. Immigrants are punished twice for their crimes, she said.
"Not only are they dealing with whatever the mistake was in the criminal justice system, then they have to deal with the immigration consequences," she said.
Human Rights Watch recommended that Obama and Congress amend the law to allow legal permanent residents facing deportation to ask a judge for permission to stay in the country if their crimes were minor and their family connections strong.
The report also calls on immigration authorities to focus their deportation efforts on undocumented immigrants convicted of violent crimes.
But Rachel E. Rosenbloom, supervising attorney with Boston College's Post-Deportation Human Rights Project, said she expected the deportation of criminal offenders would be the last piece of any reform legislation.
"There are a lot of issues that need to be fixed in our immigration laws," Rosenbloom said. "This is one of them, but it's not in the limelight."
abecker@cironline.org
anna.gorman@latimes.com
This story was reported and written in collaboration with the Center for Investigative Reporting in Berkeley, a nonprofit news organization. Andrew Becker is a CIR staff reporter. Anna Gorman is a Times staff writer.
Copyright © 2009, The Los Angeles Times
www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/la-na-deportees15-2009apr15,0,7941491.story
chicagotribune.com
Many immigrants deported for nonviolent crimes
Human Rights Watch says its study dispels 'the myth that immigrants deported for crimes are invariably people here illegally who committed serious, violent crimes.'
By Andrew Becker and Anna Gorman
April 15, 2009
Federal authorities have repeatedly said their priority is to find and remove illegal immigrants with violent criminal histories, but the U.S. government's stepped-up enforcement in recent years has led to the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants convicted of nonviolent crimes, according to a new study.
Nearly three-quarters of the roughly 897,000 immigrants deported from 1997 to 2007 after serving criminal sentences were convicted of nonviolent offenses, and one-fifth were legal permanent residents, according to the study released today by Human Rights Watch.
"This explodes the myth that immigrants deported for crimes are invariably people here illegally who committed serious, violent crimes," said David Fathi, director of the New York-based advocacy group's U.S. program. "We know now the large majority are being deported for nonviolent, often quite minor crimes."
The report comes at a time when President Obama has said he will push for immigration reforms and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has begun reviewing enforcement policies.
The deportations cited in the report occurred after the passage of a 1996 law that mandated the detention and deportation of all immigrants, even those who are longtime lawful residents, if they committed a crime punishable by at least one year behind bars.
The law is retroactive, so immigrants are often deported because of crimes they committed before the law was written.
The top reasons for deportation during the 10-year period were entering the U.S. illegally, driving while under the influence of alcohol, assault and immigration crimes, such as selling false citizenship papers, the report said.
The study is based on data obtained from the U.S. government through the Freedom of Information Act.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Lori Haley said the agency was responsible for enforcing the laws enacted by Congress and carrying out court-ordered deportation orders. The majority of criminal immigrants targeted were identified while in the nation's jails or prisons, she said.
"Promoting public safety is part of ICE's core mission," Haley said. "Removing these individuals from our communities and from our country reduces a significant safety vulnerability."
The report said 28% of those deported on criminal grounds were convicted of violent or potentially violent offenses, such as robbery and kidnapping.
Roy Beck, executive director of NumbersUSA, which favors stricter controls on immigration, said illegal immigrants had no right to be here and should be removed regardless of their criminal records.
"They don't need to have committed a crime at all," he said. "They still should be deported."
The Human Rights Watch report estimates the deportations have caused the separation of more than 1 million family members.
Yakara Hernandez of Tampa, Fla., said she and her husband understood that he came to the U.S. illegally and were willing to pay the penalty. Hernandez said they owned a business and a home, paid taxes and were raising three daughters.
But she said the family's life had been on hold since immigration officials deported her husband to Honduras in December 2006.
Hector Hernandez had a drunk driving conviction and had been deported once before. He was arrested at the Port of Tampa and flown to his native country after spending two months in immigration jail.
"My life has been thrown into pause since 2006," she said. "I can't plan for the future."
Leticia Benitez, who lives in Azusa, said her family had also been divided by deportation. Benitez's husband, a legal permanent resident, was arrested in 2007 and deported to Mexico based on an old misdemeanor conviction for statutory rape.
"That was a mistake he did when he was a teenager," said Benitez, a U.S. citizen. "He shouldn't be punished for that."
His lawyer, Mario Acosta Jr., said Tuesday that the U.S. government had agreed that the crime should not have resulted in a deportation and that the case would return to appellate court. Benitez said she and the couple's two U.S.-born daughters were praying for his return.
The biggest problem with the 1996 law is that it didn't give judges enough discretion to consider family and community ties, said Angelica Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles. Immigrants are punished twice for their crimes, she said.
"Not only are they dealing with whatever the mistake was in the criminal justice system, then they have to deal with the immigration consequences," she said.
Human Rights Watch recommended that Obama and Congress amend the law to allow legal permanent residents facing deportation to ask a judge for permission to stay in the country if their crimes were minor and their family connections strong.
The report also calls on immigration authorities to focus their deportation efforts on undocumented immigrants convicted of violent crimes.
But Rachel E. Rosenbloom, supervising attorney with Boston College's Post-Deportation Human Rights Project, said she expected the deportation of criminal offenders would be the last piece of any reform legislation.
"There are a lot of issues that need to be fixed in our immigration laws," Rosenbloom said. "This is one of them, but it's not in the limelight."
abecker@cironline.org
anna.gorman@latimes.com
This story was reported and written in collaboration with the Center for Investigative Reporting in Berkeley, a nonprofit news organization. Andrew Becker is a CIR staff reporter. Anna Gorman is a Times staff writer.
Copyright © 2009, The Los Angeles Times
Study: Poverty more likely for kids of illegal immigrants
(Jennifer)
www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-immigration-pew-studyapr15,0,205122.story
chicagotribune.com
Study: Poverty more likely for kids of illegal immigrants
By Sara Olkon
Tribune reporter
April 15, 2009
Roxana Joachin never dreamed that her sons, Sebastian and Ricardo, would grow up without their father.
The Pilsen woman, a part-time secretary, now relies on church food baskets, public aid and help from relatives to house and clothe her boys. In 2004, her common-law husband, Roberto Lopez, was deported back to Mexico. An illegal immigrant, Lopez had been working as a carpet layer on the North Side.
Joachin and her sons, all U.S. citizens, pray for the day Lopez can return.
"I tell them, 'Papi is working out of town,' " she said as she wiped away tears.
Growing numbers of children of illegal immigrants are being born in this country, and they are nearly twice as likely to live in poverty as the children of American-born parents, says a report released Tuesday by the Pew Hispanic Center.
In 2008, 73 percent of the children of undocumented immigrants were U.S.-born, compared with 63 percent in 2003.
The study highlights a complicating factor in the Immigration debate: Illegal immigrants' children born in the United States are American citizens, yet they struggle in poverty and uncertainty along with their parents.
"By the time they get to high school they are dropping out in much greater numbers" than the children of American-born parents, said Joshua Hoyt, executive director of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights.
Hoyt has said restrictions on illegal immigrants should be eased.
"As the Baby Boomers retire there is a need for a massive replacement of workers both to pay our Social Security and to do work that needs to be done," he said. "If we don't legalize the undocumented and put them and their children on a ladder that they climb out of poverty, the undocumented and their families will suffer today, the rest of us will suffer tomorrow."
William Gheen, president of the Americans for Legal Immigration political action committee, said he thinks illegal immigrants are causing the suffering.
"The increase in the number of babies that illegal immigrants are having illustrates what we've known for some time: They are intentionally exploiting the birthright citizen provision," Gheen said.
But Martin Andrade isn't thinking about politics when he describes his wife's forced separation from him and their three children.
A U.S. citizen living in southwest suburban Burbank, Andrade met his wife, Maria, while studying in Mexico City in 1999. After they married, Maria Andrade applied for citizenship. While they waited, she sneaked into the country illegally. They started a family and moved to South Chicago. In 2005, she received a letter from Immigration officials. The couple thought her citizenship papers had finally gone through. Instead, Maria Andrade was arrested and deported.
solkon@tribune.com
Copyright © 2009, Chicago Tribune
www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-immigration-pew-studyapr15,0,205122.story
chicagotribune.com
Study: Poverty more likely for kids of illegal immigrants
By Sara Olkon
Tribune reporter
April 15, 2009
Roxana Joachin never dreamed that her sons, Sebastian and Ricardo, would grow up without their father.
The Pilsen woman, a part-time secretary, now relies on church food baskets, public aid and help from relatives to house and clothe her boys. In 2004, her common-law husband, Roberto Lopez, was deported back to Mexico. An illegal immigrant, Lopez had been working as a carpet layer on the North Side.
Joachin and her sons, all U.S. citizens, pray for the day Lopez can return.
"I tell them, 'Papi is working out of town,' " she said as she wiped away tears.
Growing numbers of children of illegal immigrants are being born in this country, and they are nearly twice as likely to live in poverty as the children of American-born parents, says a report released Tuesday by the Pew Hispanic Center.
In 2008, 73 percent of the children of undocumented immigrants were U.S.-born, compared with 63 percent in 2003.
The study highlights a complicating factor in the Immigration debate: Illegal immigrants' children born in the United States are American citizens, yet they struggle in poverty and uncertainty along with their parents.
"By the time they get to high school they are dropping out in much greater numbers" than the children of American-born parents, said Joshua Hoyt, executive director of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights.
Hoyt has said restrictions on illegal immigrants should be eased.
"As the Baby Boomers retire there is a need for a massive replacement of workers both to pay our Social Security and to do work that needs to be done," he said. "If we don't legalize the undocumented and put them and their children on a ladder that they climb out of poverty, the undocumented and their families will suffer today, the rest of us will suffer tomorrow."
William Gheen, president of the Americans for Legal Immigration political action committee, said he thinks illegal immigrants are causing the suffering.
"The increase in the number of babies that illegal immigrants are having illustrates what we've known for some time: They are intentionally exploiting the birthright citizen provision," Gheen said.
But Martin Andrade isn't thinking about politics when he describes his wife's forced separation from him and their three children.
A U.S. citizen living in southwest suburban Burbank, Andrade met his wife, Maria, while studying in Mexico City in 1999. After they married, Maria Andrade applied for citizenship. While they waited, she sneaked into the country illegally. They started a family and moved to South Chicago. In 2005, she received a letter from Immigration officials. The couple thought her citizenship papers had finally gone through. Instead, Maria Andrade was arrested and deported.
solkon@tribune.com
Copyright © 2009, Chicago Tribune
Study Says Police Misuse Immigration-Inquiry Rule
(Erica)
Many police officers in New Jersey are misusing a 2007 directive by the state’s attorney general by questioning the immigration status of Latino drivers, passengers, pedestrians and even crime victims, reporting them to federal immigration authorities and jailing some for days without criminal charges, according to a Seton Hall Law School study.
“The data suggests a disturbing trend towards racial profiling by the New Jersey police,” said Bassina Farbenblum, a lawyer with the law school’s Center for Social Justice, which gathered details of 68 cases over the past nine months in which people were questioned about their immigration status for no apparent reason, or after minor infractions, like rolling through a stop sign. None involved drunken driving or the use of false documents.
In one case it cited, police officers questioned a man at the Camden train station after asking to see his ticket. Unable to show one, he was arrested and held for seven days before being turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (The Camden police did not return calls for comment.)
for article click here
Many police officers in New Jersey are misusing a 2007 directive by the state’s attorney general by questioning the immigration status of Latino drivers, passengers, pedestrians and even crime victims, reporting them to federal immigration authorities and jailing some for days without criminal charges, according to a Seton Hall Law School study.
“The data suggests a disturbing trend towards racial profiling by the New Jersey police,” said Bassina Farbenblum, a lawyer with the law school’s Center for Social Justice, which gathered details of 68 cases over the past nine months in which people were questioned about their immigration status for no apparent reason, or after minor infractions, like rolling through a stop sign. None involved drunken driving or the use of false documents.
In one case it cited, police officers questioned a man at the Camden train station after asking to see his ticket. Unable to show one, he was arrested and held for seven days before being turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (The Camden police did not return calls for comment.)
for article click here
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Illegal Immigration Continues to Slow In CA
(ROYCE)
Short article in the LA Times on how California now has 22% of the nation's illegal aliens in contrast to 44% in 1990. With data provided by the 2008 Census, California still has the most illegal immigrants at 2.7 million, but has seen many of it's illegals dispersed to other states like Georgia and North Carolina.
Three quarters of the nation's illegal immigrants are Latino, mostly from Mexico, and nearly three quarters of their children are US citizens b birth.
The article: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/04/illegal-immigration-continues-to-slow-in-california-.html
Short article in the LA Times on how California now has 22% of the nation's illegal aliens in contrast to 44% in 1990. With data provided by the 2008 Census, California still has the most illegal immigrants at 2.7 million, but has seen many of it's illegals dispersed to other states like Georgia and North Carolina.
Three quarters of the nation's illegal immigrants are Latino, mostly from Mexico, and nearly three quarters of their children are US citizens b birth.
The article: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/04/illegal-immigration-continues-to-slow-in-california-.html
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Immigration Raid at Customs Officer’s Home Leads to Suit
(Erica)
James and Sheila Slaughter said that when they answered the door of their home in San Luis, Ariz., on a July afternoon last year, they were surprised to find five armed Immigration and Custom Enforcement officers strapped into bulky bulletproof vests accusing them of harboring an illegal immigrant. The Slaughters recently filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court in Phoenix accusing the Department of Homeland Security of violating their Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable searches and seizures. They are seeking $500,000 from each of the five officers.
Click here for the article
James and Sheila Slaughter said that when they answered the door of their home in San Luis, Ariz., on a July afternoon last year, they were surprised to find five armed Immigration and Custom Enforcement officers strapped into bulky bulletproof vests accusing them of harboring an illegal immigrant. The Slaughters recently filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court in Phoenix accusing the Department of Homeland Security of violating their Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable searches and seizures. They are seeking $500,000 from each of the five officers.
Click here for the article
Immigration and Jobs: Where the Workers Come From
(Erica)
A map that shows where people immigrat from and what sectors they work in.
click here for the map
A map that shows where people immigrat from and what sectors they work in.
click here for the map
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Mexico's Drug War Fallout: Anti-immigrant Sentiments Will Rise; Fearful Mexicans Will Cling to the U.S.
(Kimberly)
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-rodriguez6-2009apr06,1,6092784.column
Latinos Drive Record Surge in U.S. Naturalizations
(Kimberly)
The Department of Homeland Security has shown an increase in the number of immigrants naturalized. Some speculate that one of the reasons for this increase in immigrant naturalization might be due to the 2008 election. This immensely impacted the Hispanic electorate and helped lock in the Hispanic vote for Barack Obama.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/6363623.html
Relax Immigration Laws....to Ensure an Accurate Census?
(Royce)
This an article from the Fox News Website, directed from Google.
As the 2010 Census approaches, there are some who argue that the government must relax immigration laws to take into account the millions of people who are too afraid share their personal information because of fears of deportation.
Representative William Clay, who oversees the House subcommittee on the Census, plans to ask the Obama administration to suspend immigration raids for the next year.
This move, which has been done before, has come with intense criticism, especially from the Right, as they feel it is incorrect to ask border patrol officers to "not do their jobs."
Whether or not the Obama administration will oblige remains to be seen
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Immigrant detainees file lawsuit over jail conditions
(Erica)
Source: Los Angeles Times
Article:
A lawsusuit filed in U.S. District Court claims that Federal authorities are violating immigrant detainees’ constitutional rights by holding them for weeks at a detention facility in downtown Los Angeles that was designed as a short-term processing center.
According to ACLU of Souther and NAtional Immigration Law Center, the facility is “regularly overcrowded, causing violence, safety hazards, and humiliation,” furthermore detainees detainees are denied access to attorneys and courts and are rarely provided drinking water or a change of clothing.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities said they couldn’t comment on pending litigation but issued a statement saying that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano had called for a comprehensive review of the nation’s immigration practices and was committed to making “measurable, sustainable progress.”
Link:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/04/immigrant-detainees.html
Source: Los Angeles Times
Article:
A lawsusuit filed in U.S. District Court claims that Federal authorities are violating immigrant detainees’ constitutional rights by holding them for weeks at a detention facility in downtown Los Angeles that was designed as a short-term processing center.
According to ACLU of Souther and NAtional Immigration Law Center, the facility is “regularly overcrowded, causing violence, safety hazards, and humiliation,” furthermore detainees detainees are denied access to attorneys and courts and are rarely provided drinking water or a change of clothing.
“There are serious violations of due process.” - ACLU Attorney
Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities said they couldn’t comment on pending litigation but issued a statement saying that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano had called for a comprehensive review of the nation’s immigration practices and was committed to making “measurable, sustainable progress.”
Link:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/04/immigrant-detainees.html