Feds to begin immigration detention makeover

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Aug 062009
 
Feds to begin immigration detention makeover

Immigration officials are immediately ending the housing of families at a former prison in central Texas as a first step in transforming immigration detentions from a criminal to a civil system. The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, John Morton, says some families will go to Berks Family Detention Center in Pennsylvania. But he also says decisions about what to do with families will be made on a case-by-case basis. Morton told reporters Thursday that redesigning immigration detention will take several years but the result will be more accountable and uniform. He says the agency will continue to detain people and do so on a large scale. That’s right folks! The infamous Hutto Detention Center will be converted into a MORE

Exactly how crazy are the nativists?

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Dec 242008
 
Exactly how crazy are the nativists?

That is the question posed by our friend the Damned Mexican on his excellent site. We had a chance to make a difference by urging Williamson County Commissioners not to renew the contract with CCA operators of the gulag like Hutto Family Detention Center. Sadly, hip pocket politics won out over common sense. Texas Civil Rights Review, has an opinion piece on their site on the subject. As they said, Putting non-criminal families, including little children, in prison for infractions comparable to running a stop sign is immoral and un-American. Imprisoning people charged with no crime, while they await decision re. applications for citizenship and asylum, is NOT effective immigration policy, does NOT secure our borders, and has NOTHING to MORE

Hutto Toy Delivery and Vigil to End Family Detention

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Dec 172008
 
Hutto Toy Delivery and Vigil to End Family Detention

Please join organizations and individuals from across the state in the third annual December vigil to end family detention, Saturday, December 20th, from 3-5pm. Since May 2006, immigrant families with small children have been jailed in the facility while awaiting asylum or immigration hearings. The prison has been criticized by human rights organizations worldwide as an inappropriate facility for children and their families.  Organizers will deliver more than 500 toys, books, and children’s clothes to the facility in time for the holiday season.  Toys should be in their original packaging and not be on any recall-list to be accepted into the facility. Contact: Bob at (512) 971-0487 or blibal@grassrootsleadership.org MaryEllen Kersch 512-863-7174