Former ICE head Julie Myers. (Wikipedia photo) Since its creation in 2003 as part of the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has earned a reputation for controversy. It is perhaps best-known by the news-consuming public for the series of high-profile raids on employers, the most infamous of which was the Postville, Iowa [...]
Tag Archives: detention
Australia’s Immigration Detention System “the Worst”
October 9, 2008 – 9:28 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUYGkVtqY-0 Australia’s Christmas Island detention center. From time to time it’s useful to look at how other migration-destination countries deal with illegal immigration—if only so we can feel better about the United States. Case in point: human rights advocates have told Australia’s Parliament that the country has the harshest immigration detention system in the western [...]
New Fund Helps Detained Immigrants Pay Bonds
August 21, 2008 – 7:24 am
Illegal immigrants held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement often have trouble paying the bonds necessary to get out of detention centers. But now they can turn to the National Immigrant Bond Fund, set up by the liberal non-profit Public Interest Projects last year. This week the chairman of the fund, Boston financier Robert Hildreth, announced [...]
Immigrant’s Death Leads to Calls for Detention Center Reform
August 20, 2008 – 12:20 pm
Hiu Lui Ng, a 34-year-old Chinese immigrant who had lived in the U.S. for his entire adult life, died of cancer in a Rhode Island detention center on August 6. When Ng, who had been healthy when arrested a year ago, began losing weight and complaining of excruciating pain in April, detention officials accused him [...]
