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Senate Democrats call on DHS inspector general to investigate ICE abuses against Black immigrants

Top Senate Democrats have joined immigrant rights advocates in calling for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) watchdog to immediately investigate allegations that federal immigration agents and private prison officers tortured a number of...

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President Obama is repeating FDR’s internment camps - but with Central American mothers and toddlers

From Carl Takei at the ACLU’s National Prison Project:

“The Obama administration has repeatedly characterized its newly constructed family detention camps as “an effective and humane” way to keep families together, and threatened in court filings that ending family detention would “require ICE to separate… children from their parents” by keeping the parents locked up and releasing only the children. But last week, a federal court in California issued a blistering order that flatly rejected this argument. The court confirmed that the 1997 Flores settlement prohibits jailing immigrant children and requires officials to release parents and children together unless the parent “is determined to pose a significant flight risk, or a threat to others or the national security, and the flight risk or threat cannot be mitigated by an appropriate bond or conditions of release.””

Corrections Corporation of America, the nation’s biggest for-profit prison company, is being given contracts to detain Central American families seeking refuge from violence

“Each morning at 5:30 a.m., guards wake the children up with shouting and lights. For a place with so many young children, there are no toilets or showers inside the housing units — only communal restrooms accessible through hallways exposed to the elements. On one occasion, a young girl was forced to pee her pants during a detainee count because a guard refused to let her leave to use the toilet. It is not surprising that many children start each day with tears.”

Central American families are being held in internment camps under the guise of “family residential centers,” including children as young as 3 who are forced to undergo immigration hearings without legal counsel.

Sign the petition to provide legal counsel for all children in immigration hearings here: https://action.aclu.org/secure/minors-counsel

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“South Texas Family Residential Center” Article