Posted by admin on Apr 4th, 2009
This is an URGENT NATIONAL ALERT being sent out by our allies in No One Is Illegal Toronto. Approximately 100 (exact figures unconfirmed) migrant and non-status workers have been detained in large-scale workplace enforcement actions in Ontario, primarily in the Greater Toronto Area district. There has been minimal media reporting on these huge-scale operations, a local report on one of the raids in Bradford is available at: http://www.thebarrieexaminer.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1508182
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Posted by admin on Apr 2nd, 2009
Original report: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/ICE_FOIA2.pdf
New York Times, April 2 2009
The document that follows, “List of Detainee Deaths since October 2003,†is the government’s latest account of deaths in immigration detention, through Feb. 7, 2009. Compiled by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and obtained by The New York Times under the Freedom of Information Act, it lists the names of 90 people who died, their dates of birth and death, their nationality, where they died or were last held, whether an autopsy report or death certificate was secured, and the cause of death.
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Posted by admin on Mar 18th, 2009
Wed. Mar. 18 2009 6:23 PM ET. The Canadian Press
OTTAWA — A federal program to prevent people from being shipped home to torture has quietly mushroomed into an inefficient new layer of the refugee-screening process, says an internal federal report. The Immigration Department evaluation says there is a definite need for the pre-removal risk assessment program, noting more than 800 people have successfully avoided deportation from Canada due to risk of persecution. However, the program is not the tool of last resort it was meant to be, says the report obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act.
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Posted by admin on Mar 15th, 2009
By MICHELLE ROBERTS – Mar 15, 2009, Associated Press
America’s detention system for immigrants has mushroomed in the last decade, a costly building boom that was supposed to sweep up criminals and ensure that undocumented immigrants were quickly shown the door. Instead, an Associated Press computer analysis of every person being held on a recent Sunday night shows that most did not have a criminal record and many were not about to leave the country — voluntarily or via deportation. An official Immigration and Customs Enforcement database, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, showed a U.S. detainee population of exactly 32,000 on the evening of Jan. 25.
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Posted by admin on Mar 13th, 2009
March 13, 2009. W. Zachary Malinowski. Providence Journal
PROVIDENCE — A federal criminal investigation is under way into the death of Hiu Lui “Jason†Ng, an immigrant detainee, who died at the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls last summer after corrections officers and nursing staff allegedly ignored his pleas for help. In papers filed yesterday in U.S. District Court, a lawyer for the estate of Ng’s wife, Lin Li Qu, said prosecutors from the Justice Department and the U.S. Attorney’s office in New Hampshire told him “that they were conducting a criminal investigation concerning the detention and death of Mr. Ng.â€
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