Posted by admin on Jan 23rd, 2009
By La Monica Everett-Haynes, University Communications. December 23, 2008
After spending one year conducting research on detention facilities and the treatment of immigrant women prisoners in Arizona, a research team at The University of Arizona found that the women lack adequate care and attention. Nina Rabin, director of border research at the UA’s Southwest Institute for Research on Women and co-director of James E. Rogers College of Law’s immigration clinic, worked with others to detail the statewide situation. Over a one-year period, the research team interviewed more than 40 detainees and their families, attorneys and service providers in an effort to learn about the condition of the detention centers and to also learn more about the prisoners, particularly where they are from and why they’re being held.
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Posted by admin on Dec 19th, 2008
Guardian.co.uk, Friday 19 December 2008 16.05 GMT
Australia is opening a controversial detention centre for asylum seekers on a remote Indian Ocean island nearly 1,000 miles from its mainland. The decision to use the facility on Christmas Island is an embarrassing U-turn for the prime minister, Kevin Rudd, whose own Labor party had criticised the centre’s construction while in opposition. Rudd’s centre-left government had been resisting calls to use the prison-like facility which can house up to 800 people. But a spate of new arrivals forced the rethink. Seven boats carrying 172 refugees have been intercepted off the Australian coast over the past three months.
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Posted by admin on Dec 14th, 2008
By TOM BARRY, December 14, Counterpunch
Mining, railroads, agribusiness, and, recently, construction have been among the many U.S. industries that historically been driven by an abundant supply of immigrants. But now, when the economy is imploding, most industries are shedding immigrants. The private prison industry, however, is booming, largely because of the ever-increasing supply of immigrants supplied by the federal government. In the past, when the government detained immigrants—legal or illegal—they were placed in one of a handful of official processing centers where they awaited a hearing or deportation. The Department of Homeland Security still runs seven immigrant detention centers.
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Posted by admin on Nov 7th, 2008
By Monisha Martins – Maple Ridge News. Nov 2008
A man who illegally entered Canada is on a hunger strike at a Maple Ridge prison. Mohammad Reza Nouri has been detained at the Fraser Regional Correctional Centre since Oct. 13, the same day he landed at Vancouver’s International Airport carrying a fake passport. The 40-year-old Iranian, who can’t speak English, was charged the next day under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act with one count each of illegally possessing a document to establish identity, using false document to enter or remain in Canada and communicating false or misleading information for immigration to Canada.
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Posted by admin on Nov 6th, 2008
Nov 06, 2008. Associated Press.
WASHINGTON–The U.S. government arrested and deported record numbers of illegal immigrants – nearly 350,000 – in the past year, authorities say. It has also naturalized a record number of new Americans during the same time period, more than 1 million. Bush administration officials consider these to be great accomplishments within a system that President-elect Obama calls “broken and overwhelmed” on his transition website.
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