Detention
Questions Remain on Sedation of Deportees
Just when you thought you heard it all when it comes to the gruesome treatment of immigrants detained by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), we learn that immigration staff has overseen the sedation of 384 deportees over the past six fiscal years. ICE sedated 10 deportees in the last fiscal year alone. But that's not considered the news. Recent headlines are boasting that the figure represents ICE "cutting back" on sedating deportees with Haldol-a powerful drug that's commonly used to treat schizophrenia and such psychotic symptoms as hallucinations, delusions, and hostility. Cutting back? Read More
Madoff Scandal Hits Immigration Group
CBS Reports: "Groups that were helping the most, were hurt the most." Millionares, movie stars, and prestigious universities weren't the only ones affected by the Berni Madoff $50 billion Ponzi investment scandal. Dozens of public interest organizations have been hit by the disastrous collapse of Madoff's scheme, including the Heartland Alliance, which runs the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) and lost one-third of its funding. NIJC received a $720,000 grant this year from the JEHT foundation, a New York organization that funded groups working to reform the criminal justice system. However, the Madoff scandal has forced the JEHT foundation to halt all grant making-leaving NIJC without two thirds of the money it was banking on. Read More
Legal Fiction Denies Due Process to Immigrants
Over a thousand noncitizens face indefinite detention in the United States on the basis of a meaningless legal technicality. Read More
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