News

What's going on in the world of immigration detention and deportation? Read articles about detention, DWN and its members and learn about current legislation related to detention and deportation issues.
Detention News
  1. Dozens arrested in raids at courthouses (The Providence Journal)
    PROVIDENCE - Federal immigration agents and state police raided six Rhode Island courthouses yesterday, arresting dozens of people employed by two contractors hired by the state. The detainees are all believed to be maintenance workers. The raid led to a noisy demonstration by at least 100 people outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office at 200 Dyer St. last night. Police officers arrived as the crowd grew; at one point police pushed a line of demonstrators across the parking lot.

  2. When an immigrant mom gets arrested (ColorLines)
    "I know firsthand what it is like to be abandoned. And now this is what my baby will grow up thinking happened to him."

  3. Immigrants find solace after storm of arrests (New York Times)
    POSTVILLE, Iowa - Back in 2002, before all the trouble, the Rev. Paul Ouderkirk retired from St. Bridget's Roman Catholic Church here, his last station in 43 years of ministry. He built a home 35 miles away in a town along the Mississippi, and he indulged a passion for family history, tracing his lineage to an ancestor who had arrived in New Amsterdam with the Dutch East India Company.

DWN in the News
  1. Locked and loaded-GEO Group will incarcerate more immigrants (Weekly Volcano)
    Tacoma officials have confirmed that Florida-based private prison corporation the GEO Group has plans to expand a prison for immigrants on the Tacoma tide flats by 50 percent, providing capacity for more than 1,500 prisoners.

  2. ICE raids continue, Reid discusses reform (New America Media)
    Last week in Washington, in a speech before the National Association of Latino Elected Officials (NALEO), Senate majority leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., discussed immigration reform. "We have to do something to bring people out of the shadows," he said. We have ten to twelve million people here who have papers that aren't in good shape. We have to put these people on a pathway to legalization; a pathway to citizenship.

  3. ICE officials' Testimony On Detainee Medical Care Called Into Question (CQPolitics.Com)
    Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials testifying before Congress have misrepresented the standard of medical care available to immigrants in custody, detainee advocates say.

Legislation
  1. Better Health Care Sought for Detained Immigrants (NY Times)
    The head of a Congressional subcommittee looking into complaints of inadequate medical care in immigration detention announced on Tuesday that she had introduced legislation to set mandatory standards for care and to require that all deaths be reported to the Justice Department and Congress.

  2. Immigrants' Families Ask Schumer To Oppose Deportation Of Parents (NY1 News)
    Immigrant families demanded Saturday that Senator Schumer support legislation that would decrease deportation of immigrant parents with native-born children. NY1’s Ty Chandler filed the following report.

  3. Pa. senator's bill to put pressure on countries to repatriate alien nationals [HS Today (Homeland Security Insight and Analysis)
    A proposal now introduced in the US House of Representatives would compel foreign nations to take back foreign nationals deported from the United States or face a mandatory denial of US visas to citizens of those countries as well as reductions or elimination of US foreign aid to those countries, Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), who first introduced the bill in the Senate, announced Thursday.