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Detention and Asylum
A Closer Look Inside Arizona Detention Centers: Calling for More Access and Oversight
Driving up to the Central Arizona Detention Center (CADC), all you see is a vast empty stretch of desert reaching south to the U.S/Mexico border. Electric fencing and concertina wire ring the facility and armed guards patrol the grounds under the...
Alabama’s new law and the impact on immigrant families
Fifty years ago, Alabama found itself at the center of a national battle for justice and civil rights. The bus boycotts, freedom rides and efforts to integrate schools and universities are widely looked upon as watershed moments in the march...
Amalia Guzmán Molina: Working to Keep Immigrant Families Together
At Risk of Deportation and Thrown Into the Clutches of Known Killers
Read Michelle Brané's, Director of Detention and Asylum, piece in the Huffington Post, about Edmond Demiraj who, 10 years ago, agreed to testify against an Albanian mobster living in Texas who was charged, among o...
Children Left Behind: Number of Children in Foster Care Due to Parents’ Detention Climbs
Maribel was driving in Virginia with her one-year-old child when she was pulled over by a police officer, who asked to see her driver’s license. A Mexican citizen living in the U.S. without a visa, Maribel was arrested for driving without a l...
Delayed Justice for Guatemalan Mother Encarnación Bail Romero
Department of Justice Rule Fails to Shield Detained Immigrants from Sexual Assault
Last month federal charges were filed against Donald Dunn, a former guard at the T. Don Hutto immigrant detention facility in Taylor, Texas. Dunn is already serving time for state charges of sexual assault of detainees, and is now accused of...
For Immigrants, Is the United States a Safe Haven or Prison Ward?
This blog was originally published on the Huffington Post. Names can be misleading, and that is certainly the case with representative Lamar Smith's (R-Texas) new disturbing piece of legislation, the Keep Our Communities Safe Act....
Good News on Immigration But Keeping the Pressure On
By Michelle Brané, Director of Detention and Asylum, Women’s Refugee Commission, published on Huffington Post. Immigration and Customs...
Immigrant Detainees
Michelle Brané's letter on immigrant detainees in response to an article entitled "Getting Tough on Immigrants to Turn a Profit" has been published by the New York...
Immigrant Detainees Languish in Notorious Etowah County Detention Center
The Etowah County Detention Center in Gadsden, Alabama, houses immigration detainees along with county inmates. The facility, which on any given day houses over 300 immigrants, is notorious for poor conditions. It is hours away from any immigration...
Immigration Detention Reforms Are More Than Just Window Dressing
One year ago today, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), an agency of the Department of Homeland Security, released a report written by Dr. Dora Schriro, then Planning Director for ICE’s Office of Detention Policy and Planning.
Introduction of the Comprehesive Immigration Reform Act of 2010
It's Time to Protect Women and Children in Immigration Detention From Rape
Michelle Brané has a new blog out on the Huffington Post calling for the protection of immigrant detainees held in U.S. custody from sexual assault.
Join Us in Support of the HELP Act (Humane Enforcement and Legal Protection for Separated Children Act)
Immigration enforcement has drastically increased in the United States over the last few years. And children have become victims of expanded detention and deportation policies that are carried out without adequate consideration of the consequences...
Let's Not Give up on Immigration Detention Reform Quite Yet
Michelle Brané, Director, Detention & Asylum, writes about the need for reforming the U.S. immigrant detention system in this Huffington Post
Missouri Supreme Court Sends Case on Immigrant Parental Rights Back to Lower Court
New York City, January 28, 2011—On Tuesday, January 25, the Missouri Supreme Court sent the case of a Guatemalan woman whose parental rights were terminated following an immigration raid at her workplace back to the lower court for a...
New Videos from Our Detention and Asylum Program
The Women’s Refugee Commission has just completed a series of short videos on some of the most pressing issues facing immigrants and those seeking asylum in the United States. Learn more about the conditions they face, how their rights are r...
The Violence Against Women Act: Building on Seventeen Years of Accomplishments
As members of the Senate Judiciary Committee consider the remarkable accomplishments of seventeen years of implementation of the Violence Against Women Act’s groundbreaking provisions for victims of abuse, crime and violence, the Committee must a...
We Must Safeguard Women Detainees against Sexual Assault
When I first visited the T. Don Hutto family detention facility in 2006 to monitor the treatment of the parents and children detained there I was appalled at what I found. Young children wore prison jumpsuits and played behind concertina wire on...
