Opposition to Immigrant Detention Centers Mounts

Georgia detention center, Texas' usual suspects in spotlight

"...About 100 people convened at the Stew­art Detention Center in Lumpkin, Ga., on Sept. 15, after a..."

Oct. 5, 2007 News Feature by Patricia J. Ruland

Opposition to Immigrant Detention Centers Mounting

"...Approximately 100 people convened at the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Ga., on Sept. 15, after a..."

Sept. 27, 2007 News Post by Patricia J. Ruland

Court: Immigrant Detention Is Child Care

3rd Court of Appeals dismisses suit that challenged "family residential centers" that meet only minimal child welfare standards

"...minimize the standards protecting undocumented mothers and children in immigrant detention centers got their way last Wednesday, Nov. 28,..."

Dec. 7, 2018 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Pointing Out Detention Centers "In Plain Sight"

Sky-high art turns eyes to migrant detention and incarceration

"...tent, asking God to deliver her from the makeshift detention camp, when she heard the plane’s roar...."

July 3, 2020 Arts Post by Victoria Rossi

Texas Dems Want Stronger Immigrant Detention Oversight

More than 5,000 immigrant children in detention centers

"...Among their suggestions, MALC encourages increased transparency over youth detention facilities, including unannounced site visits from the Health and..."

July 31, 2018 News Post by Mary Tuma

ICE Draws Fire for “Sham” Detention Contracts

Local groups say U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shouldn't get away with sidestepping federal protocol

"...away with sidestepping federal protocol when it comes to detention center contracts. In a letter dated Dec. 5, organizations..."

Dec. 13, 2019 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Choosing Detention Over Death

Refugees come to the U.S. seeking protection, find detention instead

"...M, like so many other immigrants and refugees, was apprehended by Customs & Border Protection..."

Dec. 25, 2015 News Feature by Dina Samir Shehata

Fighting Family Detention

On June 1, a judge will consider whether to allow detention centers to be licensed as child-care facilities

"...the Obama administration revived the controversial practice of "family detention": incarcerating undocumented female immigrants along with their children. The..."

May 27, 2016 News Feature by Dina Samir Shehata

ICE Quietly Renews 10-Year Contract With T. Don Hutto Detention Center

Taylor prison houses largely asylum-seeking women and has been the subject of numerous accusations of abuse

"...Despite rising criticism of the conditions in its Texas detention centers, U.S. Immigra­tion and Customs Enforcement quietly renewed a..."

Aug. 21, 2020 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Detention Is Not Child Care

"The conditions at Karnes and Dilley are equivalent to prisons," said Bob Libal

"...Protective Services from labeling two of the country's largest immigrant family detention centers as child-care centers. The final order..."

Dec. 9, 2016 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Child Care Center or Baby Jail?

State allows family detention centers to skirt the rules and become child care centers

"...on the government to end the practice of holding immigrant women and their children in family detention centers, charging..."

March 18, 2016 News Feature by Dina Samir Shehata

Judge to Feds: Obey the Law

Orders Department of Justice to begin releasing children and mothers

"...was not only violating a 1997 consent decree concerning immigrant children but had provided little justification for doing so,..."

July 28, 2015 News Post by Michael King

How to Help Detained Migrant Families

Make an impact by contributing to these advocacy groups

"...With in-kind donations to detention centers being refused by Customs and Border Protection authorities,..."

July 15, 2019 News Post by Katelyn Landry

Advocates Call on City, County to Protect Most Vulnerable During COVID-19 Outbreak

Education, health, housing, justice addressed by list of demands

"...of demands that target public education, welfare, housing, worker, immigrant, and disability rights, medical services, childcare, elder care, law..."

March 16, 2020 News Post by Mary Tuma

Local Activists Call Out Police and Find Themselves Flagged as Threats

Doesn't take much to get on the watchlist

"...Austin Regional Intel­li­gence Center (ARIC) and other such "fusion centers" across the country. In recent weeks, we've reported on..."

Aug. 28, 2020 News Feature by John Anderson

Social Justice Advocates Call for Big Moves to Ease the Blow of Coronavirus

The most at risk

"...of demands that target public education; welfare; housing; worker, immigrant, and disability rights; medical services; child­ care; elder care;..."

March 20, 2020 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Amid New Immigration Policies, Local Attorneys and Immigrants Navigate a Broken System

Lawyers say the system has been thrown into "chaos"

"...expanding arsenal of ways to instill fear in the immigrant community, says Ramirez's attorney, Stephanie Taylor. The law that..."

July 26, 2019 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Immigration Update

Congress not making immigration legislation progress; and local immigrant rights organizers gather to call attention to those separated from their families via detention or deportation

"...Vegas called Operation Return to Sender, ICE arrested 109 immigrants. But they deported only 35. The rest were held..."

Sept. 15, 2006 News Feature by Diana Welch

The Duality of Southwest Key

An East Austin nonprofit in the immigration debate

"...represents an unsettling juxtaposition to the stark images of immigrant children being torn from their parents, to be sent..."

June 29, 2018 News Feature by Mary Tuma

AIRC, S-Comm, and the Fight for Immigrants' Rights

Immigrants' rights activists call on Commissioners to defund Sheriff

"...FY2015 budget requests to the Commissioners Court. Supporters of immigrants’ rights will be there as well, demanding that Commissioners..."

Aug. 13, 2014 News Post by Amy Kamp

Southwest Key Boycott Brewing?

Activist group calls for full boycott against East Austin nonprofit's programs

"...of the East Austin nonprofit's involvement in migrant youth detention. East Austin College Prep; Cafe del Sol; SWKey's Green..."

Aug. 10, 2018 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Barbara's Fire

Attorney, teacher, and veteran fighter for freedom, Barbara Hines retires from a career mentoring students

"...switching her focus to the similarly polarizing issue of immigrants' rights...."

Dec. 12, 2014 News Feature by Tony Cantú

Refugees Remain in Taylor Prison

ACLU files suit to spring children from 'residential facility'

"...of Austin. About four months ago, protests outside the detention center, organized by the human-rights coalition Texans United for..."

April 13, 2007 News Feature by Diana Welch

More Trouble at T. Don Hutto

Detainee alleges sexual abuse by guard

"...CoreCivic, the private prison company that operates the all-women detention facility, that Monterrosa was being sexually assaulted by a..."

Nov. 17, 2017 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Undocumented, Unafraid

Balancing fear and power in the wake of ICE arrests

"...But the Trump administration, with its xenophobic ideology and anti-immigrant fervor, has provided no comfort in ensuring her continued..."

March 10, 2017 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Cash Cows

The Huddled Masses

"...with newcomers. We love calling ourselves a nation of immigrants; we enjoy strutting around the world stage, portraying the..."

Dec. 18, 1998 News Feature by Lisa Tozzi

Austin Responds to the Refugees

As the Central American refugee crisis unfolds, an Austin movement to offer aid is playing out quietly, behind the scenes.

"...where refugees are dropped off after being released from detention centers to the custody of relatives while they await..."

July 25, 2014 News Feature by Tony Cantú

Lege Lines: Bills on the Move

Sine die looms. Do these bills have a shot?

"...a private prison company that would license family immigration detention centers as "child care facilities" in order to evade..."

May 12, 2017 News Feature by the News Staff

Immigration Storm Reaches Hurricane Strength

10,000 protesters crowd Austin's streets in support of immigrant rights

"...millions of people across the nation in defense of immigrant rights on Monday. The steps of the Capitol were..."

April 14, 2006 News Feature by Diana Welch

Activists Protest Southwest Key at CEO’s Home

Frente de Liberación Inmigrante call on Sanchez to break gov contracts

"...The protesters, part of newly conceived local immigrant rights group Frente de Liberación Inmigrante, walked from the..."

June 29, 2018 News Post by Mary Tuma

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