During a time when new COVID variants are causing a surge of cases and deaths in the United States, the Biden administration has announced plans to reallocate $860 million worth of COVID funds from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to other agenc…
Detention Policy
Fifty-five years ago – on October 3, 1965 – President Lyndon B. Johnson (D) signed into law the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, also known as the Hart–Celler Act. While to some 1965 may seem like a very long time ago, that year’s immigration l…
An investigator is calling for the release of “high-risk” detainees at Farmville Detention Center in Virginia after more than 80 percent of the center’s 300 inmates contracted the coronavirus earlier this year. U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema order…
A year after U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) facilities were overwhelmed by waves of illegal aliens, conditions have improved in South Texas. Unannounced government inspections of five detention centers in Laredo and San Antonio last February …
The Adelanto Processing Center, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in southern California, has recently come under fire for its treatment of migrants amid the COVID-19 pandemic. On May 21, the Inland Coalition for Immigrant…
Claiming that the “COVID-19 pandemic has created momentum for alternatives to immigration detention,” the United Nations Network on Migration last month recommended that nations not only impose a moratorium on immigration detention, but give “migrants”…
Remember last May when, after a visit to a Texas immigration detention facility, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) charged that detainees were being forced to drink out of toilets? Corporate media reporters were more than eager to spread her narrativ…