Posts tagged 'immigration'
New rules still don't cover immigrants
Posted: May 18, 2012 | Tags: immigration
A zero-tolerance policy and a set of new rules to protect against sexual assault and rape in prisons nationwide were announced Thursday by the Justice Department. The new rules come nearly a decade after Congress mandated new rape protections for those behind bars under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) of 2003. But the new regulations won't immediately impact the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees immigration detention centers, as it still has 120 days to write its own rules to comply with PREA and another 240 days to finalize them.
The Investigative Reporting Workshop and PBS FRONTLINE documented ...
Members of Congress urge investigation into sexual abuse in immigrant detention centers
Posted: Jan. 17, 2012 | Tags: Frontline, immigration, PBS
Citing our October film Lost in Detention, 30 members of Congress are pressing the Government Accountability Office to look into the issue of sexual abuse at immigration detention centers:
… This review should include facilities run by the Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE), private facilities under contract with ICE to hold immigration detainees, and those public facilities (like county jails) also under contract with ICE. Additionally, please identify what steps DHS is taking to rectify the problem and suggest any actions it needs to consider in order to ensure that sexual abuse does not continue to plague the immigration detention system.
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Obama official under pressure after documentary airs
Posted: Nov. 10, 2011 | Tags: immigration
Cecilia Munoz, a former, longtime immigration-rights activist, continues to be targeted by Hispanic activists over her defense of the Obama administration's stepped-up deportation of illegal immigrants. The Washington Post reports today that families of immigrants are preparing to confront Munoz, now the director of intergovernmental affairs, Thursday in Phoenix, where she is scheduled to speak at a National League of Cities event.
Munoz was interviewed in the Workshop and FRONTLINE's co-production of the documentary "Lost in Detention" in October, during which she strongly defended the president's policies.
Watch Obama Official Defends Immigrant Deportations on PBS. See more ...
Arizona won't wait
Posted: April 16, 2010 | Tags: Arizona, immigration, Minutemen, SB1070
Update: Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed the Arizona bill into law on Friday, sparking protests and stirring up a storm of political criticism around the nation.
The Obama administration, fresh from its narrow victory on health reform, is expected to tackle immigration reform this summer. But in Arizona, often considered ground zero for undocumented border crossings, the battle over immigration already has come to a head.
This week Arizona lawmakers voted on what could become the toughest immigration legislation in the United States. Senate Bill 1070 passed 35 to 21 in the Arizona House of Representatives Tuesday. The bill would ...
