Organizations ranging from the ACLU to Human Rights Watch condemn the practice as “inherently cruel, inhuman, and degrading,” writes A. Naomi Paik. Protesters depicting detainees of the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) By A. Naomi…Read more →
(ANTIMEDIA) Much of the rhetoric that supports U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s ramped up efforts to deport undocumented immigrants focuses on the salvation of Western civilization. Advocates of heavy-handed immigration policies often simultaneously tout the superiority of the West and the threat it faces from outside infiltrators.
A prison guard on horseback watches inmates return from a farm work detail at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, La.
SAN DIEGO — A privately run immigration prison in San Diego forces its inmates to clean their own jail for a dollar a day or less, two prisoners say in a federal class action.
Detainees sleep in a holding cell at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing facility, Wednesday, June 18, 2014, in Brownsville,Texas. (AP/Eric Gay)
The Texas Senate on Tuesday gave preliminary approval to legislation that would make it easier for the state to license privately run detention centers as “family residential centers” in order to hold immigrant families in detention centers longer.
Committee to Stop FBI Repression | October 23, 2013
A Palestinian woman, Rasmieh Odeh, was arrested at her home this morning, Oct. 22, by agents of the Department of Homeland Security.
