Staff, RestoreFairness.org AlterNet: Immigration. November 12, 2009. Esmeralda never realized that her experience in detention would match the trauma of discrimination she had faced back home.
Julianne Hing, Seth Wessler, ColorLines RaceWire. October 23, 2009. Families are being torn apart by deportation at the treacherous intersection of immigration enforcement and the criminal justice system.
Ari Melber, The Nation AlterNet: PEEK. June 27, 2009. According to a new Washington Post/ProPublica piece, Obama is drafting a new executive order to reassert authority over indefinite detention.
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. April 29, 2009. Sheikh Zoubir Bouchikhi has been held without bail at a private immigration prison in Houston for the past four months.
Amy Goodman, AlterNet. March 27, 2009. Tens of thousands languish in immigration prisons in deplorable conditions without receiving a hearing on whether their detention is warranted.
Marcelo Ballvé, New America Media. March 7, 2009. The hidden costs and other downsides of the program are not understood or are ignored by elected officials seeking to reap political dividends.
Donald Cohen, AlterNet. March 6, 2009. The structure of private detention and prison contracting creates incentives and behaviors that poison our system of criminal justice.
Editorial Staff, Frontera NorteSur. February 5, 2009. The uprising reportedly spanned two days, with inmates setting fires and possibly seizing guards’ communication equipment.
anthony romero, ACLU Northern California AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. December 11, 2008. An insider's look at unconstitutional military commissions.
Jennifer Lee Koh, Esq., New America Media. December 4, 2008. Government officials have convinced tens of thousands of immigrants to sign away their rights without consulting with an attorney.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. May 22, 2008. The idea that the government isn't trying to enforce its immigration laws is hogwash -- the problem is that it's all it's doing.
Kari Lydersen, In These Times. February 22, 2007. Thanks to U.S. immigration policy, children (including infants and toddlers) whose parents are in immigration courts, are being locked up at detention centers.
