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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share These Civil Rights Advocates Toured Louisiana ICE Detention Centers. Here’s What They Saw. In late July, officials with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement provided access to three detention centers they operate in Louisiana to a group of about 20 civil rights advocates. Their tour included the Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center, located on…
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Kerry Kennedy for Newsweek: Your Financial Portfolio Might Be Funding Immigration Prisons
Tags Share Kerry Kennedy and the ACLU’s Alanah Odoms describe the growing humanitarian crisis occurring in ICE detention centers, and how many people might be unknowingly contributing to it through their investment portfolios. The article urges readers to divest from this “cruel detention network.” Read the full story here.
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News4JAX: A man spent 88 days in solitary confinement at the Baker County ICE detention center. His experience led to a lawsuit
Tags Share Two immigrants are suing Florida’s Baker County Detention Center, alleging abuse in solitary confinement. Guillermo Serrabi says officers pressured him to sign deportation papers, assaulted him, and denied medical care during 88 days in isolation. A second lawsuit, filed by “Ana Doe,” claims she was punished after requesting menstrual products and strapped into…
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100 años de Guillermo Cano Isaza: honrar la memoria, exigir justicia
Tags Share Hoy, 12 de agosto, se cumplen 100 años del natalicio de Guillermo Cano Isaza, periodista y director de El Espectador, durante más de tres décadas, hasta su asesinato el 17 de diciembre de 1986, en Bogotá. Su coraje, su ética y rigor periodístico lo hicieron un referente y ejemplo para generaciones de periodistas.…
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100 years of Guillermo Cano Isaza: honoring his memory, demanding justice
Tags Share Today, August 12, marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Guillermo Cano Isaza, journalist and editor of El Espectador for more than three decades until his assassination on December 17, 1986, in Bogotá. His courage, ethics, and journalistic rigor made him a role model and example for generations of journalists. Today, we…
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Louisiana Illuminator: These civil rights advocates toured Louisiana ICE detention centers. Here’s what they saw.
Tags Share In late July, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement gave civil rights advocates access to three of Louisiana’s nine detention centers, including the Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Alexandria that is now a hub for transfers from across the country. Advocates say the facilities, ringed with barbed wire and run like prisons, reveal…
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Louisiana Illuminator, ‘The Light Switch’ podcast: Inside ICE’s Louisiana detention centers
Tags Share Last month, a group of civil rights advocates toured three U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers in Louisiana, part of a network of nine facilities that have processed tens of thousands of people this year under President Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown. Among those on the tour were Kerry Kennedy, president of Robert…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share ‘Horrific’: Report Reveals Abuse of Pregnant Women and Children at US ICE Facilities A new report has found hundreds of reported cases of human rights abuses in US immigration detention centers. The alleged abuses uncovered include deaths in custody, physical and sexual abuse of detainees, mistreatment of pregnant women and children, inadequate medical care, overcrowding and…
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Democrat and Chronicle: ICE detention center guards in Batavia NY used force improperly: audit
Tags Share Recent federal audits reveal that guards at an ICE immigration detention center in upstate New York improperly used force against individuals held there. Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights’ Director of Strategic U.S. Litigation Sarah Gillman said, “The inappropriate use of force that was found in the audit are consistent with what the people…
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EDUCATION & SERVICE LEARNING: THE CORNERSTONES OF ACTIVISM
Tags Share In my very first meeting with Karen Robinson, she told me something that would echo throughout the rest of my summer: “Human Rights Education and Service-Learning is the cornerstone of our work.” At the time, I nodded along, thinking I understood what she meant. After all, I had taken my fair share of…
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The New York Times: Trump’s Immigrant Crackdown in New York: More Arrests, Longer Detention
Tags Share In President Trump’s second term, ICE has ramped up deportations in NYC by arresting migrants during routine check-ins at immigration offices and courts. New data shows over 2,300 arrests since January, many of them longtime residents with no criminal record. Inside detention, migrants report inhumane conditions, including lack of medical care, overcrowding, and…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share How Louisiana Built Trump’s Busiest Deportation Hub ICE wants to make immigration enforcement as efficient as FedEx or Amazon. Louisiana was poised for this moment. Since the beginning of the second Trump administration, more than 21,000 people taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have passed through the Alexandria detention facility.…
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