Immigration
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Pressure to shut down Louisiana detention center mounts with release of reported abuses
Tags Share Reckon Media highlights a new report co-authored by Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights that documents years of abuse and torture at Winn Correctional Center in Lousiana. Staff attorney Sarah Decker comments on Winn’s history of human rights violations, including abusive use of solitary confinement. “We very frequently see ICE weaponizing solitary confinement,” she…
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Pine Prairie ICE Processing Center, notorious detention facility in Louisiana, to close by the end of the year
Share After years of advocacy, reporting, and legal action by RFK Human Rights, grassroots organizations, and detained individuals, Pine Prairie ICE Processing Center, a for-profit immigrant detention center run by the GEO Group, is expected to end its operations by the end of the year. Pine Prairie has long been plagued by egregious human rights…
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Citing history of alleged abuse, groups call on ICE to end contract at former La. prison
Tags Share Speaking with Verite News, our staff attorney Sarah Decker calls on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to shut down Winn Correctional Center, a Louisiana ICE detention center with a long history of violence, abuse and negligence.
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Address at the Day of Affirmation at the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
For two centuries, my own country has struggled to overcome the self-imposed handicap of prejudice and discrimination based on nationality, social class or race
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Address, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society
There is a new world about us— beset by hunger, energized by revolution, largely controlled by that half of the world’s people who are under the age of 25.
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Excerpt from Quote Magazine
Of some 400,000 domestic migratory workers, 92,000 could find work for less than 25 days in 1960. The remainder, who’d worked more than 25 days, earned an average of $1,000 for the year.
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Remarks to Senate
No group of immigrants made greater contributions to America than the Irish. Railroads and factories, schools and hospitals, and churches—
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Address at Kentucky’s Centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, Freedom Hall, Louisville, Kentucky
Oscar Handlin, the historian, observed: “Once I thought to write a history of immigrants in America. Then I discovered that immigrants were American history.” Let us remember that history and look with confidence to the future, recognizing that our investment in new citizens will be repaid thousands of times over.
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Speech at the Law Day Exercises of the University of Georgia Law School, Athens, Georgia
It is my conviction that there are few areas in our law which more urgently demand reform than our present unfair system of choosing the immigrants we will allow to enter the United States. It is a source of embarrassment to us around the world. It is a source of loss to the economic and…
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Excerpt from Quote Magazine
It is a source of anguish to many of our own citizens with relatives abroad . . . Under the law, an American citizen born in one country can get a maid or gardener overnight from another country but must wait a year or more to be reunited with his mother.
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Address at the Irish Institute, April 1, 1967
The time is long past when men bowed their heads or looked away from our heritage because of shame; indeed, the long roll of Senators and playwrights, poets and heroes, has given us full reason for pride.
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Address at the American G.I. Forum, Chicago, Illinois
The contributions made to this country by Spanish-derived culture through the ages are incalculable.
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