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Twenty years since the appalling images of detainees in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq emerged, a civil lawsuit filed by some of those former prisoners will finally proceed. CACI, a Virginia-based contractor, is being sued for supplying the interrogators...
by C0RI0LANUS
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. How strange to be living through it a second time, however different the form. I’m thinking, of course, about a devastating set of...
by TomDispatch
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According to Reuters, the government of Nicaragua freed over 200 political prisoners who are being flown to the US, a State Department spokesperson said on Thursday (9 Feb). A dual citizen named Michael Healy is included in this unilateral clemency....
by C0RI0LANUS
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. It seemed obvious enough to me in 2006. When you included the CIA’s “black sites” around the globe (where prisoners from the war...
by TomDispatch
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on Tue May 04, 2021 at 07:33 AM PDT
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Donald Trump and his administration continue to dehumanize immigrants with their abusive tactics. Concerns have been raised throughout Trump’s four years in office in regard to how migrant children are treated including being separated from their...
by Aysha Qamar
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on Sun Sep 06, 2020 at 11:04 AM PDT
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When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) isn’t conducting raids or offering weapons training to individuals on how to arrest immigrants, it is treating immigrants in its detention centers wrongfully. In another incident of violating...
by Aysha Qamar
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on Wed Aug 19, 2020 at 04:45 PM PDT
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To no one’s surprise, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continues its nasty ways amid the pandemic—but one town in Oregon won’t have it. Hundreds of protesters came together Wednesday to block two ICE buses that held two residents in Bend,...
by Aysha Qamar
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on Thu Aug 13, 2020 at 04:30 PM PDT
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I don’t often post anything, but I was appalled when I read that Hampton Inns were being used to stockpile immigrant children as young as 1 year old in Texas in violation of a court orders and physically preventing attorneys from seeing them or...
by BabblingBrook
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on Fri Jul 24, 2020 at 12:19 PM PDT
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I’ve been aware that guards at private detention prisons have pepper-sprayed detained immigrants protesting their ongoing detention amid the novel coronavirus pandemic because I’ve written about it. Many Daily Kos community members have been aware that...
by Gabe Ortiz
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on Tue Jul 14, 2020 at 11:09 AM PDT
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It’s never a good time to be a detainee in ICE custody. Since the early days of the Trump Administration, we’ve seen photos of children in cages, heard first-hand accounts of families separated at the border and read about the plight of transgender...
by Paul Bland for Public Justice
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on Thu Apr 02, 2020 at 10:34 AM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. He was the candidate who, in a 2016 election campaign debate, swore that, as president, he’d “bring back a hell of a lot worse...
by TomDispatch
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on Tue Feb 18, 2020 at 09:27 AM PST
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The National Immigration Detention Hotline that was shut down by the Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) just weeks after it was featured in the final season of Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black has been restored. Freedom for...
by Aysha Qamar
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on Wed Feb 12, 2020 at 01:24 PM PST
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Apparently, someone at the Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement binge-watches “Orange is the New Black.” In an episode from the show’s final season, released in its entirety on July 26, fictional imprisoned characters use a toll-free...
by Jessica Sutherland
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on Sat Aug 24, 2019 at 03:50 PM PDT
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Michael Scott Moore was taken hostage in 2012 and held for 2½ years by Somali Pirates when he went to their homeland to research a book.
In his account of the ordeal — The Desert and the Sea: ...
by durrati
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on Sat Jun 22, 2019 at 02:07 PM PDT
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...With or Without the World’s Support according to a major news magazine’s afternoon report today. Blockquotes/links from multiple sources follow, ending (approximately), with “While You Weren’t Looking, General Haftar Has Been Taking Over Libya”.
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by mettle fatigue
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on Fri Apr 05, 2019 at 07:56 PM PDT
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A sheriff in Alabama has pocketed $1.5 million in federal funds earmarked for food for ICE detainees. You can read all the shocking details of this apparently legal scam in this investigative report published a few days ago by Al.com
This story...
by deemeegee
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on Fri Jan 04, 2019 at 02:58 PM PST
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This post was written and reported by contributor Dawn R. Wolfe through our Daily Kos freelance program.
A U.S. district court judge on Tuesday ordered ICE to release more than 100 Iraqis who have been held in detention centers and jails in Michigan...
by Daily Kos Correspondent
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on Tue Nov 20, 2018 at 12:24 PM PST
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This post was written and reported by freelance contributor Dawn R. Wolfe through our Daily Kos freelance program.
Attorneys for more than 100 Iraqi nationals who have been held in jails and detention centers for well over a year in Michigan were...
by Daily Kos Correspondent
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on Thu Oct 25, 2018 at 02:41 PM PDT
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This post was written and reported by contributor Dawn R. Wolfe through our Daily Kos freelance program.
Legal and civil rights groups in Michigan have sent a letter to the Calhoun County sheriff and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security asking...
by Daily Kos Correspondent
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on Fri Oct 05, 2018 at 12:53 PM PDT
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This story was written by Beck Feibelman for The Clyde Fitch Report. CFR produces and publishes opinion and reporting at the crossroads of arts and politics.
The US government is keeping would-be refugee and immigrant children in cages, disappeared...
by clydefitch
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on Thu Jul 05, 2018 at 08:14 PM PDT
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