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Dec 12, 2013
Think Progress: U.S. Officials Systemically Abused Immigrants And Took Their Possessions
Think Progress reports the release of yet another study exposing the government’s negligently supervised immigrant detention program. “Migrant Mistreatment While in U.S. Custody” a joint investigative study by Immigration Policy Center, the University of Arizona, and George Washington University, determined that unsupervised border patrol agents consistently mistreated and even abused immigrants at detention centers. For years the ACLU has advocated that the immigrant lock-up system was not only a waste of tax payers’ money but fostered inhumane treatment of inmates; that pressure, as the article notes, has led to some minor improvements:
Jun 25, 2012
Supreme Court decision in Arizona v. U.S.
ACLU of Illinois response to today’s Supreme Court decision in Arizona v. U.S. regarding the State of Arizona’s harsh anti-immigration law:
Feb 09, 2012
ACLU: Standing up for fairness to immigrants in Cook County
On Thursday, February 9th, the ACLU of Illinois will join with other concerned groups and individuals from across Cook County to oppose bills that would gut a County ordinance that limits County assistance to the federal Bureau for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
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