Immigration Detainees

  • Who Are the Targets of ICE Detainers? [Website]
    Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, February, 2013
    “In more than two out of three (77.4%) of the detainers issued by ICE, the record shows that the individual who had been identified had no criminal record — either at the time the detainer was issued or subsequently.”
  • Immigration Enforcement in the United States: The Rise of a Formidable Machinery, [PDF]
    Migration Policy Institute, January, 2013
    “the US government spends more on its immigration enforcement agencies than on all its other principal criminal federal law enforcement agencies combined. In fY 2012, spending for the primary immigration enforcement agencies reached nearly $18 billion.”
  • Invisible in Isolation The Use of Segregation and Solitary Confinement in Immigrant Detention, [PDF]
    Heartland Alliance and Physicians for Human Rights, September, 2012
    “This report, the first of its kind, aims to examine the use of segregation and solitary confinement in the immigration detention system, share individual experiences, and provide concrete recommendations to eradicate the use of solitary confinement [...].”
  • Dollars and Detainees The Growth of For-Profit Detention, [PDF]
    Sentencing Project, July, 2012
    “Between 2002-2010 [...] privately-held ICE and U.S. Marshals Service detainees increased by 206% and 322%, respectively. In contrast there was respective growth of 28% and 67% in the number of state and federal prisoners held in private facilities.”
  • Immigration Offenders in the Federal Justice System, 2010 [PDF]
    Bureau of Justice Statistics, July, 2012
    “Apprehensions for immigration violations peaked at 1.8 million in 2000 but dropped to 516,992 in 2010 — the lowest level since 1972. Between 2004 and 2010, the number of Border Patrol officers nearly doubled, increasing from 10,819 to 20,558.”
  • Jails and Jumpsuits: Transforming the U.S. Immigration Detention System-A Two-Year Review, [PDF]
    Human Rights First, September, 2011
    “In July 2009, approximately 50 percent of ICE’s population was held in actual correctional facilities that also housed criminal detainees.”
  • Immigration Detention and the Law U.S. Policy and Legal Framework,
    Global Detention Project, August, 2010
    “The major factor driving the overall increase has been the sharp rise in individuals prosecuted for immigration offenses. Last year immigration prosecutions jumped 15.7 percent—from 79,431 during FY 2008 to 91,899 in FY 2009.”
  • Locked Up Far Away: The Transfer of Immigrants to Remote Detention Centers in the United States, [PDF]
    Human Rights Watch, December, 2009
  • The Myth of Immigrant Criminality and the Paradox of Assimilation: Incarceration Rates among Native and Foreign-Born Men, [PDF]
    American Immigration Law Foundation, February, 2007
    “[F]or every ethnic group without exception, incarceration rates among young men are lowest for immigrants, even those who are the least educated.”
  • Foreign Nationals in Michigan Prisons an examination of the costs, [PDF]
    Citizens Alliance on Prisons and Public Spending, April, 2006
    “The Governor should appoint an indepen- dent panel to review all alien prisoners, making recommendations for commutation and culling those who are eligible for removal before serving their entire sentence. The Governor should then request their removal.”
  • Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor... A Report on Due Process Issues in the Handling of Immigration Detainees in Massachusetts, [PDF]
    Detention Working Group - Massachusetts Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, July, 2005
  • USA: Unaccompanied Children in Immigration Detention, [PDF]
    Amnesty International, June, 2003
  • Beyond Locked Doors: Abuse of Refugee Women at the Krome Detention Facility, [PDF]
    Women's Commission for Refugee Women & Children, October, 2002
  • Immigration Offenders in the Federal Criminal Justice System, 2000 [PDF]
    Bureau of Justice Statistics, August, 2002
    “immigration law prosecutions double, 1996-2000”
  • Prison Guard or Parent? INS Treatment of Unaccompanied Refugee Children, [PDF]
    Women's Commission for Refugee Women & Children, May, 2002
  • Detained and Deprived of Rights: Children in the Custody of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service,
    Human Rights Watch, December, 1998
  • Protecting the Rights of Children: The Need for U.S. Children's Asylum Guidelines, [PDF]
    Women's Commission for Refugee Women & Children, December, 1998
  • Locked Away: Immigration Detainees in Jails in the United States,
    Human Rights Watch, September, 1998
  • Forgotten Prisoners: A Follow-Up Report on Refugee Women Incarcerated in York County, Pennsylvania, [PDF]
    Women's Commission for Refugee Women & Children, July, 1998
  • Slipping through the cracks: Unaccompanied Children Detained by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service,
    Human Rights Watch, April, 1997
  • Liberty Denied: Women Seeking Asylum Imprisoned in the United States, [PDF]
    Women's Commission for Refugee Women & Children, April, 1997

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