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A guard escorts an immigrant detainee at an ICE detention center in Adelanto, Calif., in 2013. Immigration and Customs Enforcement may create new detention facilities around the country to hold record numbers of detainees.

As It Makes More Arrests, ICE Looks For More Detention Centers

6:46pm October 26, 2017

by Laurel Wamsley

Recent postings by the agency show its interest in sites near Chicago, Detroit, San Antonio, Salt Lake City and St. Paul, Minn., that could accommodate thousands of detainees.

A Statue for Our Harbor was published in 1881. It expressed the fear of Chinese immigrants, which led to the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act 135 years ago.

As Chinese Exclusion Act Turns 135, Experts Point To Parallels Today

7:28pm May 05, 2017

by Kat Chow

The law limited Chinese immigration and barred them from becoming naturalized U.S. citizens.

National

Private Prisons Back In Mix For Federal Inmates As Sessions Rescinds Order

7:37pm February 23, 2017

by Christopher Dean Hopkins

In dropping the Obama-era order to phase out private prisons, Sessions writes that a return to earlier methods allows the flexibility "to meet the future needs of the federal correctional system."

Amnesty International interviewed former Saydnaya detainees and then used architectural and acoustic modeling to reconstruct the architecture of the prison. The interview techniques were developed by Forensic Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of Lond

World News

Amnesty International: Over 17,000 People Have Died In Syrian Detention Centers

3:37pm August 18, 2016

by Alison Meuse

A newly published report from the human rights group cites horrific conditions in detention facilities operated by Syria's state security branches.

A view of facilities at the Manus Island Regional Processing Facility in Papua New Guinea in 2012. For years, the facility has been used to indefinitely detain asylum-seekers; Australia and Papua New Guinea have now agreed to close it.

World News

Australia, Papua New Guinea Agree To Close Refugee Detention Camp

9:11am August 17, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

The camp on Manus Island has been criticized by human rights advocates, and was declared unconstitutional by Papua New Guinea's Supreme Court.

Detained immigrant children line up in the cafeteria at the Karnes County Residential Center, in Karnes City, Texas, a temporary home for immigrant women and children detained at the border.

National

Texas Judge Refuses To License Child Care Facility In Immigrant Detention Center

6:59am May 06, 2016

by John Burnett

The judge blocked a state agency from licensing the facility inside a private detention facility for undocumented mothers and children who have crossed the Texas-Mexico border.

Attorney Julio Moreno talks to Shawn's family outside the Stewart Detention Center.

National

Even For Those Here Legally, High Stakes And Few Protections In Immigration Court

11:39am April 30, 2016

by Caitlin Dickerson

After conviction, non-citizens face deportation in a second system of justice that has different rules and fewer protections. NPR followed one man — and his family — through the process.

Detainees at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Wash., gather for a Sikh prayer service.

With Religious Services, Immigrant Detainees Find 'Calmness'

7:24pm July 27, 2015

by Liz Jones

In-house chaplains have helped detainees cope with daily frustration, even reducing violence in detention centers. But meeting the spiritual needs of people from all over the world is a challenge.

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