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Daniel M. Kowalski
2 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Groups Sue for Information on Open-Air Immigration Jails
CGRS, Mar. 15, 2024 "Al Otro Lado and the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies (CGRS) have filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit to compel the government to release information on its policies and practices at open air detention...
Daniel M. Kowalski
4 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
ICE Subjected Immigrants in Detention to Unnecessary Surgeries, Report Finds
Raul Pinto, Immigration Impact, Feb. 2, 2024 "The Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (OIG) published a report last month finding that nearly one-third of medical procedures performed on immigrants in U.S. Immigration...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 1 year ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
DHS OIG Report: Violations of Detention Standards at ICE’s Port Isabel Service Processing Center
DHS OIG, Feb. 13, 2023 "During our unannounced inspection of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Port Isabel Service Processing Center (Port Isabel) in Los Fresnos, Texas, we found that Port Isabel complied with standards for...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 2 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
ICE Does Not Adequately Track Segregation at Immigration Detention Facilities: DHS OIG Report
Kylie Bielby, Homeland Security Today, Oct. 18, 2021 "An audit by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) has found that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) did not always comply with segregation reporting requirements and did not ensure...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 2 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
DHS Announces Alternatives to Detention Case Management Pilot Program
DHS, Aug. 17, 2021 "The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today announced a new Alternatives to Detention (ATD) Case Management Pilot Program (CMPP), which will provide voluntary case management and other services to ensure that noncitizens...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 3 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
DHS Appoints Luke Bellocchi Detention Ombudsman
DHS, Oct. 27, 2020 "Acting DHS Secretary Chad F. Wolf released the following statement on the announcement of Luke Bellocchi as the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Ombudsman for Immigration Detention. “Today, I am pleased to announce...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 5 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
DHS OIG Finds 'Egregious Violations' of Immigration Detention Standards
DHS OIG, June 3, 2019 "Overall, our inspections of four detention facilities revealed violations of ICE’s 2011 Performance-Based National Detention Standards, which set requirements for facilities housing detainees. This report summarizes findings...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 5 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Government Watchdog Report Says Texas Border Facility Was So Overcrowded That Detainees Stood on Toilets to 'Gain Breathing Space'
Abby Vesoulis, Time Magazine, May 31, 2019 "The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) found an El Paso Border Patrol processing center was so overcrowded that detainees were wearing “soiled clothing for days or weeks...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 5 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Groups Demand Release of Infants from Immigration Jails
AIC, AILA, CLINIC Legal, Feb. 28, 2019 "We write to bring your attention to an alarming increase in the number of infants being held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody. As of today, there are at least nine infants under one year...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 5 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
HHS OIG on Separated Children Placed in Office of Refugee Resettlement Care
HHS OIG, Jan. 2019 "What OIG Found In the summer of 2017, prior to the formal announcement of the zero-tolerance policy, ORR staff and officials observed a steep increase in the number of children who had been separated from a parent or guardian...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 7 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
DHS Subcommittee to Advise on Privatized Immigration Detention
Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 171 / Friday, September 2, 2016 - "The Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Jeh Johnson, tasked the Homeland Security Advisory Council to establish a subcommittee entitled the Privatized Immigration...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 7 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Will DHS Follow DOJ's Lead in Booting Private Prisons?
Aviva Shen, ThinkProgress, Aug. 18, 2016 - "The Department of Justice announced Thursday that it will stop outsourcing federal prisons to private prison companies after their current contracts expire. But that doesn’t mean the federal government...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 8 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
CARA Family Detention Pro Bono Project Files Complaint with DHS
CARA Family Detention Pro Bono Project, Mar. 28, 2016 - "We submit this complaint to register our ongoing concern regarding the detention of traumatized mothers and children in Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) family detention centers...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 9 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
DHS OIG Examines Conditions at Detention Centers for Alien Children
"The Office of Inspector General (OIG), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), today issued the first of a series of reports on conditions at detention centers being used to temporarily house unaccompanied alien children. The report is based on 87...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 10 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
DHS Publishes Detention Standards for Immigration Jails
"The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is issuing regulations setting standards to prevent, detect, and respond to sexual abuse and assault in DHS confinement facilities." - Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 45 / Friday, March 7, 2014 .
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 11 years ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
DHS Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: Standards to Prevent, Detect, and Respond to Sexual Abuse and Assault in Confinement Facilities
"The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposes to issue regulations setting standards to prevent, detect, and respond to sexual abuse and assault in DHS confinement facilities." - FR Doc. 2012-29916 Filed 12/18/2012 at 8:45 am; Publication...