detention

Krome Detention Center in Miami Launches New Program To Speed Up Court Proceedings

Hector Chichoni
January 05, 2009 16:45

DHS' Krome Detention Center in Miami launched a new program aimed to speed up immigration court proceedings immigrants facing deportation. According to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Krome Detention Center has cut an average of 13 days off the time it takes to process deportation cases. An...

'Nuff said

January 04, 2009 11:01

(Occasional item taking context-optional note of thought-provoking quotes)She says her mother once hit her so hard with a table tennis bat that it broke, but considers that normal for West Virginia.-- account of an interview with Lynndie England (right), a onetime U.S. Army private and 1 of the...

Go On! Liberty & security amid global threats

December 23, 2008 17:16

(Go On! is an occasional item on events of interest) While many of us in the United States have sought to expose the devils in the details of post-9/11 policies, an esteemed Paris colleague has taken on the valuable task of drawing the big picture.The work of Mireille Delmas-Marty (above),...

Publications: African Migration, Asylum Policy/EU, Detention, Displaced Children/Education, Rohingya, Western Sahara

December 22, 2008 15:41

Amnesty International's Recommendations to the Czech Presidency of the EU (Amnesty International, Dec. 2008) [text] Conflict, Disasters, and No Jobs: Reasons for International Migration from Sub-Saharan Africa, Research Paper No. 2008/85 (UNU-WIDER, Oct. 2008) [text via Human Security...

Closing Guantánamo 'Responsibly'

December 20, 2008 06:56

Unsurprisingly enough, Barack Obama has been named the Time Person of the Year for 2008. Interestingly, in the piece, President-elect Obama’s pledge to close Guantánamo Bay “in a responsible way” is cited (BBC Report). This raises the obvious, although interesting, question of what we mean by closin...