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Republican Congressmen Mock Immigration Detention as a ‘Holiday’ for Immigrants
At a Congressional hearing yesterday, Republican committee members attempted to portray immigration detention as a “vacation” for undocumented immigrants. “Nobody who has spent even a minute in an immigration detention facility would characterize it as a ‘holiday,’” said PHR's Christy Fujio “Detention center conditions are often worse a criminal jail. Nobody wants to be there.”
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PHR Experts to Speak at Law Conference on Refugee Crises
Still Waiting for Tomorrow: The Law and Politics of Unresolved Refugee Crises (pdf), a conference in Boston that will explore the scope and consequences of global refugee crises as well as potential policy responses to these crises, will feature PHR experts.
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We lower ourselves through inhumane practice of solitary confinement
In a Letter to the Editor published by the Boston Globe on March 19, 2012, PHR's Christy Fujio writes: "Like the death penalty, solitary confinement is an inhumane relic that remains only because public opinion demands that we punish wrongdoers and never 'coddle.'"
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ICE Debuts New “Civil Detention” Facility for Immigrants
PHR welcomes the opening of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) first civil detention center in Karnes City, Texas and calls for continued reforms to the US immigration detention system.
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Michael E. Corradini to Speak at 2012 Immigration Justice Conference
Michael E. Corradini, JD, Asylum Advocate at PHR, will speak at the 2012 Immigration Justice Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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