The Commission's report adds to calls for the Department of Homeland Security to release detained children and mothers.
By Molly Jackson, Christian Science Monitor
September 20, 2015
The US Commission on Civil Rights released a report Thursday strongly criticizing the Obama administration’s immigration detention centers, which, for the past two years, have housed record-setting numbers of families and unaccompanied minors fleeing violence in Central America.
The commission, an independent government body created in 1957 and tasked with ensuring that the federal government fairly enforces civil rights laws, calls on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to release all detained families, reduce its reliance on long-term detention, and improve detainees’ legal access and protection from abuse.
The report follows months of confusion about how to efficiently yet humanely process asylum claims from tens of thousands who have entered illegally along the US-Mexican border in a sudden uptick that many blame on drug-related violence.[...]
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http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/USA-Update/2015/0920/Civil-Rights-Commission-Detention-centers-violate-immigrants-constitutional-rights
By Molly Jackson, Christian Science Monitor
September 20, 2015
The US Commission on Civil Rights released a report Thursday strongly criticizing the Obama administration’s immigration detention centers, which, for the past two years, have housed record-setting numbers of families and unaccompanied minors fleeing violence in Central America.
The commission, an independent government body created in 1957 and tasked with ensuring that the federal government fairly enforces civil rights laws, calls on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to release all detained families, reduce its reliance on long-term detention, and improve detainees’ legal access and protection from abuse.
The report follows months of confusion about how to efficiently yet humanely process asylum claims from tens of thousands who have entered illegally along the US-Mexican border in a sudden uptick that many blame on drug-related violence.[...]
Read the full article:
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/USA-Update/2015/0920/Civil-Rights-Commission-Detention-centers-violate-immigrants-constitutional-rights