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High Number of Women in Ice Custody Are Allegedly Being Subjected To Hysterectomies
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(Feminism)
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According to a complaint sent to the Department of Homeland Security, an immigration detention center in Georgia has subjected an overwhelmingly high number of women to undergo hysterectomies and is ...
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Created on 15 September 2020
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Trump Administration Attempted to Block Tell-All ICE Docuseries “Immigration Nation” Until After 2020 Election
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(General)
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... and Mexico has not paid for it.
ICE and the nation’s detention centers received a lot of media attention in 2018 because of photos and reports that showed inhumane treatment of immigrant detainees. In ...
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Created on 03 August 2020
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Your Feminism Isn't Intersectional If It Doesn't Include Prison Aboliti
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(Feminism)
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... Law Enforcement and Detention Centers
When we talk about issues with the U.S. prison system and law enforcement, we sometimes forget to include immigration detention centers and immigration and customs ...
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Created on 16 July 2020
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A Black 15-Year-Old Went to Juvie For Missing Her Homework
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(Living)
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... any form of detention or residential placement unless a young person posed a “substantial and immediate safety risk to others.” I think we can agree that forgetting homework is hardly an immediate safety ...
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Created on 14 July 2020
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Changing The Face Of The Border Crisis
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(Feminism)
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... at Customs and Border Protection (CBP) facilities. Images and stories shared from detention centers in Texas reveal groups of women sleeping on the floors of concrete, overcrowded cells. Many are denied ...
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Created on 03 July 2019
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"The Handmaid's Tale" Isn't America's Reality—But It Could ...
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(TV)
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... when we’ll wish we left sooner.
The show has the capacity to put viewers on their toes, to notice that the headlines we’re scrolling pass—children dying in immigration detention centers, anti-abortion ...
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Created on 14 June 2019
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Pregnant Detainee Delivers Stillborn Baby, Immigration Bureaucracy Likely to Blame
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(General)
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On February 21st, a 24-year old Honduran migrant in ICE custody delivered a stillborn baby at a Texas immigration detention center. She was six months pregnant and went into premature labor. In a joint ...
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Created on 27 February 2019
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Italian Court Gives Accused Rapists A Retrial Because Victim Drank Alcohol: Link Roundup
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(Feminism)
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Study Finds Hundreds Of Reported Hate Crimes In Detention Facilities
A study conducted by the nonprofit organization Freedom for Immigrants found over 800 instances of hate crimes and abusive language ...
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Created on 17 July 2018
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We Still Don't Know Where The Detained Migrant Girls Ar
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(Feminism)
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... change, these detention facilities for young women already had major issues, including a lack of easily accessible hygiene products such as pads and tampons; it’s likely that in larger centers, these items ...
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Created on 21 June 2018
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How To Help Immigrant Families Being Separated At The Border
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(Feminism)
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... remain in U.S. custody.
The second policy involves placing parents who have gone through legal asylum-seeking procedure at a border-entry location in immigration detention centers, which are mostly indistinguishable ...
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Created on 20 June 2018
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Brie Larson Calls For More Inclusive Film Criticism, Fewer 40-Year-Old White Dudes Reviewing "A Wrinkle In Time": Link Roundu
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(Feminism)
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... immigrant told an attorney with the Texas Civil Rights Project that she was breastfeeding her daughter in a detention center when federal officers tried to take her child away. “When she resisted, she ...
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Created on 14 June 2018
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The Private Prison Industry Is Still Alive And Well, And That Needs To Change
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(General)
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... corporations to profit off of the detention of human beings.
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Latinas Fight Restrictions on Women's Health in Immigration Detention Centers ...
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(Feminism)
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... (DHS) Appropriations Act. The act, which passed by a vote of 29-18 in the U.S. House Appropriations Committee, specifically targets women in detention by attacking their right to reproductive health care. ...
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