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1 results foundAuthor: University of Nevada, Las Vegas. William S. Boyd School of Law, Thomas & Mack Legal Clinic, Immigration Clinic Title: The Conditions of Immigration Detention in Nevada: A Report on the Henderson Detention Center, November 19, 2013 Summary: The most recent statistics on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity show that ICE detained 429,247 individuals during the 2011 fiscal year. Compared to the number of immigrants detained in the last twenty years, this represents an enormous expansion of efforts to physically contain immigrants. Indeed, from 1995 to 2009, ICE expanded its daily detention capacity by 400%. During the same timeframe, ICE removals skyrocketed by more than 700%. In other words, ICE has paired a massive expansion of detention with a focus on aggressive efforts to carry out deportations. This sudden and unprecedented expansion of ICE's power and responsibility has placed immigrants in a particularly vulnerable position. Aggressive prosecution and expanded use of detention has simply added to the well-documented vulnerabilities that tend to characterize immigrants as a group. In the United States, immigrants are more likely than those born in the U.S. to lag behind in education, have trouble speaking English, and to be in or near poverty. Moreover, immigrants are less likely to report when they are the victims of criminal and civil violations. These attributes are exacerbated by the fact that most immigrants in detention do not have ready access to counsel because they are often detained some distance from their homes (and population centers generally), and the U.S. removal system does not provide indigent detainees with counsel. ICE's rapid and aggressive expansion of detention and removal, combined with the inherent vulnerabilities of the undocumented population, has led to grave concerns about the treatment of detained immigrants. As a result, ICE's Office of Detention Oversight (ODO) has audited correctional facilities where immigration detainees are housed.13 Yet these efforts have not resolved concerns about immigration detention. This report represents an effort to examine immigration detention conditions in Nevada and determine whether improvements have occurred at the Henderson Detention Center (HDC) since ODO performed its audit of HDC in 2011. Details: Las Vegas: Immigration Clinic, Thomas & Mack Legal Clinic, William S. Boyd School of Law, 2013. 54p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed August 22, 2014 at: http://www.knpr.org/son/images/people/immigrationdetentionnevada.pdf Year: 2013 Country: United States URL: http://www.knpr.org/son/images/people/immigrationdetentionnevada.pdf Shelf Number: 131908 Keywords: Illegal ImmigrantsImmigrant Detention (Nevada)Immigration EnforcementUndocumented Immigrants |