Human rights groups ask UN panel to help end ICE’s effort to hide locations of detainees
The change affects more than 16,000 detainees and has blocked lawyers and families from tracking people facing deportation, advocates said.
- On Wednesday, human rights advocates petitioned a United Nations panel to intervene after ICE removed names of detainees with final removal orders from its Online Detainee Locator System on September 15.
- The agency removed the names in an apparent effort to accelerate deportations, a move immigration lawyers say has impeded access to legal counsel and devastated families who lost track of their loved ones.
- More than 16,000 detainees are affected by the policy, including a 7-year-old daughter and her mother who lost lawyer access while facing deportation to Venezuela, according to the petition.
- Separately, more than 45 House Democrats urged ICE to restore the names, while the petition requested the United Nations urge the agency to provide detainees' lawyers 24 hours notice before any transfer.
- Homeland Security denied the practices amount to disappearing people, stating the agency abides by due process, though advocates argue the locator is crucial amid President Donald Trump's sweeping deportation campaign.
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Human rights groups ask U.N. panel to help end ICE's effort to hide locations of detainees
Human rights advocates asked a United Nations panel to intervene Wednesday to help end a new U.S. government practice of withholding from families and lawyers the whereabouts of thousands of detainees facing deportation.
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Human rights groups ask UN panel to help end ICE’s effort to hide locations of detainees
Human rights advocates have asked a United Nations panel to intervene in a new U.S. government practice that they say amounts to the “enforced disappearance” of noncitizens. The practice involves withholding the whereabouts of thousands of detainees facing deportation from families and lawyers. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement removed the names of detainees with final removal orders from its Online Detainee Locator System on Sept. 15. Th…
Human rights groups ask UN panel to help end ICE's effort to hide
Human rights advocates asked a United Nations panel to intervene Wednesday to help end a new U.S. government practice of withholding from families and lawyers the whereabouts of thousands of detainees facing deportation. U.S. Immigration and Customs
Human rights groups ask UN panel to help end ICE’s effort to hide locations of detainees – WTOP News
Human rights advocates asked a United Nations panel to intervene Wednesday to help end a new U.S. government practice of withholding from families and lawyers the whereabouts of thousands of detainees facing deportation. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement removed the names of detainees with final removal orders from its Online Detainee Locator System on Sept....
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Human rights groups ask UN panel to help end ICE's effort to hide locations of detainees
Human rights advocates have asked a United Nations panel to intervene in a new U.S. government practice that they say amounts to the “enforced disappearance” of noncitizens.
Groups ask the UN to intervene, while lawyers report that the practice prevents their migration processes from continuing.
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