Great Escape: Migrants Tunnel Out Of Swedish Detention Facility, Police Refuse to Conduct Search
Four migrants escaped a Swedish detention facility over the weekend after using a tool to tunnel a hole through the facility’s wall.
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Feds Build More Migrant Detention Facilities near Border in Texas
Construction is set to begin on temporary detention facilities at the Border Patrol’s Interstate 35 checkpoint and other locations in Laredo, Texas. The shelters are military-style general-purpose tents and can house 60 people per tent. Plans for the climate-controlled structures, designed only for short-term detention, do not include funding for contract personnel to staff the facilities.
Warren Financially Benefited from Private Prisons Despite Claiming They Are ‘Profiteering off Cruelty’
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) benefited financially from the existence of private prisons despite vowing to ban them on the grounds that they are “profiteering off cruelty,” a report from the Washington Free Beacon revealed.
Antifa Attacker of Tacoma Detention Facility Left Manifesto on ‘Concentration Camps’
The man who was killed after he tried to firebomb a federal detention facility in Tacoma on Saturday morning left behind a “manifesto.”
SCOTUS Declines Review of Central American Women Asylum Case
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a case filed by over 20 Central American women who petitioned to have their claims of asylum heard from an independent judge. The women claim they came to the U.S. illegally because they needed protection.
Illegal Aliens Suing Detention Center for ‘Forced Labor’
More than 60,000 illegal aliens housed in a Colorado detention center are suing for forcing them to perform housekeeping chores. They allege the center compelled “forced labor” in violation of federal human trafficking laws. The defendant contractors say the claims are unprecedented.
Hungary To Defend European Border By Detaining All Migrants
Hungary is set to introduce plans to detain all migrants entering the country until their asylum applications have been fully processed – a move the government says it expects will go off “like a bomb” in Brussels.
Sarkozy: ‘Put Suspected Islamic Militants In Detention Centres’
PARIS (Reuters) – France needs to get tough on militants by creating special courts and detention facilities to boost security, the country’s former President Nicolas Sarkozy said in an interview published in Sunday newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche (JDD).
Assault, K9 Abuse Charges Against Federal Border Agents Dropped
Charges of assault and animal abuse against two federal border agents were dropped in Sana Cruz County, Arizona, courts. A surveillance camera captured U.S. Border Patrol Agent Aldo Arteaga punching a juvenile detainee in the stomach in a Nogales Station holding cell on January 30, 2014. On February 15, 2014, a different surveillance camera recorded U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Agent Edgard Garcia forcefully slamming a 7 year-old service dog onto the ground. Arteaga was charged with assault and Garcia was charged with animal abuse.
Judge: Activist Attorneys Can Inspect Four Arizona Immigrant Detention Facilities
A federal judge in Phoenix ruled to allow attorneys representing immigrant rights groups to inspect four immigrant detention facilities in Arizona where the attorneys feel immigrants were held under “inhumane and punitive” conditions on August 14. The order comes following an enormous wave of tens of thousands of illegal immigrants who crossed the southwest border in the summer of 2014.
Woman Allegedly Attempted Suicide in Texas Immigration Detention Facility
A 19-year-old immigrant at a family detention facility is reported to have attempted to commit suicide after being told she was being denied parole and asylum. She was staying in the Karnes City, Texas, facility which was opened last year after a flood of unaccompanied minors and families crossed the border illegally. Another facility in Dilley, Texas, also had to be opened.
