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This is a list of detention facilities holding illegal immigrants in the United States.The United States maintains the largest illegal immigrant detention camp infrastructure in the world, which by the end of the fiscal year 2007 included 961 sites either directly owned by or contracted with the federal government, according to the Freedom of Information Act Office of the U.S. Immigration and ...
The United States government holds tens of thousands of immigrants in detention under the control of Customs and Border Protection (CBP; principally the Border Patrol) and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). According to the Global Detention Project, the United States possesses the largest immigration detention system in the world. [1]
Immigration detention is the policy of holding individuals suspected of visa violations, illegal entry or unauthorized arrival, as well as those subject to deportation and removal until a decision is made by immigration authorities to grant a visa and release them into the community, or to repatriate them to their country of departure.
Beorn wrote that the best historical comparison for these detention centers was the Camp de Rivesaltes, a French concentration camp operated from 1939 through 1967, and then from 1985 to 2007. [citation needed] At various points in time, the camp hosted Spanish refugees, Jewish refugees, prisoners-of-war, Algerians, and other migrants. To ...
This category is for those facilities worldwide that are exclusively or primarily used to detain refugees, asylum seekers, deportees, and those accused of immigration violations, or that at one time or another have housed a significant population of immigrants for the purpose of adjudication or deportation.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has cited the centre as an "indictment of a policy meant to avoid Australia's international obligations". It was formally closed on 31 October 2017; however hundreds of detainees ("transferees" according to the Australian government) refused to leave the centre and a stand-off ensued.
The Nauru Regional Processing Centre is an offshore Australian immigration detention facility in use from 2001 to 2008, from 2012 to 2019, and from September 2021. It is located on the South Pacific island nation of Nauru and run by the Government of Nauru .
The 3 new immigration detention facilities in Lorengau on Manus Island have security and some services provided by Paladin Group under a contract worth more than $423 million. [citation needed] Christmas Island Immigration Detention Centre was once operated by G4S [21] but is now operated by Serco as of April 2019. [22]