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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 Guantanamo Migrant Operations Center (GMOC) refers to a migrant detention facility at Guantanamo Bay detention camp and is a United States facility within Naval Station Guantanamo Bay (NSGB), on the coast of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba used to detain non-US citizens regarding immigration status.
Immigration detention facilities are required to uphold many of the same standards maintained by domestic detention facilities as well as international human rights laws and protocols. Facility officials are prohibited from violating the Eighth Amendment in the utilization of force to cause harm to inmates.
And significant space constraints in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities — and federal court orders forbidding indefinite detention — have forced the agency to release ...
The 558 individuals on the list were those whose detention had been reviewed by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal (CSRT). The list gave the detainee's ID number, their name, and their home country. The names of several hundred prisoners who had been released prior to the commencement of the CSRTs were not released.
This category includes detention centers, detention camps, jails, and prisons in the United States that primarily hold people who have violated immigration statutes, or who have lost their legal status due to a crime and are awaiting deportation.
The detention center is operated by the GEO Group on behalf of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. [1] The NWDC's current capacity is 1575, making it one of the largest detention centers in the United States. [2] Numerous hunger strikes have been launched by inmates of the NWDC to protest the Center's poor conditions.
During Trump's first term in office, from 2017-2021, immigration detention expanded at record levels, according to an ACLU report. In 2019, ICE detained an average of over 50,000 people each day.