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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]
There were three types of camps for Japanese and Japanese-American civilians in the United States during World War II. Civilian Assembly Centers were temporary camps, frequently located at horse tracks, where Japanese Americans were sent as they were removed from their communities.
In some quarters, opposition to them returning from the camps began well before the war drew to a close. In June 1943, a Los Angeles women's auxiliary of the American Legion started petitions to ...
Life within the prison camp was difficult due to overcrowding, poor wages and lack of privacy. At its peak, the camp held 7,310 prisoners of Japanese descent, making it the 10th largest city in ...
Catalina Federal Honor Camp: Arizona 1951 United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island: California 1963 United States Penitentiary, McNeil Island: Washington 1982 Federal Prison Camp, Eglin: Florida 2006 Federal Prison Camp, Nellis: Nevada 2005 Federal Prison Camp, Boron: California 2000 Federal Prison Camp, Seymour Johnson: North Carolina 2005
With the 80th anniversary of Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 that created the World War II camps, advocates seek full reparations for the internees from Latin America.
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.