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Immigration Detention Watch Network

Stop the use/expansion of immigration detention!

About Me


The Detention Watch Network (DWN) is the only national coalition in the United States that addresses the immigration detention and enforcement crisis head-on and helps detainees and their loved ones make their voices heard. Formed in 1997 in response to the rapid growth of the immigration detention system in the United States, DWN is a network of individuals and organizations working in support of, and in service to, immigrants in detention. For more information, see Detention Watch Network website
Find a legal service provider in your state with DWN's Interactive Map
NOTE ABOUT POLITICAL CANDIDATE PROFILES AND CAMPAIGNS: Detention Watch Network (DWN) is a coalition of organizations and individuals working to educate the public and policymakers about the US immigration detention and deportation system and advocate for humane reform. DWN does not take positions as an entity, but facilitates the advocacy of its members. We do not engage in any electoral work and cannot include any information from candidates in our comments, friends or blog components of this MySpace profile.

My Interests


Our Mission: Standing in solidarity with immigrants, the Detention Watch Network (DWN) works to change the U.S. immigration detention system so that all who come to our shores receive fair and humane treatment.

I'd like to meet:

Individuals and organizations interested in advocating for the rights of immigrants, asylum-seekers, refugees and their families that have been affected by detention and deportation in the United States.

Music:

Find a legal service provider in your state with DWN's Interactive Map

Movies:

LOS ANGELES: Immigrant rights activists marched through downtown Los Angeles in support of Elvira Arellano, a recently deported immigrant from Mexico who spent nearly a year huddled inside a Chicago church to avoid being separated from her U.S.-born son.

Clips from Los Angeles press conference 5/31/07

Video on the plight of detained immigrants at the Stewart County Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia:
Children Confined: Immigrant Detention at Hutto in Texas by the ACLU "A Day To Remember" (December 12, 2006) coverage of the raid of Swift and Company meatpacking plants in Greeley, CO as it was happening: American Friends Service Committee : Trailer for "Rights on the Line: Vigilantes at the Border" Here's how immigration bills become law (from Schoolhouse Rock "I'm Just a Bill"):
Also see these excellent films:

    "Sentenced Home" "Questions over Palestinian family locked up for 3 months" "Interviews with Detained Immigrants" "Out of Status" See "Children of Men" (on DVD now) for a vision of what immigration detention could be like in the future. You can see a few glimpses in the trailer (click here)

Television:

    PBS: "Sentenced Home" CourtTV: "Chasing Freedom"

Books:

    "Targeted: National Security and the Business of Immigration" by Deepa Fernandes "American Gulag" by Mark Dow "Do They Hear You When You Cry?" by Fauziya Kassindja (from Oprah's Book Club) "America: A Freedom Country" by Lutheran Immigrant and Refugee Services “'Why Am I Here?': Children in Immigration Detention" by Amnesty International USA "Other People’s Blood: US Immigration Prisons in the Reagan Decade" by Robert Kahn "Detained : Immigration Laws and the Expanding I.N.S. Jail Complex" by Michael Welch "We Are All Suspects Now" by Tram Nguyen

Heroes:



Find a legal service provider in your state with DWN's Interactive Map

Other great organizations and websites:

    STANDING FIRM: An on-line Community for Immigrant Rights Families for Freedom American Friends Service Committee advocacy blog Immigration Orange Immigration Prof Blog Migra Matters Dreams Across America
For Detention Center maps, see:
  • National Immigrant Justice Center
  • AFSC Newark Office

    • My Blog

    Changes to the Immigration Court Rules 2008 Webinar

    Catholic Legal Immigration Network (CLINIC) invites you to join its webinar entitled "Changes to the Immigration Court Rules 2008" on July 2, 2008. This webinar is free to IAN members. The only costs ...
    Posted by Immigration Detention Watch Network on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:12:00 PST

    The Womens Commission Calls on ICE to Follow Congressional Directives on Family Detention

    The Women's Commission Calls on ICE to Follow Congressional Directives on Family Detention June 12, 2008 (New York, NY) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On June 16, 2008, the U.S. government will be ano...
    Posted by Immigration Detention Watch Network on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:10:00 PST

    Nasvhille Scene Blasts CCA, Hutto

    Locked and Loaded: CCA, the private jailer and one of Nashville's richest companies, is facing heightened scrutiny after a year of particularly heinous controversies http://www.nashvillescene.com/S...
    Posted by Immigration Detention Watch Network on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:09:00 PST

    The National Coalition of South Asian Organizations Invites You to a Briefing (June 24th, 2008)

    what: Members of the National Coalition of South Asian Organizations (NCSO) from Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Connecticut, Houston, Los Angeles, Michigan, New York City, New Jersey, San Francisco, Seat...
    Posted by Immigration Detention Watch Network on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:08:00 PST

    Deportation 101 Training in NJ

    Know the Facts to Organize Impacted Communities NYSDA Immigrant Defense Project (IDP) and Families for Freedom (FFF) invite you to a FREE daylong training on detention, deportation and the criminal ju...
    Posted by Immigration Detention Watch Network on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:07:00 PST

    HATEWATCH: NATIVISM IN THE NEWS

    HATEWATCH: NATIVISM IN THE NEWS ---------------------------------------------------- An e-newsletter monitoring extremism in the anti-immigration movement For the week of June 17, 2008 [AZ] Cleric...
    Posted by Immigration Detention Watch Network on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:35:00 PST

    Dems raise stakes on immigration

    Photo: Between 300,000 to 450,000 illegal immigrants are convicted of crimes and detained each year in federal, state, county and local facilities. Photo: APDems raise stakes ...
    Posted by Immigration Detention Watch Network on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:33:00 PST

    Call For Stories of Detention!

    Attention Detention Watch Network Members, Supporters, & Allies!     The DWN Story Project is Back!   Please Share Your Stories of those affected by the detention and deportat...
    Posted by Immigration Detention Watch Network on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:20:00 PST

    [Nativismwatch] Summary of Articles for June 16, 2008

    "It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners."  Albert Camus     .. Center for New Community www.newcomm.org -------------------------------------------...
    Posted by Immigration Detention Watch Network on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:13:00 PST

    Detention & Deportation News

    Index: 1. SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS,CA: REP. LEE LASHES OUT AGAINST ICE 2. FRESNO BEE,CA: BILL TAKES FAMILY FROM IMMINENT DEPORTATION AND INTO LIMBO 3. POINT REYES LIGHT,CA: RAIDS AND IMMIGRATION SCHIZOP...
    Posted by Immigration Detention Watch Network on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:25:00 PST