US Congress Should Reduce Immigration Detention Bed Space

Expand A Mission Police Dept. officer (L), and a U.S. Border Patrol agent watch over a group of Central American asylum seekers before taking them into custody on June 12, 2018 near McAllen, Texas. © 2018 Getty Images Re: Human Rights Watch research on immigration detention Dear Negotiators, As you continue to debate immigration enforcement and border spending, we write to urge you to consider two reasons, grounded in Human Rights Watch’s research, why Congress should reduce immigration detention bed space and should certainly not appropriate additional dollars to increase bed space: Every…

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