Immigration

• Asylum seekers (like refugees)
• Unauthorized arrival
• Green Card holders with a past criminal conviction
• Refugees who have had any interaction with the criminal justice system

• Scared and Alone Indefinite Detention Threats
• Deportation Threats No Free Legal Help
• Isolated From Support System

• Lack Legally Enforceable Standards, Expensive
• No Legal Representation, Lack of Services
• High Rates of Depression and Anxiety
• Growing in Size

• Detainees are held in more than 200 facilities across the United States. Various facilities: County jails, Large dedicated facilities including private facilities.
• ICE operated facilities Range in size from 2 beds to 1500+ beds.
• Some county jails have contracts with ICE to hold friends in detention

• For-profit prison corporations see enormous financial growth when federal policies they encourage result in heightened criminalization of immigrants. Grassroots Leadership reports that together, GEO and CCA account for about 72 percent of the detention beds privately contracted for by ICE.22 According to Grassroots Leadership, “Both companies have significantly augmented their profits since the implementation of the quota, CCA from $133,373,000 in 2007 to $195,022,000 in 2014. GEO experienced an even more dramatic profit increase from $41,845,000 in 2007 to $143,840,000 in 2014, a 244 percent increase.

• Medical Neglect
• Quality of food
• Abuses from jail and detention center staff
• Solitary confinement
• Inhumane conditions

Detention can last anywhere from 3 months to over 2 years.