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New report documents trail of human rights violations against immigrants

“Guilty by Immigration Status” describes troubling rise in racial profiling, immigrant detentions that undermine promise of reform.


The report was produced by HURRICANE, the Human Rights Immigrant Community Action Network, an initiative of the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR).

Guilty by Immigration Status details how the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has built up over the last eight years an “immigration control regime,” whose goal is to deport everyone who can be deported. According to the report, DHS is almost exclusively promoting the criminalization of immigration status to detain and deport persons many times only for minor offenses.