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1/ Our “Trauma at the Border” report addresses child immigrant detention & finds that changes to asylum & the Zero Tolerance policy have created an unnecessary human & #CivilRights crisis bit.ly/2MGC1Wa #USCCRReports #HumanitarianCrisis
2/ It recommends that Congress “pass legislation that sets minimum safe, sanitary, and humane detention conditions” and that the Administration fix conditions in @DHSgov Inspector General report re overcrowding, food, sanitation #Immigration
3/ Report calls for ending the practice of housing immigration detainees in prisons & jails; prohibition on for-profit child detention centers; and closure of and prohibition on immigration detention facilities located on military bases
4/ Calls for @DHSgov and @HHSGov to withdraw Flores regulation for failure to comply with the terms and spirit of the Flores Agreement
5/ Calls on Congress to pass law providing that asylum seekers presenting at border crossings get bond hearing with immigration judge and that @DHSgov provide translation services in immigration detention for indigenous languages
6/ Calls on the Administration to reunify any remaining children with parents deported before, during, and after Zero Tolerance
7/ Calls on @DHSgov to provide adequate staffing to ensure detainees are not asked to care for other detainees
8/ Calls on the Administration to follow existing Immigration & Naturalization Act requirements on third safe country designation for asylum, and on Congress to require no funds be used to detain asylum seeker with established credible fear of persecution
9/ Calls on Congress to pass a law allowing Congress & @USCCRgov inspections of immigration detention facilities with short notice
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