CAIR Coalition
Working to ensure all immigrants are treated with fairness, dignity and respect for their human and civil rights
CAIR Coalition brings together community groups, pro bono attorneys, volunteers and immigrants from the District of Columbia, Virginia and Maryland working to ensure that all immigrants are treated with fairness, dignity and respect for their human and civil rights.
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Features & Case Studies
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Deportation’s Hidden Victims – U.S. Citizen Children
In the first half of 2011, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported 46,686 parents who had at least one U.S. citizen child according to a March 2012 report by the agency. If deportations continued at that rate for the rest of 2011, that would mean that nearly 100,000 children who are US citizens had parents [...]
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ICE Pushes Ahead With Secure Communities, but Local Advocates Gain Ground
The last few months have demonstrated that despite widespread public opposition, ICE is determined to move forward with the controversial Secure Communities program. On August 5, 2011, ICE announced that Secure Communities, the program that allows state and local law enforcement and ICE to automatically and immediately search for both criminal and immigration history in [...]
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Population of Detained Immigrants in Virginia Increases Dramatically in the Wake of Secure Communities
The number of immigrants detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Virginia jails has nearly doubled in the last year. In 2010, the average daily population of immigrant men and women detained in Virginia hovered between 600 and 700. As of June 2011, the detainee population stands at over 1000. Currently, the facility with [...]
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video by Gentry Underwood
