Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service

March 2012

• [Statement] LIRS Statement for Hearing: "The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's New Immigration Detention Standards"
• [Press Release] Karnes County Civil Detention Center: A Step in the Right Direction, But Better Options Exist

December 2011

• [Press Release] Despite Budget Woes, Congress Prepares to Spend More Money Locking up Migrants

October 2011

• [Resource] Lost in Detention PBS Frontline
• [Resource] Let's Not Give Up On Immigration Reform Quite Yet Huffington Post, October 9, 2011
• [Press Release] Human Rights First Urges Fulfillment of Detention Reform Promises  
• [Resource] ICE Detention Reforms: Two Years On National Immigration Forum, October 6, 2011  

September 2011

• [Resource] Companies Use Immigration Crackdown to Turn a Profit New York Times, September 28, 2011 
• [Resource] USCIS 'Don't Be Fooled By Copycat Immigration - Help Sites'

August 2011 

• [Resource] Consumer Warning for DHS Announcement

June 2011

• [Report] LIRS releases ATD report Executive Summary
• LIRS presents on the U.S. experience with ATD in Geneva, Switzerland

• [Report] InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights, Report on Immigration in the United States: Detention and Due Process
  
• [Report] LIRS contributes to International Detention Coalition, There Are Alternatives: A Handbook for Preventing Unnecessary Immigration Detention
• [Report] LIRS contributes to UNHCR, Back to Basics: The Right to Liberty and Security of Person and 'Alternatives to Detention' of Refugees, Asylum-Seekers, Stateless Persons and Other Migrants
• LIRS participates in panel to comment on Alternatives to Detention in the United States, in DC and New York City
• LIRS hosts a congressional briefing on Alternatives to Detention

• LIRS moderates panel at Detention Watch Network conference on Alternatives to Detention, in Austin, TX

• [Report] OHCHR Report on the U.S. under the Universal Periodic Review
• U.S. report on Universal Periodic Review highlights ICE reforms of detention system to international forum

• [Report] LIRS contributes to Year One Report Card: Human Rights & the Obama Administration's Immigration Detention Reforms
• [Resource] Prison Economics Help Drive Ariz. Immigration Law  NPR, October 28, 2010

• LIRS presents on Alternatives to Detention at the annual meeting of the American Immigration Council and Detention Watch Network hosted by American Immigration Lawyers Association, in Washington, D.C.

• DHS revises its policy on detention of refugees for failure to apply for green card

• LIRS briefing in Department of State consultations for the Universal Periodic Review
• LIRS submission to the Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review of the United States
• LIRS coalition supported submissions

• DHS announces new parole policy
• [Press Release] LIRS Applauds Parole Announcement and Calls for More Reforms to the Immigration Detention System
• [Report] Human Rights Watch, Jailing Refugees in the US Who Fail to Adjust to Permanent Resident Status

• LIRS moderates panel at Detention Watch conference on Alternatives to Detention, in Washington, DC

• [Resource] U.S. announcing an overhaul of immigration detention policies
  • U.S. to Reform Policy on Detention for Immigrants New York Times, August 5, 2009
  • Report Critical of Scope of Immigration Detention New York Times, October 6, 2009
• [Report] Department of Homeland Security, Immigration Detention Overview and Recommendations
• [Press Release] ICE to stop detaining families at Hutto effective immediately
• [Press Release] LIRS Encouraged by DHS Planned Detention Reforms

• LIRS raises concerns to DHS about trend of detaining invited refugees for failure to apply for green cards; LIRS builds coalition around issue.

• LIRS presents on Alternatives to Detention at the annual meeting of the American Immigration Council and Detention Watch Network hosted by American Immigration Lawyers Association, in Las Vegas, NV

• LIRS briefs Dr. Schirio on use of Alternatives to Detention domestically
• LIRS briefs Dr. Schriro on use of Alternatives to Detention internationally

• Sec. Napolitano appoints Secretary of Homeland Security and appoints Dr. Dora Schrio to review the department’s use of immigration detention

• LIRS and coalitions recommendations to the Obama transition team on detention and asylum reforms 

• LIRS briefing to the InterAmerican Commission for Human Rights on detention and Alternatives to Detention

• LIRS presents on Alternatives to Detention at the annual meeting of the American Immigration Council and Detention Watch Network hosted by American Immigration Lawyers Association, in Vancouver, B.C.