Detention Centres: Immigration and Judge

detention centres: Immigration arrests of dozens of Iraqi Christians prompt protest in DetroitU.S. judge halts Iraqis' deportation until court review U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith, who will hear arguments Wednesday, blocked the deportation of 1,400 people in July to allow time to challenge their removal in immigration court, according to CBC. About 275 people are jailed or in detention centres in roughly two dozen states. A federal judge in Detroit is mulling whether to release her father, Usama Sam Hamama, who was apprehended by immigration officials as part of a roundup in June, and hundreds of others whose deportations to Iraq were suspended but remain in custody. Government officials say the detainees whose arrests came amid broader, aggressive immigration policies by the Trump administration have committed crimes in the U.S. and must be deported now that Iraq will accept them. When your dad cries you know there's something wrong. - Source Earlier this year, the Department of Homeland Security said Iraq had agreed to start allowing the return of immigrants who have been ordered out of the United States. Advocates say the detainees many of whom are Christians who fear being tortured or killed if deported paid their debt to society and deserve to be with their families as their immigration cases wend through the system. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.