U.N. Rights Panel Urges End to Detention of Would-Be Immigrants in U.S. Stephanie Nebehay - Thomson Reuters
go to original August 15, 2017

A U.N. human rights panel urged the United State to end the widespread detention of "would-be" immigrants, saying the practice has "grown exponentially" and violates international law. (Wochit Politics)

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A U.N. human rights panel has urged the United States to end widespread detention of would-be immigrants including asylum-seekers, saying the practice has "grown exponentially" and violates international law.

The holding of migrants and would-be refugees in custody is often "punitive, unreasonably long, unnecessary and costly" and should be used only as a last resort, the panel said in a 23-page report to the United Nations Human Rights Council.

Each year, an estimated 352,850 people are detained across the United States pending the outcome of their immigration proceedings at a cost of about $2 billion, it said.

The independent experts, who form the U.N. working group on arbitrary detention, were reporting on their mission last October at the invitation of the Obama administration.

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