Reports

This policy brief examines the inappropriate use of deterrence as a rationale for immigration detention. The brief serves as a resource for advocates to push back against the argument that you can punish people to stop them (and others) from seeking safety, which disregards constitutional protections and the United States’ international obligations.

This report investigates the rapid growth of family detention in 2014, exposing the now closed Artesia Family Detention Center in New Mexico. This report describes how the government justified imprisoning asylum seeking women and their children — including babies, with the misguided (and now illegal) rationale that detention is a way to deter migration.