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Eloy Detention Center, located in Eloy, Arizona, is a privately run immigration detention center owned and operated by the formerly named Corrections Corporation of America, now CoreCivic. Eloy Detention Center is the third largest immigrant detention center in the nation with the highest number of deaths. (Photo by Elisabeth Morales/Arizona Sonora News Service)

Increasing immigration detention: sensible or senseless?

Elisabeth Morales April 6, 2017

The stark white walls, chairs, tables and ceilings were what first stuck out when Arizona State University researcher and professor Leah Sarat toured the privately owned immigration detention...

Over the past ten years, immigration backlogs have more than doubled. ( Chart: https://infogr.am/us_immigration_backlogs)

Justice delayed: Immigration courts drown in backlogged cases

Kendal Blust March 24, 2016

U.S. immigration courts nationwide are struggling under severe backlogs, despite the addition of nine immigration judges announced in February. Immigration spending has not kept pace with money...

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