Citing US bishops’ report, Times calls for end of immigrant-detention system

May 18, 2015

Lamenting the “inhumanity and wasted expense of imprisoning people who could be working and providing for their families,” the editorial board of The New York Times called the United States’ immigrant-detention system “indefensible.”

“A powerful case for ending immigration detention, along with an array of alternatives, is made in a new report from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Center for Migration Studies,” the Times stated. “It traces how the system has grown immense, from housing 85,000 detainees in 1995 to more than 440,000 in 2013.”

 

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Further information:

• End Immigration Detention (The New York Times)
• USCCB: reform ‘inhumane’ immigrant-detention system (CWN, 5/12)