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Deterrent actions like this one are an important tool in our country’s efforts to stop countries from engaging in detentions with impunity, but they are deterrents of future behavior and no deterrent is going to resolve the ongoing detention of Americans that is going on right now. – Neda Sharghi	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There are far too many people in Saudi detention who don’t have the benefit of US citizenship to draw attention to their cases. Almadi was wrongfully detained, reportedly tortured, and released only after tireless campaigning by his son and international pressure, almadi’s release shows that strategic pressure works, and US officials should continue to press for release of prisoners and lifting of travel bans. – Abdullah Alaoudh	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The United States calls on the Assad regime to cease all violations and abuses of human rights, including but not limited to extrajudicial killings, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, and torture. – Antony Blinken	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The footage of this massacre, coupled with the ongoing killing and abuse of countless Syrians, serves as a sobering reminder for why countries should not normalize relations with the Assad regime absent enduring progress towards a political resolution, the United States calls on the Assad regime to cease all violations and abuses of human rights, including but not limited to extrajudicial killings, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, and torture. – Antony Blinken	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Zadachin is a Special Investigator assigned to the Chief Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. Zadachin ordered that a criminal case be initiated against Kara-Murza based on his speech before the Arizona House of Representatives. Zadachin requested that detention be ordered as a pre-trial restraint for Kara-Murza and defended this request in court. – The Treasury Department on Friday	Found on CNN 1 year ago
First it was 400,000 unread emails and 120,000 people in need of unemployment checks, then it was chaos and preventable criminal acts in our juvenile justice detention centers, and now Andy's sending checks to people who weren't even close to the disaster zone in Western Kentucky. – Ryan Quarles	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Mr. Safi came across the Rio Grande with a group of migrants after being beaten in another country and desperate to find a way to reach America to see freedom, unfortunately, his entry was at a non-port of entry and Mr. Safi has been held ever since in detention facilities. What happened over the last couple of weeks was a strategic and forceful effort to bring all agencies together to make the right decision for Mr. Safi. – Jackson Lee	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The government locks people up — often in remote facilities far from family and legal services providers — while erecting arbitrary barriers to accessing counsel, immigrants in detention should not have to struggle to have private conversations with their lawyers. The stakes are too high. – Emma Winger	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Bryan Valdez-Espinosa sincerely regrets Bryan Valdez-Espinosa criminal acts and I'm confident Bryan Valdez-Espinosa will live a law abiding life after serving what will likely be a lengthy sentence in a federal detention facility. – Melissa Larsen	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The Russian Federation has wrongfully detained Brittney Griner, the practice of wrongful detention is unacceptable wherever it occurs and is a threat to the safety of everyone traveling, working, and living abroad. – Elizabeth Rood	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The Government must either :( 1) detain them,( 2) return them to a contiguous foreign nation, or( 3) parole them into the United States on an individualized, case-by-case basis, these options operate in a hydraulic relationship : When it is not possible for the Government to comply with the statutory mandate to detain inadmissible aliens pending further proceedings, it must resort to one or both of the other two options in order to comply with the detention requirement to the greatest extent possible. – Samuel Alito	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We've seen a drastic, drastic increase in the use of this technology, this is an expansion of how DHS is defining detention. – Javier Hidalgo	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This is an expansion of how DHS is defining detention. – Javier Hidalgo	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Then you don't have to deal with detention centers or alternatives to detention. – Chris Chmielenski	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Democrats want to treat border detention facilities like an Oprah Winfrey show, you get free education, you get a free plane ticket. You get free medical care. You get free, free, free. It really has to stop and my bill is the first step in this process. – Lauren Boebert	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Then you have the officers there supervising over the Clark County Detention Center. – Christopher Peterson	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The interstate task force on illegal guns is an important first step. But we must also address bail reform and our pre-trial detention system, new York is the only state in the country that does not allow a judge to detain a defendant who poses an immediate threat to the community. Other states, as well as the federal government, allow judges to consider a defendant’s dangerousness. – Eric Adams	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
At this point, we don't have information that indicates that the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (CLETS) isn't working as intended on our end when it comes to the ability to access information regarding individuals entered into the system. Generally speaking, law enforcement are able to access information about an individual's probation or parole status by directly querying the supervised release file via CLETS upon the arrest or detention of an individual who is suspected of having committed a crime. That information should be available immediately upon being queried. – The Attorney General Office	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We need pretrial detention reform, parole reform, and free healthcare so that people having drug crises and mental health crises can stay out of jail. We need these things all across the country, not just for some people, but for everyone. – Wanda Bertram	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Eugene Sibick detention to date was not -- as has been asserted publicly -- a disgrace to our country. – District Judge Amy Berman Jackson	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It’s important to keep in mind that this is not a detention center, not meant for long-term custody. It’s not designed to hold criminal aliens, and it’s not a jail. – Chief Matthew Hudak	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It’s important to keep in mind that this is not a detention center, not meant for long-term custody, it’s not designed to hold criminal aliens, and it’s not a jail. – Chief Matthew Hudak	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There have been immense atrocities and horrific violence committed against American Muslims because of 9/11. We saw things like the Patriot Act, the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, and Guantanamo Bay and the indefinite detention of people without due process of law, i knew I had to do something to create the kind of country I thought America should be ; one based on justice and compassion. – Qasim Rashid	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We strongly condemn the arbitrary conditions of their detention, which reflect the brutality with which the military junta treats journalists. – Frontier Myanmar	Found on Reuters 2 years ago

Deterrent actions like this one are an important tool in our country’s efforts to stop countries from engaging in detentions with impunity, but they are deterrents of future behavior and no deterrent is going to resolve the ongoing detention of Americans that is going on right now.

– Neda Sharghi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There are far too many people in Saudi detention who don’t have the benefit of US citizenship to draw attention to their cases. Almadi was wrongfully detained, reportedly tortured, and released only after tireless campaigning by his son and international pressure, almadi’s release shows that strategic pressure works, and US officials should continue to press for release of prisoners and lifting of travel bans.

– Abdullah Alaoudh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The United States calls on the Assad regime to cease all violations and abuses of human rights, including but not limited to extrajudicial killings, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, and torture.

– Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The footage of this massacre, coupled with the ongoing killing and abuse of countless Syrians, serves as a sobering reminder for why countries should not normalize relations with the Assad regime absent enduring progress towards a political resolution, the United States calls on the Assad regime to cease all violations and abuses of human rights, including but not limited to extrajudicial killings, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, and torture.

– Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Zadachin is a Special Investigator assigned to the Chief Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. Zadachin ordered that a criminal case be initiated against Kara-Murza based on his speech before the Arizona House of Representatives. Zadachin requested that detention be ordered as a pre-trial restraint for Kara-Murza and defended this request in court.

– The Treasury Department on Friday

Found on CNN
1 year ago

First it was 400,000 unread emails and 120,000 people in need of unemployment checks, then it was chaos and preventable criminal acts in our juvenile justice detention centers, and now Andy's sending checks to people who weren't even close to the disaster zone in Western Kentucky.

– Ryan Quarles

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Mr. Safi came across the Rio Grande with a group of migrants after being beaten in another country and desperate to find a way to reach America to see freedom, unfortunately, his entry was at a non-port of entry and Mr. Safi has been held ever since in detention facilities. What happened over the last couple of weeks was a strategic and forceful effort to bring all agencies together to make the right decision for Mr. Safi.

– Jackson Lee

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The government locks people up — often in remote facilities far from family and legal services providers — while erecting arbitrary barriers to accessing counsel, immigrants in detention should not have to struggle to have private conversations with their lawyers. The stakes are too high.

– Emma Winger

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Bryan Valdez-Espinosa sincerely regrets Bryan Valdez-Espinosa criminal acts and I'm confident Bryan Valdez-Espinosa will live a law abiding life after serving what will likely be a lengthy sentence in a federal detention facility.

– Melissa Larsen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Russian Federation has wrongfully detained Brittney Griner, the practice of wrongful detention is unacceptable wherever it occurs and is a threat to the safety of everyone traveling, working, and living abroad.

– Elizabeth Rood

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The Government must either :( 1) detain them,( 2) return them to a contiguous foreign nation, or( 3) parole them into the United States on an individualized, case-by-case basis, these options operate in a hydraulic relationship : When it is not possible for the Government to comply with the statutory mandate to detain inadmissible aliens pending further proceedings, it must resort to one or both of the other two options in order to comply with the detention requirement to the greatest extent possible.

– Samuel Alito

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We've seen a drastic, drastic increase in the use of this technology, this is an expansion of how DHS is defining detention.

– Javier Hidalgo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is an expansion of how DHS is defining detention.

– Javier Hidalgo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Then you don't have to deal with detention centers or alternatives to detention.

– Chris Chmielenski

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Democrats want to treat border detention facilities like an Oprah Winfrey show, you get free education, you get a free plane ticket. You get free medical care. You get free, free, free. It really has to stop and my bill is the first step in this process.

– Lauren Boebert

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Then you have the officers there supervising over the Clark County Detention Center.

– Christopher Peterson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The interstate task force on illegal guns is an important first step. But we must also address bail reform and our pre-trial detention system, new York is the only state in the country that does not allow a judge to detain a defendant who poses an immediate threat to the community. Other states, as well as the federal government, allow judges to consider a defendant’s dangerousness.

– Eric Adams

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

At this point, we don't have information that indicates that the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (CLETS) isn't working as intended on our end when it comes to the ability to access information regarding individuals entered into the system. Generally speaking, law enforcement are able to access information about an individual's probation or parole status by directly querying the supervised release file via CLETS upon the arrest or detention of an individual who is suspected of having committed a crime. That information should be available immediately upon being queried.

– The Attorney General Office

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We need pretrial detention reform, parole reform, and free healthcare so that people having drug crises and mental health crises can stay out of jail. We need these things all across the country, not just for some people, but for everyone.

– Wanda Bertram

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Eugene Sibick detention to date was not -- as has been asserted publicly -- a disgrace to our country.

– District Judge Amy Berman Jackson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It’s important to keep in mind that this is not a detention center, not meant for long-term custody. It’s not designed to hold criminal aliens, and it’s not a jail.

– Chief Matthew Hudak

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It’s important to keep in mind that this is not a detention center, not meant for long-term custody, it’s not designed to hold criminal aliens, and it’s not a jail.

– Chief Matthew Hudak

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There have been immense atrocities and horrific violence committed against American Muslims because of 9/11. We saw things like the Patriot Act, the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, and Guantanamo Bay and the indefinite detention of people without due process of law, i knew I had to do something to create the kind of country I thought America should be ; one based on justice and compassion.

– Qasim Rashid

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We strongly condemn the arbitrary conditions of their detention, which reflect the brutality with which the military junta treats journalists.

– Frontier Myanmar

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

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