Immigration detainees represent the fastest growing segment of the ______ population in the U.S.
What is jail
100
Detainees have fewer due process rights than are granted to ______ _______
What is American prisoners
100
The SOS movement in California endorsed what?
What is Prop 187
100
This act allowed Cubans and Haitians entering the U.S. before January 1981 to stay in the U.S. on a 2 year trial basis
What is Cuban-Haitian Entrant Act
100
By 1981 the average stay in an INS detention facility was less than __ days
What is 4
200
The INS contracts out the care of approximately what percentage of all detainees to local/municipal jails?
What is 60%
200
Less than __% of detainees receive attorney assistance
What is 11%
200
The admission of 215,000 Cubans from January 1959 - October 1962 marked the first time the U.S. was a country of ____ _____
What is first asylum
200
More than _____ aliens were detained in the first ten weeks following the attacks of 9/11
What is 1,200
200
By 1991 the average stay in an INS detention facility more than doubled to ___ days
What is 54
300
In 1994 the INS held custody of ______ detainees
What is 5,500
300
Why do most detainees not receive attorney assistance?
What is if they can't afford one, one is not appointed to them
300
In 1980 the U.S. had a flood of poor Cuban immigrants because of Castro's decision to _____ _____ ______
What is open Mariel Harbor
300
Between 1979 - 1985 over half a million _____, ______, and _____, came to the U.S. seeking asylum
What is Salvadorans, Guatemalans, and Nicaraguans
300
What year did the Cubans who benefited from the $1.4 billion federally funded Cuban Refugee Program arrive?
What is 1970s
400
In 1997 the number of detainees in INS custody rose to ____
What is 16,000
400
These 2 acts criminalized immigration violations to an extraordinary degree
What is the Anti-terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA)
400
The INS concluded that Haitians were in the aggregate _____ _____, despite them being able to prove their need for asylum
What is economic refugees
400
What was the goal of California's Prop 187?
What is to make illegal aliens ineligible for public benefits
400
In the response to the influx of undocumented Central Americans, the Bush administration confined them to ______ ______ in South Texas
What is detention centers
500
By what year was the INS detaining on average 19,500 non US citizens on any given day?
What is 2001
500
This Supreme Court case made indefinite, potentially permanent, detention of immigration detainees unconstitutional
What is Zadvyas v. Davis
500
Why did the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommend that Haitians be excluded from donating blood?
What is because of the higher incidences of AIDS in Haiti than the U.S. they believed it put them in danger
500
Why did all but 1,050 Cuban Mariel immigrants get paroled and released in 1980?
What is those who committed serious crimes in Cuba became indefinite prisoners because Cuba wouldn't take them back and we couldn't release them
500
In May 1981, the INS adopted a formal policy of categorically eating undocumented Haitian immigrants on _____ _____, in _____ _______, and in secure INS detention facilities run like prisons