The United States has failed to uphold its international obligations to protect the human rights of migrants, subjecting too many to prolonged detention in substandard facilities while depriving them of an adequate appeals process and labor protections. In the intl body's first scrutiny of US treatment of its 37.5 million noncitizen migrants, it took particular aim at what he criticized as the "overuse" of detention... |
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