CLINIC Project to Monitor Custody Reviews for Indefinitely Detained Immigrants

IMMIGRATION LAW & POLICY

Arrest and Detention

CLINIC PROJECT TO MONITOR CUSTODY REVIEWS FOR INDEFINITELY DETAINED IMMIGRANTS
Immigrants' Rights Update, Vol. 15, No. 1, Feb. 28, 2001

Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC) is beginning a project to monitor Immigration and Naturalization Service custody reviews of persons with final orders of removal. The purpose of the project is to monitor the INS's compliance with its newly published regulations regarding the detention of persons who have been ordered removed but who cannot be returned to their countries of origin (see "INS Publishes Rules for Detainees Who Have Been Ordered Removed but Cannot Be Repatriated"). The results of the monitoring will be used in advocacy efforts on behalf of indefinitely detained persons.

Contact Laurie Joyce at 415-394-0785 or CLINICLAJ@aol.com if you have any comments, complaints, suggestions, etc., regarding custody reviews. CLINIC is particularly interested in receiving copies of INS custody decisions (including decisions to release persons), and especially the following information about particular cases: (1) the date of the final order of removal; (2) any Notice of Custody Review; (3) the INS custody decision; and (4) subsequent decisions from INS headquarters.

Send written materials to: Laurie Joyce, CLINIC, 564 Market St., Suite 416, San Francisco, CA 94104.