Human Rights Watch Again Blasts United States for Immigration Abuses The Huffington Post
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The failure of Congress and the White House to address the country’s immigration problems drew fire from a prominent human rights watchdog this week - again.

Human Rights Watch criticized the U.S. government in its “World Report 2014,” released last Tuesday, for what it called “abuses” related to the incarceration and deportation of undocumented immigrants. The organization echoed similar faults it found with U.S. immigration policy in world reports from past years.

The authors criticize the U.S. government’s human rights record, calling it “marred by abuses related to criminal justice immigration, national security and drug policy.” The report names immigrants and ethnic minorities as among the “most vulnerable members” of U.S. society.

The report also notes that U.S. detention centers now hold approximately 400,000 undocumented immigrants each year, with hundreds in solitary confinement.

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