Immigrant Detention: Can ICE Meet Its Legal Imperatives and Case Management Responsibilities?
Report release with Donald Kerwin, MPI Vice President for Programs; Serena Lin, MPI Data/Statistical Analyst; Dora Schriro, Director, ICE Office of Detention Policy and Planning; and Andrea Black, Detention Watch Network Coordinator.
On August 6, 2009, Homeland Security Assistant Secretary John Morton announced that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was conducting a major overhaul of the agency's immigration detention system. ICE’s subsequent disclosure that 10 more persons had died in its custody between 2004 and 2007 than had previously been reported underscored the need for detention reform and, in particular, for reform of ICE’s information systems.
MPI’s report, Immigrant Detention: Can ICE Meet Its Legal Imperatives and Case Management Responsibilities?, provided a roadmap for meeting the data needs that are essential for the overhaul to succeed. The report’s co-authors, MPI Vice President for Programs Donald Kerwin and MPI Data/Statistical Analyst Serena Lin, presented the paper, which analyzed select data of persons in ICE custody and examined the sufficiency of ICE’s information systems in light of the agency’s legal mandates and management imperatives.
Dora Schriro, head of ICE’s newly created Office of Detention Policy and Planning, and Andrea Black, Network Coordinator for the Detention Watch Network, provided comments in response to the report and on ICE’s new initiatives.
Speakers:
Donald Kerwin, MPI Vice President for Programs
Serena Lin, MPI Data/Statistical Analyst
Dora Schriro, Director, ICE Office of Detention Policy and Planning
Andrea Black, Detention Watch Network Coordinator
About the U.S. Immigration Policy Program
The U.S. Immigration Policy Program provides analysis of U.S. immigration pathways, the impacts of enforcement and other policies, and the characteristics of immigrant populations.
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