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A price too high : US families torn apart by deportations for drug offenses / [written by Grace Meng].
Meng, Grace author.; Human Rights Watch (Organization), issuing body.
2015
HV5825 .M3755 2015 (Map It)
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Author
Meng, Grace author.
Title
A price too high : US families torn apart by deportations for drug offenses / [written by Grace Meng].
Published
[New York, N.Y.] : Human Rights Watch, [2015]
Copyright
©2015
Call Number
HV5825 .M3755 2015
ISBN
9781623132453
1623132452
Description
93 pages : color illustrations, charts ; 27 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)911292176
Summary
This 93-page report documents how the US regularly places legal residents and other immigrants with strong ties to US families into deportation proceedings for drug offenses. Often, those offenses are decades old or so minor they resulted in little or no prison time. Deportations after convictions for drug possession in particular have spiked, increasing 43 percent from 2007 to 2012, according to US government data obtained by Human Rights Watch through a Freedom of Information Act request"--Publisher's description.
Note
"June 2015"--Table of contents page.
"This report was researched and written by Grace Meng, US Program senior researcher"--Page 93.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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US families torn apart by deportations for drug offenses
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Human Rights Watch (Organization), issuing body.
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I. Background
II. Immigrants and the "War on Drugs"
III. Lawful Permanent Residents Deported for Drug Offenses
IV. Permanent Denial of Legal Resident Status
V. Drug Convictions as Bars to Asylum
VI. Mandatory Detention
VII. The Overly Broad Definition of "Conviction"
VII. The Role of Criminal Defense Attorneys and Prosecutors
VIII. Drug Control, Immigration Control, and Human Rights
Recommendations
Acknowledgments.

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