Boston Globe

Marchers urge end to immigrants’ jailing

More than 300 demonstrators, waving signs and wearing green-foam Statue of Liberty crowns, converged [last week] near the John F. Kennedy federal building to protest a surge in the number of [illegal aliens] who are jailed pending deportation…

[See Tantrum Watch]

Amnesty International USA, which organized the rally along with the MIRA Coalition, the ACLU, and others, said it is launching a nationwide campaign to push officials and judges to stop holding immigrants except in extraordinary cases, citing concerns about detainees’ access to healthcare and legal services. At least 74 immigrants have died in detention in the past five years, organizers said HERE