Inside America’s Broken Asylum System

Louisiana detains more asylum seekers and migrants than almost any other state, part of a widely criticized US system advocates say treats innocent people like convicted criminals. In Louisiana, asylum seekers are often held in former prisons and subjected to conditions advocates call arbitrary and cruel.

Read more of Courting Injustice, Bloomberg’s investigation into the asylum detention process, here:

👉Justice Is Beside the Point in America’s Immigration Courts https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-09-03/us-immigration-court-system-falls-to-politics-failing-asylum-seekers?utm_medium=social&utm_source=youtube&utm_campaign=originals&utm_content=article

👉America Is Filling Notorious Former Jails With Asylum-Seekers
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2024-asylum-seekers-detention-centers/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=youtube&utm_campaign=originals&utm_content=article

0:00 – Intro
1:16 – Migrants released from detention
3:25 – Dysfunctional asylum system
4:50 – Expansion of immigrant detention
6:00 – Detention facility conditions
7:23 – Reports of abuse and neglect
9:20 – Rural immigration courts
10:57 – Louisiana Advocates for Immigrants in Detention
12:20 – Conclusion

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