August 30, 2021 Hon. Joseph R. Biden, Jr. President of the United States Hon. Merrick B. Garland Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice Hon. Antony Blinken Secretary, U.S. Department of State Hon. Alejandro N. Mayorkas Secretary, Department of Homeland Security CC: Amb. Susan Rice Domestic Policy Council Advisor Jake Sullivan National Security Council Harold H. [...]
Biden Under Pressure Over 'Public Health' Border Expulsions This article features our clients Drs. Scott Allen and Pamela McPherson and originally appeared here. WASHINGTON — President Biden is coming under increasing pressure to abandon a Trump-era immigration rule that has sealed off the United States to most migrants during the pandemic, with human rights officials [...]
Merkley, Jayapal, Booker, Markey, Wyden Introduce Legislation to Protect Families’ Freedom, Human Right to Not Be Traumatized This article features our clients Drs. Scott Allen and Pamela McPherson and Senior Counsel Dana Gold and was originally published here. WASHINGTON, D.C. April 29, 2021– Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley today teamed up with U.S. Representative Pramila [...]
Women in ICE Detention Centers Were Reportedly Given Hysterectomies Without Informed Consent This article features Government Accountability Project and our client Dawn Wooten and was originally published here. Following some devastating revelations from a nurse-turned-whistleblower at a Georgia immigrant detention center (as shared with the Intercept earlier this week) about concerns over medical practices at the center [...]
“A SILENT PANDEMIC”: NURSE AT ICE FACILITY BLOWS THE WHISTLE ON CORONAVIRUS DANGER This article features Government Accountability Project and our client Dawn Wooten and was originally published here. A NURSE AT the Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia is speaking out about a host of dangerous medical practices at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility [...]
Kids remain in ICE custody as federal judge’s deadline for release comes and goes Note: this article mentions Government Accountability Project and our Senior Counsel Dana Gold, and was originally published here. A federal judge’s deadline for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to release children detained with their parents at migrant family jails came and went on Monday. [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 20, 2020 DHS Experts Issue Warning as ICE Attempts to Reinstitute Family Separation Government Accountability Project Clients Urge Congress to Prevent Imminent Harm WASHINGTON – Government Accountability Project clients Drs. Scott Allen, Pamela McPherson, and Josiah ‘Jody’ Rich, medical and mental health experts for the Department of Homeland Security’s Office [...]
Note: this op ed, written by our clients Drs. Scott Allen, Pamela McPherson, and Josiah Rich, was originally published here. We Were Whistleblowers for Family Separation Back in 2018. It's Happening Again. Two years ago, we watched in horror as our employer separated children from their parents as part of the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” [...]
Note: this article, featuring our Deputy Director of the International Program Samantha Feinstein and our clients, was originally published here. Whistleblowers Allege Unsafe Conditions at Richwood Correctional Center, Watchdog Group Reports MONROE, La. (KNOE) - The Government Accountability Project watchdog group is reporting unsafe conditions at the Richwood Correctional Center based on information that it [...]
Note: this article, featuring Government Accountability Project and our clients, was originally published here. The COVID-19 Crisis Is Exploding Inside ICE Detention Centers Thousands of guards and detainees are testing positive in facilities where safety and social distancing are impossible. Cases of COVID-19 are erupting inside dozens of Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers, where [...]