Since the late 1990s organisations working in the field of immigration detention have discussed the need for better regional and international networking.

Campaigning successfully against the immigration detention of African and other children.

As a result of the decision, Al-Kateb had to return to immigration detention.

Mental health professionals had repeatedly recommended that children and their parents be removed from immigration detention.

The US spends $1.8bn a year in immigration detention.

For many cities and counties across the country, immigration detention has been a lucrative business that provides much needed revenue.

Several reports have been made citing instances of basic human rights standards being violated in immigration detention centers across the country.

One in five people being held in immigration detention is a child - almost 600 in total.

The report does not say whether the immigration detentions yielded any valuable information.

Later accompanied his lawyer to travel to immigration detention himself.