"They need to close the detention centre down," she said.
Undocumented youth, workers, mothers and allies started closing down detention centers, stopping deportation buses, going on hungers strikes inside and outside of detention centers, fasting at the White House, interrupting the president's speeches and stopping deportation cases one by one with campaigns like the one I did for my mom.
Later, he championed the expansion of a detention center, cracked down on street violence and easily won re-election.
On 17 March Mohammad Ali Baquiri will address the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, calling for Australia to close down detention centres.
One theory points to Mr Menem's decision this month to have a notorious former naval detention centre pulled down and replaced with a park and monument.
"The average daily population in secure detention should be down," said Mike Jacobson, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the probation commissioner under Mayor David N. Dinkins.
Murray Watt also attempted to change the platform to close down detention centres if the centres had failed to "deliver humane and safe conditions".
Along with the two other immigration detention decisions handed down on that day, the case prompted several political leaders, including the then Federal President of the Australian Labor Party Carmen Lawrence, and Australian Democrats leader Senator Andrew Bartlett, to call for an Australian bill of rights.
The inquiry also heard that HM Prisons Inspectorate found around a quarter of cases of prolonged immigration detention were down to nothing more than bureaucratic inefficiency.
She was informed in advance of the detention, as were Downing Street and the White House.
