Under a Bush administration policy adopted in December, Haitians seeking asylum in the United States are held in indefinite detention during the processing of their immigration claims.
He added: "Investors in India are now put off from investing in the UK whilst the Home Office fail repeatedly to do anything about their failure at our borders to stop and return illegal immigrants, failure to tackle backlogs in processing delays or enforcement of immigration rules within the UK".
Under the House Republican proposal, Congress would reimburse states for deploying National Guard troops, as Republican Gov. Rick Perry of Texas has done, and speed up processing of the children's immigration claims.
Mr. Michel and his companies are accused of illegally processing 114 immigration applications, while Mr. Rincher and his companies are accused of illegally processing 22, a spokesman in the attorney general's office said.
In 1954, more than a million Mexicans were sent back to Mexico during "Operation Wetback" with hundreds of immigration officers rapidly processing the deportees in temporary detention camps before flying them out of the country.
After moving over to the Ministry of Immigration, Kenney overhauled the system and sped up processing times.
Under his leadership, Maryland is housing thousands of the children as they await processing by immigration authorities.
In the TV report a former G4S employee and senior manager at the regional processing facility claimed that some detainees had been raped and abused on Manus and that Department of Immigration staff failed to act to stop further violence.
At this month's Parliamentary Inquiry into the Use of Immigration Detention, MPs heard that countries like Sweden that have a system of processing immigrants in the community actually end up having more voluntary returns.
A damning UNHCR report on the state of immigration detention on Manus Island [pdf] has found that every asylum seeker housed in offshore processing facilities on Manus island is displaying "apparent signs of anxiety and depression", once again raising questions about the legality of the Australian government's policy of offshore processing.
