In a statement, a representative for GEO Group, the company that contracts with ICE to run the facility, said: "We take our responsibility to ensure the health and safety of all those in our care and our employees with t ...
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Protesting U.S. Immigration Policies, Artists Aim for the Sky
This Independence Day, 70 artists are having messages of solidarity and defiance typed in the sky to highlight the plight of immigrants held in detention centers. ...
Isolated and Afraid, Detained Migrant Kids Worry About Virus
The child now has a toy car to play with and blank sheets of paper on which he draws animals, trees and small houses, she said. ICE called the allegation about toys “false information.” ...
US Expands Virus Testing of Detained Migrants Amid Criticism
The overall number of people held in immigration detention is about half what it was a year ago, due in large part to a Trump administration policy imposed in March of immediately turning away people apprehended at the n ...
ICE alleges coercion behind California hunger strike; detainee calls agency officials ‘liars’
“We decided to do this on our own because of the poor medical care we receive and the poor conditions in this facility that do not enable us to stay safe from the coronavirus pandemic,” Qazi said. ...
COVID-19 Cases at One Texas Immigration Detention Center Soared in a Matter of Days. Now, Town Leaders Want Answers.
Coronavirus infections continue to rise at migrant detention facilities in towns with limited resources. Some local governments want details on what’s being done to safeguard the public. ...
For Private Prisons, Detaining Immigrants Is Big Business
Thomas W. Beasley had something for sale, and figured he could market it the same as any other merchandise. “You just sell it like you were selling cars or real estate or hamburgers,” he told an interviewer. ...
Attorneys’ report slams conditions for migrant children at U.S. detention centers
Children and their parents interviewed by the attorneys described cramped cells where there wasn’t enough space or bedding to sleep, cold or frozen food and a lack of access to basic hygiene products like toothbrushes an ...
ICE Detainee Dies in For-Profit Georgia Immigrant Detention Center
Immigration detention isn’t just costly—it’s deadly. Efrain De La Rosa, a 40-year-old Mexican national, was found unresponsive in his cell at Georgia’s Stewart Detention Center on July 10 and was pronounced dead soon aft ...
Workers Running Shelters for Immigrant Kids Are Overworked, Undertrained, and Really Stressed Out
The employees were in the ninth hour of another 12-hour shift Saturday afternoon at a converted Walmart now housing immigrant boys when a teenage resident took off. ...
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