The American Immigration Lawyers Association said it had learned of the death of a child shortly after the child and parent left the ICE family detention center at Dilley, Texas. The legal group said it was made aware of ...
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Detainee Attempts Suicide After Trump Administration Jams Migrants Into Troubled Prison
A controversial federal prison complex in Victorville, California, that is currently housing roughly 800 immigration detainees despite infectious disease outbreaks and workers’ concerns about inadequate medical care, is ...
A bird trapped in ICE detention: What it’s like inside the largest immigrant prison in the US
Originally published by Salon I hate hospitals. I watched my grandma die in a hospital and saw cancer take my best friend's father from her in a hospital. Today, I am in a place like a hospital, but it is not at all com ...
Mexican Journalist Seeking Asylum Released From US Detention
Emilio Gutierrez Soto and his adult son, Oscar, said the two were released from the El Paso, Texas, facility without bond, said their attorney, Eduardo Beckett. ...
Migrants in U.S. Custody Describe Life in ‘Ice Boxes’ and ‘Dog Pounds’
“I can only hold one at a time to keep them warm. Whoever I am not holding is cold,” she said in one of more than 200 sworn statements filed this week in a long-running lawsuit challenging conditions for children in immi ...
Drinking Toilet Water, Widespread Abuse: Report Details ‘Torture’ For Child Detainees
Over the course of four days in June, Keylin says, U.S. Border Patrol guards would kick her body to keep her awake throughout the night. ...
Sexual Assault Inside ICE Detention: 2 Survivors Tell Their Stories
After gathering her belongings, she was escorted to a loading area fenced with razor wire and placed into a cage inside a van. The driver was a male guard named Donald Dunn. Shortly after leaving Hutto, Dunn pulled off t ...
ICE detainee facing deportation apparently kills himself
Efrain De La Rosa, 40, was found unresponsive in a cell at the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, on Tuesday night and was later pronounced dead at a hospital, Immigration and Customs Enforcement said. ...
Lawyers Will Interview 200 Separated Migrant Children About Detention Conditions
On Thursday and Friday, 26 immigration lawyers and five medical experts will visit Casa Padre, America’s largest migrant children’s shelter. These two days mark the first time that a large group of lawyers and child expe ...
Here’s what it’s like to work at a shelter for immigrant kids
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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