A federal judge has once again reined in the Trump administration by ordering, for the second time, that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) allow members of Congress to conduct unannounced visits to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers. The decision, issued Monday by District Court Judge Jia M. Cobb, temporarily blocks the requirement to give seven days' notice to inspect these facilities and reinforces the legislature's right to oversee the conditions in which thousands of people are held in federal custody.
"When you walk inside these walls, you experience a different trauma," Schiff said during the visit. "You get to see what happens to folks who are apprehended by ICE."
Our clients are still waiting for answers as to how this was allowed to happen and accountability for the significant harm they suffered. We represent highly vulnerable individuals, including children, families and victims of trafficking and torture, who were deeply affected by their experiences at Manston. They are the victims of the inhuman and degrading treatment that occurred, and it is therefore the responsibility of the Home Office to ensure that this public inquiry is allowed to take place without any further delays.
Deaths occurring in the custody of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) have reached at least 16 since January amid increasing mass detention across the country and growing concerns over conditions. On Sunday, Ismael Ayala-Uribe, a 39-year-old Mexican national and former Dreamer those given protections after being brought to the US as undocumented children in the past died after being held at an Ice facility in Adelanto, California, according to a statement from the federal agency. Ayala-Uribe's death marked the 15th detention death officially reported by Ice, part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), since Donald Trump returned to the White House in January.
The circumstances of the raid were just absolutely abusive, not only in their scope and just the sheer size of it, but the way that the folks at the Hyundai plant were treated by law enforcement,
My father and others do not have beds and are forced to sleep on the floor. He once found six or seven bedbugs in his blanket when he woke up, said his daughter Mehraveh Khandan, who described horrific sanitary conditions in the prison.
