In 3 Months, 3 Immigrants Have Died at a Private Detention
Center in California
Members of Congress have cited the Adelanto Detention
Facility for "egregious" medical errors.
By Madison Pauly, Mother Jones
June 2, 2017
A Honduran immigrant held at a troubled detention center in
California's high desert died Wednesday night while in the custody of
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Vincente Caceres-Maradiaga, 46, was
receiving treatment for multiple medical conditions while waiting for an
immigration court to decide whether to deport him, according an ICE statement.
He collapsed as he was playing soccer at the detention facility and died while
en route to a local hospital.
Caceres-Maradiaga's death is the latest in a string of
fatalities among detainees held at the Adelanto Detention Facility, which is
operated by the GEO Group, the country's largest private prison company.[....]
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The cruel but usual conditions inside two Georgia
immigration detention centers
Also worrisome are recent reports about the
administration’s plan to erode the already deficient detention standards and
further expand the immigration detention industry.
By Azadeh Shahshahani and Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, The
Hill
May 18, 2017
Paul is a Nigerian asylum-seeker who was until recently
detained at the Irwin County Detention
Center in Georgia (“Paul” is a pseudonym
to protect his safety).
Paul is thirty-six-years-old and was healthy before being
taken into Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody. During the summer
of 2016, Paul had experienced tooth pain and ultimately was brought to the
dentist on August 10.[...]
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Immigration Detention: Worse Than Death?
“I would rather die than spend one more day in detention.”
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| Martin Méndez Pineda |
By B. Shaw Drake, Huffington Post
May 24, 2017
Martin Méndez Pineda was held in U.S. immigration detention
for over 100 days. As a journalist, Martin reported on federal police violence
in one of Mexico’s most violent states. He received multiple death threats and
was beaten by police, eventually forcing him to flee to the United States to
seek asylum.
Asylum seekers have a right to seek protection at the border,
but some U.S. border agents are blatantly disregarding the law. Some Customs
and Border Protection officials have systematically turned away asylum seekers
from U.S. ports of entry. Those who are processed for protection consideration
are sent to immigration detention facilities, where some officers are
intentionally exacerbating punitive detention conditions in order to pressure
asylum seekers to drop their cases, and limiting due process protections.
I first learned of Martin’s case while documenting instances
of U.S. border agents illegally turning away asylum seekers for Human Rights
First’s report, “Crossing the Line.”[...]
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