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Ann Peterson, Gender / Refugee Research Center
While the Trump administration is in preparation for a significant increase in capacity by the US Immigration Customs Investigation Bureau (ICE), supporters will be increasingly exposed to immigrants and exile in a containment facility. Then it sounds a warning bell. Immigrant containment facilities are often operated by local counties based on private prison companies and contracts with the federal, but are rampant medical abandonment, unacceptable foods, the spread of pests, and clothing. It is notorious for refusal to receive basic essentials such as hygiene supplies. If ICE does not appropriately supervise these facilities, does not meet the minimum standards, and does not forced the compliance with record management, it will be more difficult to deal with these miserable, sometimes fatal situations. It will be.
President Trump’s indiscriminating abroad is also concerned that the ICE will secretly eliminate immigrants without proper procedures.
Through recent litigation asking that ICE did not respond to the request of the Information Public Law (FOIA), the Gender / Refugee Research Center (CGRS) and Casa Cornelia Law Center (Casa Cornelia) were in detention by ICE. I got information about abuse. And the authorities do not hold such an abuse record.
In the case of EGV
EGV was tortured in his home country due to religious beliefs, and then sought an exile in the United States, which is a legal basis for asylum. The immigration judge has found that she has truly proved that she has been tortured just for religious beliefs, but her native police, who are the requirements of asylum, cannot protect or protect her. She dismissed her claim, saying she did not prove what she didn’t care.
EGV appealed to the Immigration Appeal Committee for the decision and later appealed to the 9th round of the Appeal Court. During these appeals, she was detained for nearly 11 months in a poor environment. EGV spent five months at Joe Corie detention center in Conrovement, Texas, operated by a private prison company Geo Group.
Corie was the worst. EGV claims that he had not been able to receive proper medical care all the time. Only one tattered uniform was given to her. While the uniform was cleaned, she had to cover the naked body with a bed sheets. The socks and sandals given by Corie’s staff were holes and had holes, causing painful fungal infections. EGV was forced to sleep on a rusty mattress, and was refused treatment with both symptoms. Mr. EGV also noticed that Corie’s kitchen was filthy, pests were widespread, and rotten expired foods were piled up.
While in Colie, EGV suffered from hepatitis A, suffered from chronic digestive diseases that cause bloody stool and hematuria, caused high cholesterol and thyroid disease, and became anemic. She has endured a constant headache, eye pain, and numbness of her limbs for several months. At least twice, she had difficulty breathing and lost consciousness. Despite visiting the clinic many times, Colly’s medical staff could not diagnose EGV’s condition or provide treatment.
In July 2020, a fire broke out in Corie. EGV and the other 11 women were trapped in a solitary cell while smoke rushed. The women shouted for help, but Corie’s guards refused to help until the women began to fain. After the fire, EGV felt severe pain in his throat, nose, and eyes and lost his consciousness. Corie diagnosed EGV as tachycardia, but refused to treat him again and advised him to relax.
In addition to the miserable situation that EGV experienced in Corie, ICE had tried to expelled her unreasonably, despite the court order that banned her departure. Each time she was taken to the airfield and was put on an airplane with other detainors before the ICE staff noticed mistakes.
Lack of transparency
After ICE finally tried to eliminate her, CGRS and Casa Cornelia complained to refuse to apply for asylum on behalf of EGV. They also submitted the FOIA request to the ICE for all records on EGV’s detention and attempts of deposit. When ICE did not respond to these records of these records, EGV filed a lawsuit to force the creation.
Within a few days of submitting the complaint, ICE started creating documents immediately. Initially, the medical records during Colie’s stay in Colie were significantly short of shortage, and there was no record about the fire in July 2020. ICE did not provide a record of unreasonably expeling her.
However, the set settlement agreement requires that ICE ultimately document it in a declaration that has been proven to identify the required record. This declaration suggests that medical care by GEO GROUP and Corley staff, at least inadely, inadequate record management, and that ICE has not implemented an appropriate recording management policy. For example, the declaration states that ICE could not find a record of the fire in July 2020. However, local ICE and Colly staff acknowledged the fire at the time. As Ms. EGV said, during the fire, the reporters acknowledged that several female detainers were trapped in the cell, and the Corie staff had ignored medical concerns.
In addition, ICE acknowledges that unraveled immigrants are expelled on a daily basis and have not always recorded those cases, and states:
With the next administration’s increasingly aggressive ICE support, these confessions are particularly concerned with the preparations for enacting mass detention and forced repatriation. EGV’s lawsuit indicates why it is important to keep monitoring the handling of immigrants during detention, disagree, and ask the authorities for responsibility to comply with the necessary record management procedures.
Field: Immigration management and customs execution
