The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and several other legal services organizations filed a lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at four detention facilities across the U.S., including one in Ferriday, LA.
Yoel Alonso Leal has spent over ten months being shuttled through a series of secretive ICE detention centers.
New Orleans is a welcoming city to immigrants, indicative of our values of inclusivity and respect, but it isn't enough to protect immigrants within the city limits.
On Wednesday, the first day of school in many parts of the United States, ICE conducted raids across 11 different Mississippi chicken food-processing plants.
During a hunger strike protest, immigrants at the facility were pepper-sprayed for non-violent behavior as a way of “de-escalating the situation” according to Lt. Bill Davis of the Bossier Parish Sheriff’s Office>
Officials have recently found multiple migrant “temporary holding facilities” in poor conditions including overcrowding, diseases, and sanitary issues.
ICE is set to conduct mass arrests and deportations of families in 10 cities beginning on Sunday. New Orleans is one of the cities on the list.
The expansion of immigrant detention to the WINN facility could allow ICE to hold more than 7,000 immigrants at a time in Louisiana - only Texas has more.
Since early March, there have been more than 236 cases of mumps in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers around the U.S.
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