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Federal Immigrant Detention Center

Federal Immigrant Detention Center

Prisoners at Federal Immigrant Detention Center in South Texas Stage Hunger Strike Over Alleged Abuses, Denial of Due Process

As many as 100 people held at the Port Isabel Processing Center, an immigration prison near Brownsville, Texas, have been on a hunger strike since last week to draw attention to alleged abuses in the facility and their extended detention without due process. Inmates say their complaints to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, or ICE, about lack of medical attention, denial of food and other abuses have fallen on deaf ears. Ref. Source 6

Center Detention Immigrant Federal

Judge Rules that Immigrants in Long-term Lock-up Have Rights:

The decision in Reid v. Donelan adds to a growing consensus among the federal courts that long-term detention without a bond hearing is unlawful, building upon the ACLU's landmark victory in Rodriguez v. Robbins. Ref. Source 7

Federal Immigrant Detention Center History & Civil Business Politics

The stuff of nightmares: Inside the migrant detention center in Clint, Texas. The little-known Border Patrol facility in a West Texas farm town has suddenly become the public face of the chaos on America's southern border, after immigration lawyers began reporting on the children they saw and the filthy, overcrowded conditions in which they were being held. Outbreaks of scabies, shingles and chickenpox were spreading among the hundreds of children who were being held in cramped cells, Border Patrol agents said. The stench of the children's dirty clothing was so strong it spread to the agents' clothing. Source 4x.