{"id":552615,"date":"2023-02-16T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/ice-unable-to-stamp-out-abuse-allegations-at-detention-centers\/"},"modified":"2023-02-16T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T11:00:00","slug":"ice-unable-to-stamp-out-abuse-allegations-at-detention-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ice-unable-to-stamp-out-abuse-allegations-at-detention-centers\/","title":{"rendered":"#ICE unable to stamp out abuse allegations at detention centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3dfd5484c7d\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3dfd5484c7d\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ice-unable-to-stamp-out-abuse-allegations-at-detention-centers\/#ICE_unable_to_stamp_out_abuse_allegations_at_detention_centers\" >ICE unable to stamp out abuse allegations at detention centers<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"ICE_unable_to_stamp_out_abuse_allegations_at_detention_centers\"><\/span>ICE unable to stamp out abuse allegations at detention centers<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/detentioncenter_092922_ap-andres-leighton_ICE.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Advocates say conditions at U.S. immigration detention centers are getting worse, even after years of investigations, calls to action and pledges to improve the civilian incarceration system.<\/p>\n<p>Early in his tenure, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas ordered two detention centers shuttered, and he has since closed a handful more.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cAllow me to state one foundational principle: we will not tolerate the mistreatment of individuals in civil immigration detention or substandard conditions of detention,\u201d Mayorkas <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/news\/2021\/05\/20\/ice-close-two-detention-centers\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/news\/2021\/05\/20\/ice-close-two-detention-centers\">said in a memo<\/a> to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) acting Director Tae Johnson in March of 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Even as Biden administration officials have vowed to reduce immigration detention, multiple organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the American Immigration Lawyers Association, have consistently highlighted the flaws in the system.<\/p>\n<p>Still, ICE and private detention center operators such as CoreCivic and the GEO Group have been dogged by consistent reports of abuse, neglect and mismanagement.<\/p>\n<p>One location, the Torrance County Detention Facility in Estancia, N.M., received such poor marks in a September inspection that the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s Office of the Inspector <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">General<\/a> \u201crecommended, and continue[s] to recommend, the im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>te relocation of all Torrance detainees unless and until the facility ensures adequate staffing and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ropriate living conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That report followed a March \u201cmanagement alert\u201d by DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari, who recommended \u201cthat detainees should be immediately removed from this facility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That recommendation was not followed.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>ICE continued to populate the facility, bringing in upwards of 200 new detainees starting on Christmas Eve, according to Ana Ortiz Varela, a program manager at Innovation Law Lab, a nonprofit that combines legal, political and technological tools to fight against mistreatment and deportations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt actually started on Christmas Eve,\u201d said Ortiz Varela. \u201cAnd it was Christmas for them, because they\u2019re Latino. Like for them, that\u2019s Christmas Day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An investigation conducted by the Innovation Law Lab at Torrance between January and February <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/innovationlawlab.org\/media\/2023.02.15-Torrance-Report.pdf\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/innovationlawlab.org\/media\/2023.02.15-Torrance-Report.pdf\">and released Wednesday<\/a> found \u201cthe men are subjected to conditions worse than those that formed the basis for the DHS Office of the Inspector General\u2019s recommendation to end operations at Torrance in March 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The report, based largely on first-hand accounts by detainees, found \u201ca disturbing picture of the conduct of US Government officials and CoreCivic employees who manage the facility day to day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CoreCivic is a private company that operates dozens of detention and correctional facilities throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMuch of the recent reporting about [Torrance] has been inaccurate and misleading. The reality is that we provide a safe, humane and appropriate environment for those entrusted to us at [Torrance] and are constantly striving to deliver an even better standard of care,\u201d said Ryan Gustin, a spokesman for CoreCivic.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Reports of abuse and subpar conditions in immigration detention centers are far from exclusive to Torrance.<\/p>\n<p>Advocates say conditions at the Northwest ICE Processing Center (NWIPC) near Seattle reached a breaking point early this month, when a group of 85 detainees in one unit began a hunger strike.<\/p>\n<p>Allegations regarding that facility\u2019s installations, inmate services and incidences of detainee abuse are so notorious that the University of Washington\u2019s Center for Human Rights has been investigating conditions at NWIPC since 2017.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The hunger strike, which has since ended, led to some concessions for the striking unit \u2014 advocates report detainees receive chicken rather than soy-based meals \u2014 but only after significant uproar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have never seen a demonstration being put out by gas canisters thrown to them. That was new to us. Not saying that they haven\u2019t done it, maybe they\u2019ve done it before, but not to hunger strikers that we\u2019ve worked with,\u201d said Maru Mora-Villalpando, a community organizer with La Resistencia, a group that\u2019s focused on abuses at NWIPC.<\/p>\n<p>NWIPC is run by the GEO Group, which operates 51 secure facilities for federal, state and local governments throughout the United States.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>A spokesperson for GEO characterized the early February disruption at the facility thusly: \u201cAn incident occurred at the Northwest ICE Processing Center involving a small group of high-security detainees that were behaving in a disruptive manner, barricading themselves inside of their housing unit, and blocking security cameras, which provide additional safety for other detainees and staff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson added that \u201cchemical agents\u201d were used but no detainees were injured, while rejecting the allegations of poor conditions and abuse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe strongly reject these allegations, which are clearly part of a politically motivated and choreographed effort to abolish ICE. There is currently no hunger strike at the Northwest ICE Processing Center, and residents are provided three meals daily based on nutritional menus approved by a registered dietician free of charge, in accordance with the federal government\u2019s Performance-Based National Detention Standards.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Representatives for both CoreCivic and GEO pointed to ICE as the ultimate arbiters and enforcers of immigration detention standards.<\/p>\n<p>ICE did not respond to multiple requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Reports of detainee mistreatment in immigration detention are so widespread and commonplace that advocates say non-criminal immigration detention itself is the problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs long as the U.S. government has been jailing people as part of the immigration process, it\u2019s been a concern,\u201d said Heidi Altman, director of policy at the National Immigrant Justice Center at the Friends Committee on National Legislation.<\/p>\n<p>And ICE detention costs taxpayers $2.9 billion a year for a detainee population that\u2019s averaged 25,978 people per month since June of 2019, according to numbers from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a data monitoring project at Syracuse University.<\/p>\n<p>Even discounting the alleged patterns of abuse, the practice of keeping non-criminal immigrants in detention <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/press-releases\/2021\/12\/un-human-rights-experts-urge-states-adopt-alternative-measures-and-put-end-0\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/press-releases\/2021\/12\/un-human-rights-experts-urge-states-adopt-alternative-measures-and-put-end-0\">has been broadly denounced<\/a> both domestically and internationally, as it subjects people without criminal charges to prison-like conditions for indeterminate amounts of time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat the detention doesn\u2019t have an end date is important in terms of the impact on people who are detained. So think in terms of the psychological damage that immigration detention does \u2014 the indefinite nature of it, which is different from the criminal legal system, is just really, really insidious,\u201d Altman said.<\/p>\n<p>Immigration detention has often been portrayed as a necessity to keep deportable immigrants from evading authorities in hopes of staying in the country.<\/p>\n<p>While incarceration does keep deportable foreign nationals within reach of ICE, advocates say nearly 100 percent of immigrants with legal representation show up for hearings and meetings with ICE agents.<\/p>\n<p>And ICE has alternatives to the detention program, which include electronic surveillance methods such as ankle bracelets and phone-like tablets given to migrants so they can be tracked.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, 36 House Democrats led by Reps. Pramila Jayapal (Wash.), Jerry Nadler (N.Y.) and Nanette Diaz Barrag\u00e1n (Calif.) called on the Biden administration to give additional funding to the Case Management Pilot Program (CMPP), which provides legal assistance to immigrants in deportation proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrevious case management programs were highly effective in producing compliance with immigration proceedings. For instance, the Family Case Management Program (FCMP) enjoyed a strong record of success, producing compliance rates of 99 percent for compliance with court hearings and immigration appointments, at a cost of only $36 per day per family compared to adult detention, which costs up to $232 per person per day,\u201d wrote the lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the alternative programs, the number of ICE detainees has remained steady during the Biden administration, and a majority of detainees neither face criminal charges nor have a criminal record.<\/p>\n<p>According to TRAC, ICE had 24,170 detainees at the end of January, 14,732 of whom had no criminal charges or records.<\/p>\n<p>Many of those detainees complain about living conditions, cruel treatment, food, and alleged overuse of solitary confinement and diminished or lack of access to the asylum process.<\/p>\n<p>For one detained migrant who spoke to The Hill from Torrance, the experience has been worse than threats from criminal gangs that made him flee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would have preferred to stay in my country, for them to take my life there rather than being a prisoner here, because I had never in my life been in jail,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would already be out of this because in death one is better off, one doesn\u2019t suffer, doesn\u2019t agonize, doesn\u2019t feel anything, doesn\u2019t go through toil, or the fight that one is going through here, and living here.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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