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Kate MorrisseyTruthout |
The African country agreed to receive up to 160 people removed from the US in exchange for $5.1 million.
Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz’s family has concerns about the medical care he received while in an ICE jail.
Some said US agents had confiscated their phones and deported them without any way to communicate with loved ones.
“It’s one of the most humiliating things one can go through,” said one woman jailed at Otay Mesa Detention Center.
Some men said for days they weren’t allowed to make phone calls to inform their families and attorneys where they were.
At least six people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office. José is worried that he could be next.
Officers are arresting people after hearings and putting them into expedited proceedings that do not require a judge.
The findings could set a precedent for other cases before the commission involving US police-perpetrated killings.
Anastasio Hernández Rojas died in a hospital in 2010, days after border officials beat him and shocked him with a Taser.
“They treat us like dogs, and we’re human beings,” said one of the immigrants in the El Paso ICE jail.