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Sunday, 27 March 2022

ICE Continues to Abuse and Traumatize Under Biden. Immigrants Are Fighting Back.

Immigrant advocates place “Shut Down Glades” hearts at Glades County Detention Center on Valentine’s Day 2022.

Immigrant advocates place “Shut Down Glades” hearts at Glades County Detention Center on Valentine’s Day 2022.

Just after dawn on September 16, 2021, E.E. and six other African immigrant men were resting in their bunks at the Glades County Detention Center in Moore Haven, Florida, when Captain John Gadson and a group of at least 15 sheriff’s deputies stormed in, as Truthout reported, pepper spraying them in the eyes before dragging them to solitary confinement cells.

E.E. and the others sat in solitary with pepper spray burning their skin, prohibited from showering until the next day. On September 17, E.E. received paperwork with charges — but someone else’s name was on it. Nine days later, he and the others finally had a hearing. They learned Glades would keep them in solitary for 30 days, the maximum time allowed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) policy, under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).


ICE Continues to Abuse and ... by Thavam Ratna

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