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ICE Sued Over Lack of Medical Treatment for Detained 5-Year-Old With Head Injury

HOUSTON — The mother of a 5-year-old Guatemalan boy sued U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement over the medical care he has received in detention for a head injury suffered before the family was arrested.

The lawsuit filed late Friday in California asks a judge to order the child to be taken to a pediatric neurologist or pediatric neurosurgeon. It also seeks to prevent ICE from trying to immediately deport the family.

The boy fell out of a shopping cart in December, fractured his skull and suffered bleeding around his brain. About a month later, he and his family were detained by ICE during what they thought was a routine check-in. The boy, his 1-year-old brother and their mother were taken to ICE’s family detention center at Dilley, Texas, while their father was taken to a detention center in California. Continue reading.

ICE Officials Sent ‘Happy Hunting’ Emails To Agents Preparing Migrant Raids

ICE officials preparing to carry out Trump’s mass-arrest raids expressed glee at the prospect of “hunting” thousands of people, newly released emails revealed.

In September 2017, the Trump administration was planning a series of raids, dubbed “Operation MEGA,” that were designed to round up at least 8,400 undocumented immigrants across the country and take them from their homes, families, and communities. It would have been the largest ICE operation of its kind, but was called off at the last minute.

A trove of documents, resulting from a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the Detention Watch Network and Mijente, were provided to the Daily Beastand published Wednesday. The documents detail internal communications from the government agency on the eve of the planned event.

View the complete July 5 article by Oliver Willis on the National Memo website here.

How ICE Is Using Solitary Confinement to Punish Asylum Seekers, Including LGBT & Disabled Immigrants

Since 2012, ICE has used solitary confinement as a routine punishment for thousands of immigrants and asylum seekers locked up in immigration jails across the country. We look at a new, damning investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists that has revealed this widespread abusive use of solitary confinement in immigration jails overseen by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The United Nations special rapporteur on torture says solitary confinement should only be used in exceptional circumstances, and defines extended use of solitary as “inhuman and degrading treatment.” Despite this, a review of more than 8,400 reports of solitary confinement in ICE detention found that immigration officers repeatedly used isolation cells to punish gay, transgender and disabled immigrants for their identities and to target other jailed immigrants for actions like kissing consensually or hunger striking. Almost a third of the people held in solitary confinement suffered from mental illness. In at least 373 cases, immigrants were put in isolation for being potentially suicidal. In nearly 200 instances, immigrants were held in solitary confinement for more than six months. The investigation is called “Solitary Voices.” We speak to one of its lead authors, Spencer Woodman.

View the complete May 22 post including video on the Democracy Now website.