Washington:
According to several reports, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have transported immigrant students and scholars arrested in connection with the Palstine Protests to close thousands of facilities at a distance of thousands of miles in the south.
Immigration officials detained Mahmud Khalil At his New York Niwas on 8 March. The next night, the graduate students of Columbia University slept in a remote facility in a remote area of ​​Louisiana, more than three hours from the nearest city.
Georgetown University Professor Badar Khan Suri Washington was initially taken into the facility of Louisiana and then a Texas jail after being detained close to DC.
Agents took Tufts Students Believe ojaturk Outside the Boston, the villagers checked him in a private jail in Southern Louisiana, away from the road and after less than a day.
These transfer authorities highlight the ice that it is on choosing to keep the detained migrants. Immigration lawyers argued that the Trump administration was misusing its authority by transferring individuals away from families and support networks.
At least 14 of the country’s 20 largest immigration preventive facilities are mainly located in Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi. In the past, both Democratic and Republican administration have used them as a center for the disorder of immigrants.
Civil rights groups have referred to these centers as “black holes”, where people are kept under frightening conditions, owner Informed
Ice, for its share, quoted logistics and practicality as the justification for its transfer decisions.
On its website, the agency states that it appoints limited detention resources to detain aliens to “immigration proceedings or removal from the United States” and this detention is “non-proclaimed”.
Government lawyers claimed in court documents that Ice took Khalil, Khan Suri, and Ojturk to Louisiana, as their arrest sites near the sites near the places due to lack of beds or “detained space”.
Most immigration prevention centers are located along the southern border of Mexico. After Texas, Louisiana currently has the second largest number of nationwide custody.
Senior Policy Advocate Adriel D. Orozco clarified that the transfer was always “within the immigration system”, but he did not see such a rigid transfer system, “in the sense of sending all the people of the Northeast to the south.”
This “appeared more about a change under Trump 2.0,” Orozco said CNN,