One man allegedly had his finger broken to coerce him into signing a deportation document.
The organizations write that"while reports of human rights abuses and violations are common in ICE detention, the culture of abuse and rampant legal impunity at the NOLA ICE Field Office has set it apart." Of the 39 faculties that the ACLU has asked the administration to shut down over human rights violations, 11 are within the NOLA office's area of responsibility that extends to Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee.
"The NOLA ICE Field Office enables an unchecked culture of abuse within its network of immigration detention facilities," the letter says."We call on DHS to permanently close these facilities, end all related contracts, and release those inside to their loved ones and communities." Some detainees at facilities under the NOLA ICE field office were allegedly coerced into signing deportation forms. Here, an immigrant detainee looks from his 'segregation cell' at the Adelanto ICE Detention Facility on November 15, 2013, in Adelanto, California.
The letter stated that ICE violated its 2011 Performance Based National Detention Standards by denying access to safe drinking water and nutritious food. One detained asylum seeker said the water they had access to was"visibly yellow" and that he found a live cockroach in his food. Others claimed that the food portions were so small at their facility that they spent as much as $20 to $40 a week on food from the commissary to stave off hunger in the evenings.
The organizations also alleged that detainees were deprived of medical necessities. A client of the Southern Poverty Law Center was allegedly deprived of"essential treatment for serious liver disease despite the urgent need for care identified by an outside physician and provided in writing to ICE." One individual with a history of hypertension died in the Allen Parish ICE facility in 2020 after allegedly being denied medical attention that he had requested because of chest pains.
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