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"As federal agents rushed to arrest immigrants across Los Angeles, they
confined detainees – including families with small children – in a stuffy
office basement for days without sufficient food and water, according to
immigration lawyers.
One family with three children were held inside a Los Angeles-area
administrative building for 48 hours after being arrested on Thursday
immediately after an immigration court hearing, according to lawyers from the
Immigrant Defenders Law Center (ImmDef), which is providing non-profit legal
services in the region.
The children, the youngest of whom is three years old, were provided a bag of
chips, a box of animal crackers and a mini carton of milk as their sole rations
for a day. Agents told the family they did not have any water to provide during
the family’s first day in detention; on the second day, all five were given a
single bottle to share. The one fan in the room was pointed directly towards a
guard, rather than towards the families in confinement, they told lawyers.
“Because it was primarily men held in these facilities, they didn’t have
separate quarters for families or for women,” said Yliana Johansen-Méndez,
chief program officer at ImmDef. Clients explained that “eventually they set up
a makeshift tent in an outside area to house the women and children. But
clearly, there were no beds, no showers.”
They have since been transferred to a “family detention” center in Dilley,
Texas, a large-scale holding facility retrofitted to hold children with their
parents that was reopened under the Trump administration. Lawyers, who had been
largely blocked from communicating with immigrants arrested amid the ramped-up
raids in LA, said family members were able to recount the ordeal only after
they were moved out of state.
The harrowing details are the first to emerge about the conditions that people
are being held in following the immigration raids targeting LA-area businesses
and neighborhoods."
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
