The administration of President Joe Biden has expressed intent to reopen a Texas detention center to accommodate an increase in unoccupied foreign children at the southern U.S. border.
A Mexican woman previously sued the administrators of Houston Immigration Detention Center on grounds of rape claims on the premises in 2018. The case was later on dismissed after confessing that she lied with aim of acquiring a visa.
ICE detainees in Los Angeles will have to remain under custody after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit overruled a judge's decision to require their release.
The American Immigration Council obtained more than 800 complaints of physical, sexual, and verbal abuse lodged by detainees between January 2009 and January 2012 and found that 97 percent of complaints resulted in no punishment. More than 80 percent of child detainees claimed receiving inadequate food and water and half reported verbal abuse, while one-in-four reported physical abuse.
During the last several months, numerous civil rights and immigration reform advocates have protested at detention centers around the nation calling for President Barack Obama to end deportations and the inhumane treatment of detainees.
