Refugees detained in President Trump’s sweeping Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in Minneapolis are being despatched to detention facilities in Texas, together with one simply south of San Antonio, in keeping with a report by the Dallas Observer.
Officers at Minneapolis authorized group Advocates for Human Rights instructed the Observer that at the least 100 have been detained by ICE because the begin of Operation PARRIS final week. The sweep seems to be concentrating on Somali refugees.
The authorized group instructed the Observer that its purchasers detained through the operation, have been transported to the Dilley Immigration Processing Middle, about 60 miles southwest of San Antonio, together with a facility in El Paso.
Courtroom testimony filed by immigrant advocacy group RAICES in July reported that detainees on the Dilley lockup expressed issues about lack of medical care, clear ingesting water and the absence of sufficient meals, as reported by the Present.
One detainee quoted within the authorized filings mentioned her 9-month-old son misplaced greater than 9 kilos through the first month the household was held on the detention heart.
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