In the Span of Just 6 Weeks, 6 People Died While in ICE Custody in Texas

The 911 call reported an apparent suicide. A 55-year-old Cuban “tried to hang himself,” a federal contractor alerted emergency responders last month from a sprawling El Paso immigrant detention center. By the next day, records show that Geraldo Lunas Campos had died at the facility, marking the second fatality in weeks at the hastily constructed Fort Bliss Army tent structure known as…
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Jail Support for Immigrants Held in Missouri Offers Resistance in a Red State

For more than 200 days, Fernando Herrera-Cruz has been sitting in a county jail in central Missouri on immigration charges. The conditions in the jail are “very bad,” Herrera-Cruz told Truthout, with the help of a translator. “There are some guards who are very racist towards immigrants.” Herrera-Cruz, who is 25 years old, left Mexico to come to the United States to work with his brother for…
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