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ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders: AP News
The change affects thousands of people and could make last-minute legal challenges harder to file, immigration lawyers said.
- On Sept. 15, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement removed detainees with final removal orders from its online locator system, preventing lawyers and families from tracking people in custody.
- The move reflects President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, increasing pressure on detainees to waive appeals and agree to deportation.
- Nearly 16,000 people booked into ICE detention in July held final removal orders out of more than 65,000 total detainees; Atenas Burrola Estrada, deputy program director at the Amica Center for Immigrant Rights, reported that 17 of her clients vanished from the system.
- Among those missing are eight Somali men held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; My Khanh Ngo of the American Civil Liberties Union said the change makes it "nearly impossible" for attorneys to help clients challenge their removals.
- The Department of Homeland Security argues detainees receive due process through immigration courts; however, advocates warn the practice mimics "disappearing people" in other countries, threatening individual rights.
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ICE Is 'Disappearing' Thousands of Detainees: Sources
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding thousands oftainees who are subject to final deportation orders, an unannounced move that has made it far more difficult for lawyers and relative to find them, granting to current and training officials family with the practice...
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