Advocates Say Kansas ICE Detainees Face Dire Conditions
- Dozens of immigrants detained by ICE at the Burlington Field Office in Massachusetts face inhumane conditions in early June 2025.
- These harsh conditions stem from the facility being an ICE field office not designed for detention and overcrowding amid increased arrests.
- Lawyers report detainees lack beds and privacy, sleep on concrete floors with only mylar blankets, receive limited food likened to dog food, and have no medical care.
- Marcelo Gomes Da Silva, an 18-year-old student from Milford originally from Brazil, was taken into custody while heading to volleyball practice last week and was later released on a $2,000 bond following a remote hearing held at Plymouth County Jail.
- These revelations highlight systemic overcrowding and may prompt increased legal challenges and advocacy for improved detention conditions in Massachusetts.
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Advocacy groups sound alarm on conditions in federal prison
Immigrants detained in Leavenworth federal prison live in squalor without sunlight, letters claim
TOPEKA — Immigrants being held inside a federal prison in northeast Kansas and their attorneys reported an unsanitary, inequitable and unhealthy environment that has left people, even those who have won their immigration cases, deprived of basic needs. Based on…
Over the past four years, the country experienced a record increase in the number of unaccompanied foreign minors crossing the Southern Border. A report, promoted by the Department of Homeland Security, showed that some of the sponsors had paid smugglers to bring them to the country or had declared fraudulent family relations.
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