The Spanish Citizen Forgotten by All in a Center of the Ice: “I Am Literally Abandoned, Like I Don’t Exist”

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In the Kenton County detention center in the southern state of Kentucky, there is a migrant who passes like a ghost among the dozens of detainees, as if the world had forgotten about his presence. “I am literally abandoned, like I don’t exist,” he told EL PAÍS in a phone call this week. It is the Spanish citizen Miguel Barreno López, 39 years old, who has been in the hands of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) for six mon…