New claims of migrant abuse as Ice defies Biden to continue deportations
Source: Guardian
Ice condemned as rogue agency after rights groups allege torture by agents and man deported to Haiti who had never been there
Julian Borger in Washington
Tue 2 Feb 2021 18.50 EST
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) has been denounced as a rogue agency after new allegations of assaults on asylum seekers emerged, and deportations of African and Caribbean migrants continued in defiance of the Biden administrations orders.
Joe Biden unveiled his immigration agenda on Tuesday, and his homeland security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was confirmed by the Senate, but the continued deportations suggested the Biden White House still does not have full control of Ice, which faces multiple allegations of human rights abuses and allegations that it has disproportionately targeted black migrants.
A coalition of immigrant rights groups published affidavits from Cameroonian asylum seekers who they said were tortured by being forced to approve their own deportations. The asylum seekers described being forced to the floor and having their fingers inked and pressed on to deportation documents they had refused to sign.
An Ice plane deporting Cameroonian, Angolan, Congolese and other African migrants is expected to leave Louisiana on Wednesday, despite an order from the incoming Biden administration for a 100-day suspension of deportation flights.
A Trump-appointed judge in Texas blocked the Biden moratorium last week, approving a challenge from the states attorney general, Ken Paxton, who played a leading role in the attempt to overturn the election result.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/02/ice-immigration-migrants-asylum-seekers-abuse-allegations
Lonestarblue
(9,880 posts)Any ICE agent who refuses to follow orders needs to be fired immediately. And maybe he can inform air traffic control that ICE planes have no authority to leave the US.
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Hassler
(3,321 posts)badboy67
(460 posts)ICE is a metastatic, malignancy degrading our national health.
EndlessWire
(6,373 posts)show them who's boss. He has to put the agency in its place. The only solution is to solidify the position and fire somebody for refusal to do their duty. Somebody has to go, for sure.
He shouldn't ask. He needs to order. This is unbelievable. Why does the management of ICE think that they can defy the POTUS??