The brother of a man who died while detained at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility near Philipsburg sued the federal government Wednesday, claiming its agencies unlawfully ignored his request for records about the death.
Yanfeng Ge said in the lawsuit that ICE has offered no transparency into the August death of his brother at the Moshannon Valley Processing Center, the largest immigration detention center in the Northeast with a long history of abuse allegations.
“I am devasted (sic) by the loss of my brother and by the knowledge that he was suffering so greatly in that detention center. He did not deserve to be treated that way,” Ge said in a written statement…