High Schooler Detained by ICE Couldn’t Shower for a Week, Teacher Says

A Los Angeles teacher says she believes bounty hunters may have mistakenly seized one of her students before he ended up in federal custody.

Lizette Becerra, who teaches in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), visited 18-year-old Benjamin Marcelo Guerrero-Cruz at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center on Sunday.

“For about seven days, he couldn’t change. He was in pajama shorts and slippers. He couldn’t bathe or brush his teeth. He was sleeping next to a toilet where he had to wake up every time someone went so he wouldn’t get urinated on,” Becerra told Newsweek

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