EL PASO — Immigrants detained at Camp East Montana at Fort Bliss say they’ve been coerced by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to cross the border into the Mexican desert — even when they haven’t any connection to Mexico — or be despatched to jail in third nations, human rights teams allege in a letter to the federal border safety company.
The ability has grow to be a “human and civil rights disaster,” the American Civil Liberties Union and different organizations stated within the letter despatched Monday to ICE and Fort Bliss officers. The organizations are calling for the camp to be shut down, alleging detained immigrants are topic to beatings and sexual abuse by officers, in addition to medical neglect, starvation and inadequate meals, and denial of entry to attorneys.
Plenty of detainees suffered severe accidents attributable to these bodily abuses, the report alleges, and in a single reported case a detained teenager stated he misplaced consciousness and required hospitalization after being slammed to the bottom…