US (Washington Insider Magazine) – The Immigration and Customs Enforcement office faces a new lawsuit by immigrants, who accuse retaliation after denouncing abuse and inhumane treatment in a prison in New York.
Group of Six Hispanic Immigrants
A group of six Hispanic immigrants sued the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office in the Southern District Court in New York, due to damages for their right to adhere to the First Amendment.
The immigrants say they were retaliated against after denouncing brutality, racism and medical neglect at an ICE detention center in upstate Orange County.
In their lawsuit, the plaintiffs claim that federal and local officials – who were also sued – sought in various ways to “silence” the movement to denounce prison abuses.
The Orange jail is the second largest immigration detention center in the state and has maintained a contract with ICE for ten years.
It is also denounced that in this center, where immigrants wait for months and sometimes years for the resolution of their cases, “deprivation and suffering, aggression and racist verbal abuse” by its employees have been rampant, and that basic medical services and mental are “frequently delayed or denied”.
The lawsuit was filed Tuesday by Los Defensores de El Bronx, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on behalf of Nahum Ortiz, and Luis González Carvajal, who are no longer detained, as well as Denny Molina Cantor. , Lucas Palacios Alvarado, Jeremias Lopez and Elmer Moscoso.
As part of the claims, López and Moscoso seek to be released from the punitive segregation that they allege was imposed on them due to the complaints, while Molina and Palacios ask that they be returned to New York since they were transferred to a detention center in Mississippi, points out the statement where they report the lawsuit filed in the federal Court for the Southern District of New York, in Manhattan.
The six plaintiffs are part of a group of dozens of immigrants who began denouncing their mistreatment in 2021 and finally went on hunger strike in February 2022, the lawyers’ statement explains.
This article is authored by EI Diario.
