Letter to the editor: Keep Maine safe for all – oppose Scarborough ICE facility
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I am writing as a member of the southern Maine community who is deeply concerned and upset by the construction of the new Immigrations and Customs Enforcement facility at 40 Manson Libby Road in Scarborough.
In September, members of Congress released a report exposing both egregious conditions in ICE detention centers as well as the agency’s failure to identify and respond to abuses.
Following visits to eight ICE detention facilities and interviews with more than 400 people in ICE custody, members of the House Committee on Homeland Security reported poor physical and mental health care, failure to protect people in detention from COVID and constrained access to legal services and information.