Alejandro Mayorkas sat before lawmakers Tuesday as they evaluated him to lead the Department of Homeland Security and grilled the hopeful future secretary.
By QUINN OWEN, ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Lawmakers evaluated Alejandro Mayorkas to lead the Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday and grilled the hopeful future secretary on a range of issues focused on immigration enforcement and his time at the highest ranks of the department in 2015. Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, asked about the caravan [.]
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According to a complaint filed in August with the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General by a Texas-based advocacy group, guards in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in El Paso, Tex., have been sexually assaulting detainees and intimidating them from coming forward. This is part of a larger pattern and practice of abuse in immigration detention centers throughout the state of Texas. Meanwhile, the federal government has done nothing to prevent the sexual assault of those detained and is not providing victims with the support services that are required by law.
Sexual assault and abuse common in Texas detention
Inspector General photos of showers, Feb., 2020
A Calexico detention center run for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement by a controversial Utah contractor has received a blistering review from the Department of Homeland Security s Office of Inspector General, which found that inmates were held in administrative segregation for prolonged periods of 22 to 23 hours a day, including two detainees who had been held in isolation for more than 300 days. We also determined that parts of the facility were in poor condition, medical checks were insufficient to ensure proper detainee care, medical grievances and responses were not properly documented, and ICE communication with detainees was limited.
Cameroonian immigrants in Adams County prison say they were tortured by ICE agents
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Smoke rises above the Adams County Correctional Center in Natchez, Miss., Sunday, May 20, 2012, during an inmate disturbance at the prison. A guard at the southwest Mississippi prison died Sunday and several other employees were injured during what the facility s private operator is calling an inmate disturbance that continued into the evening. (AP Photos/The Natchez Democrat, Lauren Wood)
Cameroonian immigrants in Adams County prison say they were tortured by ICE agents
Editor’s note: The Cameroonian immigrants quoted in this story are not named by Mississippi Today because they fear for their safety and retaliation from immigration officials. We carefully verified the identities of three men currently in ICE custody and agreed to identify them using their initials the same way they are identified in federal documents. A fourth man quoted in this story is out on bond and is not n