U.S. Immigration Service cancels African deportations after torture reports
Final Call News Sign calls for release of Black immigrants allegedly tortured by US immigration agency Photo GIN (GIN)—A plane carrying Cameroonian, Angolan and Congolese asylum seekers due to take off from Alexandria, Louisiana, was canceled with minutes to spare after advocacy groups published affidavits by detainees of torture by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. The affidavits listed a host of violent tactics ICE officials had reportedly used to pressure the detainees to submit to their deportation. ICE agents were accused of choking, beating, and forcing the asylum seek...