Warren Demands Answers From ICE About Its New Detention Centers in the South

After a report from Mother Jones, Warren wants ICE to explain why its using three new for-profit detention centers.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is demanding answers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement following a Mother Jones report that the agency has begun using three new for-profit detention centers in the Deep South.

ICE is sending asylum seekers to the facilities even though Congress just rejected another request from the agency for funds to allow it to detain more migrants. One of the new centers saw the death of three inmates following poor medical treatment and a riot in 2012 that left a guard dead.

In a letter sent to acting ICE director Mark Morgan on Thursday, Warren wrote that “it appears that ICE has decided to place immigrant detainees at these facilities without providing proper notice, despite the fact that they suffer from a myriad of health and safety problems.”

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/07/warren-demands-answers-from-ice-following-mother-jones-report-on-detention-centers/