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Rümeysa Öztürk is a Turkish national, child development scholar, and former graduate student at Tufts University whose detention by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) drew international attention and raised serious concerns about academic freedom, due process, and the treatment of immigrants in detention. Öztürk came to the United States in 2018 on a valid […]
Officials in Adelanto, home to California’s largest immigrant detention center, have decided to end the city’s contract with the facility, making it the second Southern California community this week to pull out of the immigrant detention business. Adelanto plans to terminate its agreement with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) and The GEO […]
José Luis Ibarra Bucio was a Mexican national and longtime resident of the United States who died in 2019 following a series of medical emergencies that occurred after he was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). According to reporting, Ibarra Bucio was living in Southern California, where he had family ties and worked […]