Following the peaceful protest of Black asylum seekers held at the Pine Prairie ICE Processing Center in Pine Prairie, Louisiana, Freedom for Immigrants and its partners filed a civil rights complaint with the DHS Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL), calling on the agency to immediately halt and investigate the violent and discriminatory practices against Black asylum seekers and for their immediate release from solitary confinement. On August 10, 2020, Cameroonian asylum seekers at Pine Prairie staged a hunger strike to protest their indefinite detention, racist treatment from prison staff, and inhumane conditions amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In response, prison officials used unnecessary lethal force to place them in choke holds, pointed a gun at them and told the men they were going to be placed in solitary confinement. Read the full complaint here.