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‘After about 5 minutes of struggle, they forced my index finger on the paper’: ICE Forcing More Asylum Seekers to Sign Deportation Paperwork at Jackson County Correctional Center, Louisiana

Freedom for Immigrants and other immigrants rights organizations filed a multi-individual Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL) complaint with the DHS Office of Civil Rights and Civil liberties (CRCL) and Office of the Inspector General (OIG), detailing ICE’s continued use of force and torture against Cameroonian asylum seekers to sign their own deportation paperwork. According to the complaint, ICE used coercive tactics against six Cameroonian asylum seekers detained at the privately-operated Jackson County Correctional Center in Jackson Parish, Louisiana. Tactics include threats of violence, physical abuse and forced taking of fingerprints in restraint to forcibly certify deportation and travel paperwork. Read the full complaint here.