New quarterly report offers a window into the abusive, secretive immigration detention system

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: media@freedomforimmigrants.org

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Freedom for Immigrants (FFI) today launched its Detention Snapshot, a new report to be released quarterly, documenting human rights abuses committed in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention throughout the Spring of 2022. The report also includes examples of internal resistance and organizing by people in detention, in addition to examples of how immigration detention affects immigrant communities.

Offering a window view into the realities of immigration detention and ICE’s abusive practices across its sprawling detention system, the abuses documented in the report include incidents of sexual harassment and assault, anti-Black racism and physical violence.

Abuses described in the report were primarily reported to FFI’s free and unmonitored National Immigration Detention Hotline, which receives roughly 600 calls per week, and by community-based detention Visitation Groups within FFI’s National Visitation Network. Communicating with FFI and other groups to report abuse despite the risk of retaliation and further abuse by ICE, individuals in detention were pivotal to the creation of the report.

To read the report, click here.

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