Organizers working with the National Immigrant Youth Alliance (NIYA) have intentionally allowed for themselves to be detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, in order to gain access to the El Paso Processing Center. A NIYA organizer has been embedded within the El Paso center for nearly three weeks now; the organizer has helped uncover nearly 100 instances of ICE officials refusing to release parole eligible individuals.
The El Paso Detention Center houses nearly 800 immigrants, many of which are detained after surrendering themselves at the U.S. Port of Entry, seeking asylum. “The stories in here are crazy; there are some people in here who passed their [credible fear] interviews back in June or July, and they still haven’t been released.” An unidentified NIYA Organizer inside the El Paso Detention Center. “I’ve only been here for a couple of weeks; I think 2 out of the 3 people I talk to every day are in this category, they’ve passed credible fear but they aren’t being released.”
The rest of this report can be found at http://www.dreamactivist.org/niya-infiltrates-el-paso-immigration-detention-center-finds-hundreds-of-cases-of-wrongly-detained-immigrants/.
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