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Moshannon Valley Processing Center, a large ICE detention facility in west-central Pennsylvania, has drawn many civil rights complaints.
ICE detentions have surged, but deportations have not. In the past month, NPR spoke to dozens of detainees, families and lawyers who spoke of overcrowded centers in Florida lacking food and medicine.
ICE is detaining immigrants in a Burlington office park building that wasn't designed as a holding facility. Lawyers say conditions there are "abysmal" and "unsanitary."
Demissie filed a motion to get Martinez released on the grounds that the conditions in Burlington were inhumane. ICE then found room for her in a Chittenden, Vermont detention facility.
Marcelo Gomes da Silva, the Milford teen detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents while on his way to volleyball practice in May, is responding after the agency says he is lying about his treatment while in detention.
For some women, the conditions have been particularly grim. In one case, a woman who had her period was denied access to menstrual products. When she needed to clean up, a guard allegedly gave her an extra bottle of water.
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ICE is responding following the release of a Milford teen from a detention center in Burlington, saying he ‘peddled blatant lies’.
Much is still unclear about what unfolded at the Delaney Hall facility in Newark, where Immigration and Customs Enforcement opened a 1,000-bed facility this year.