Apr 5
2022
Allegations of ICE mistreatment of detainees
A coalition of advocates for immigrants’ rights claims that “egregious conditions” and “unsafe release practices” at the federal detention center in Batavia have caused detainees “serious injury and even death.” Those claims are leveled in a Freedom of Information request filed Wednesday with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, the agency that runs the Batavia facility, formally known as the Buffalo Service Processing Center. In the FOIA request, the coalition cites current and former detainees’ accounts of beatings, medical neglect and other abuses. In addition to conditions inside the detention center, the coalition takes issue with ICE’s practice of[...]