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30 Oct, 8 tweets, 2 min read
NEW: BuzzFeed News has obtained thousands of pages of documents from internal investigations of deaths of immigrants held in ICE custody.

We are releasing all of the case files that have been turned over.

buzzfeednews.com/article/kendal…
The documents show:

In multiple instances, guards who were supposed to observe detainees placed in solitary confinement for extra monitoring falsified records to hide apparent dereliction of duty.
In at least two cases — at Eloy Detention Center in Arizona and Adelanto Detention Facility in California — people died while they were not being watched but should have been.
After Roxsana Hernandez, a 33-year-old trans asylum-seeker from Honduras died in custody in May 2018, ICE initially blamed her death on cardiac arrest.
But some investigators took issue with her treatment, noting that Hernandez lost 40 pounds in custody, and questioned why Customs and Border Protection had transferred someone in such a vulnerable medical state.
A private firm retained by ICE to review detainee deaths appeared to offer to exclude potentially troublesome information about her care while in custody from its findings.

“If you want me to back off,” one of the company’s analysts wrote, “I will modify the report accordingly."
Investigators found other failures. One man whom doctors noted had no lower teeth and was missing several upper teeth during a physical, for example, was not given a special diet to make sure his nutritional intake was adequate.
More details in there and please read the files.

Shoutout @KendallTTaggart @JasonLeopold @kenbensinger @jvgarrison

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28 Oct
Anonymous is the the former DHS chief of staff who was at the agency in key roles during family separation, the remain in Mexico program, the public charge program and so on.
Taylor has addressed the family separation issue but in a limited fashion. I've requested interviews with him on his role on immigration policy during his time in the administration:

nbcnews.com/news/latino/ex…
Colleagues @RMac18 & @JasonLeopold on Taylor:

One former DHS official:

“The idea that you could disassociate from a policy that consumed the entire department while you were deputy chief of staff is ridiculous,” the former official said."

buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanma…
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23 Oct
NEW: Two controversial border programs were rife with issues, including families forced to remain in custody longer than appropriate, girls stuck in the same detention space w/ unrelated men, & toilets that had limited privacy, per leaked draft IG report.

buzzfeednews.com/article/hameda…
“We found that CBP held many families together in large open cells in the El Paso [Central Processing Center] with no assurance of privacy or separation of juveniles from unrelated adults,” the report states. In one cell, two 14-year-old girls were held with nine unrelated men.
“Toilet stalls in the living area with waist-high partitions offered little privacy” and there was no “private space for nursing” despite there being mothers with infants.
Read 8 tweets
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21 Oct
NEW: ICE confirms a BuzzFeed News report that the agency was implementing a policy that allows officers to quickly deport immigrants who can’t prove they’ve been in the US for a certain period of time.

This is a potential game-changer moving forward.

google.com/amp/s/www.buzz… ImageImage
These deportations generally happen WITHOUT immigration judge oversight.

Immigrants have to use documents to prove the period of time they’ve been in the US.

Attorneys worry that this policy will expose those who can’t prove the length of their stay in the US.
The ICE statement leaves out many details from the agency training materials and the internal memo.

ICE officers have been told they must not apply the quick deportations to people who can prove they were in the US before the policy was first issued last July.
Read 6 tweets
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7 Oct
NEW: ICE officials have started to implement a policy that allows officers to arrest and rapidly deport undocumented immigrants who have been in the US for less than two years, according to internal emails and documents obtained by BuzzFeed News.

buzzfeednews.com/article/hameda…
The shift could allow the Trump administration to increase deportations while circumventing a court system that is severely backed up and short on resources, but advocates for immigrants have said it would destroy their due-process rights.
We got the internal emails and guidance memos on this policy, just issued late last week.

What we found:

ICE officers cannot revisit cases of immigrants who are already in deportation proceedings & cannot quickly deport people who can prove they were in the US before July 23.
Read 8 tweets
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7 Oct
Acting DHS Sec. Wolf echoing comments we've heard since 2018 --- that ICE will be forced to do more at-large arrests due to "sanctuary policies" that limit jail cooperation with immigration enforcement. He says that as a result of this collateral arrests will increase.
Wolf highlighting a few of the arrests individuals with more serious criminal records --- unclear the full breakdown of this operation and each individual's past.
Wolf slams sanctuary policies and tells these communities to do their "job" --- notable that local law enforcement has said that these policies help them in their local criminal investigations because of the trust it creates in immigrant communities.
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7 Oct
NEW: ICE arrested more than 100 immigrants across California in an operation last week, the latest effort by the agency to target the state, according to a source w/ knowledge of this operation.

buzzfeednews.com/article/hameda…
The details of the operation, which occurred last week in Northern and Southern California and were described to BuzzFeed News by a source with knowledge of it, are expected to be released in a news conference on Wednesday in Washington, DC.
ICE’s acting leader, Tony Pham, and Chad Wolf, the acting Department of Homeland Security secretary, plan to slam local officials for so-called “sanctuary” policies.
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