Tag: Department of Homeland Security
The Trump administration is putting LGBTQ immigrants in solitary confinement
New documents reveal that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is putting thousands of immigrants into solitary confinement because they’re LGBTQ, disabled, or report abuse from guards, not because they’re violating any rules in detention.
The documents show that ICE used solitary confinement frequently between March 2012 and March 2017, possibly in violation of its own policies. Only half of the thousands of people who had extended stays in solitary confinement were there because they broke a rule.
About one-third of people...
