Two American legislators asked the Judicial Committee of the Senate, a “urgent” hearing on the Trump administration’s decision to retain the detained immigrants – many of whom seek to resort – in federal prisons.
The request, which was sent on Wednesday from the Democratic California.
The employee wrote in A “I am concerned that the civil rights of these detainees A two -page message connected to the request of members of the Senate. “They were not accused or convicted and we were literally putting them in prison.”
A spokesman for the Badilla office said that Senator had not received any response from the judicial committee.
A prison agency spokesman will confirm only that the prison office, or BOP, includes some detained immigrants, but has not addressed any of the concerns raised in the message and asking all other questions to immigration and customs, known as ICE.
The request of Senators – and the message of the prison worker – is in the midst About 150,000 prisoners live Through 122 facilities.
Earlier this month, A copy leaked from an agreement between Immigration officials and the director of the prison Agency’s representation showed that many facilities have been allocated to the contract of immigrants – including prisons in Atlanta, Philadelphia, Miami and Levinworth, was.
As mentioned previously, the Federal Promotion of Berlin deficiency in Berlin, NH, is also expected to obtain 500 detainees. In response, prison agency officials sent e -mail Employees in other facilities In search of volunteers from all parts of the country ready to work in the New England countryside.
Email sent from the Prison Union leaders also shows that the Trump administration may consider a plan to send migrants to the recently closed federal “rape” prison in Dublin, California.
Amid these changes, immigration officials were sent for the first time Many detainees to the federal prison in the center of Los Angeles In early February. Initially, as previously mentioned, prison staff were not sure where the detainees or the best ways to keep them separate from other prisoners.
Ultimately, they put men in their own unit inside the facility, and they created additional work for employees, who said one of the officials who know the situation that it was “no guidance” on how to deal with immigrants differently from the typical federal prisoners. (The official asked not to be named, as they were not allowed to speak publicly.)
At the end of last week, Immigration officials sent 12 additional immigrants to a facility in downtown Los Angeles After sweeping the long -awaited ice throughout the province.
The letter of the prison employee this week described the first week in the Metropolitan detention center in Los Angeles on February 2, when they “set out of buses” from the detainees. The prison worker said that the detainees are not ordinary prisoners, which cannot be entered into the system to use phones or connect to their families.
Employees were told that they could not remove them and have to make room for them. We were not trained or employed for this purpose, and we do not know what these individuals are detained.
The message continued the details of the problems that arose during the first Trump administration, when the detainees were sent to a federal prison in Victorville.
The letter said: “There were reports that the detainees obtained insufficient medical care, extended the employees delicate and the work of additional work, and cases of violence resulting from the lack of sufficient resources for employees.” “There were threats to suicide by some detainees, and according to what was reported, many of them were exercising their legal right to search for asylum in this country.”
The prison employee said this time, there is no reason to expect anything different, as the agency continues to struggle with the lack of employment.
It seems that all of the fear of Donald Trump and the need for revenue lead these decisions. But the bottom line is that the BOP employees have not participated in this. ”It seems that the abuse of resources and colleagues does not exceed anything from political gains.”