A report for Immigration and Customs revealed that officials of the East Montana camp, the new detention facility in Fort Pliss, has already violated dozens of federal standards for detention immigrants since the welcoming of the detainees in August, Washington Post I mentioned Tuesday.
Building began in a hurry in late July, after the government Gave Nearly 232 million dollars were held for the Virginia -based Logistics company to create and operate the short -term migrant detention facility of 5,000 beds. The company specializes in managing the supply chain, and has no experience in detention – it appears.
The first detainees arrived on August 1, just days after the construction started. After only 50 days, and with the 1,400 detainees on the charge, the facility reduced at least 60 violations, according to the last ice examination.
Camp East Montana are held in large tents on an active construction site without the basic amenities, similar to detainees in the closed crocodile now alcatraz. Some toilets and banks did not succeed in the first few weeks, according to the August memorandum that I obtained mail. The detainees were not given access to phones, mail It was reported, only tablets that sometimes did not succeed.
Ricardo Quintana Chavez, a 57 -year -old asylum seeker who was detained in Fort Bliss for 24 days before being deported to Peru, said, mail This water leaked to his cell when other people used bathing.
Chavez also said mail It is rarely allowed abroad. ICE policy requires one hour of entertainment per day, and five days a week, but Inspectors at Camp East Montana found that the detainees were given only 40 minutes of entertainment in the session, and some of them got only three sessions over two weeks. Chavez also said that unwanted food, such as cookies, candy and potato chips, was feed, instead of objective meals.
The detainees were kept in the dark about their cases, and many said they did not know who their deportation officer was violating ICE standards. Chavez said mail He did not receive any information about his asylum case during his three -week residence in the eastern Montana camp.
ICE inspectors also said that the detention center officials have failed to provide appropriate and compulsory medical care for the detainees, and they failed to conduct withdrawals and full medical plans that can be used to determine medical and mental conditions.
Family members and legal representatives have struggled to get them while they were in Camp East Montana, because their location was not available on ICE. Legal actors have finished the facility, as did the actor of Texas Feronica Escobar. She said she complied with ICE’s request for prior warning for a week, but she is still being told that she could not visit until the construction is completed.
Michelle Bran, a former grievance secretary in the detention of immigration, said the report was one of the most assessments related to the migrant detention center that I saw at all. And she said to mail.