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More Than 40 Immigrants Have Died in ICE Custody
Loaded on April 1, 2021
by Anthony Accurso
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2021, page 58
Filed under:
Medical Neglect/Malpractice,
Immigration Law/Offenses.
by Anthony W. Accurso
Thanks to a Freedom of Information Act filing, which wrote about its findings in an October 29, 2020 story, filed by Buzzfeed, we now know that more than 40 immigrants have died while in custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), often because of neglect ...
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