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ICE Officials Accused of Covering Up Immigrant Deaths in Detention

January 13th, 2010
Categories: News, Police State

Link: http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/13/ice_officials_accused_of_covering_up

The Obama administration has promised to overhaul immigration detention. But a scathing report in the New York Times last weekend reveals that federal officials used their role as overseers to prevent media from reporting deaths and abuses inside the nation’s immigration prisons. Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE now admits 107 immigrants died in ICE custody since October 2003 but for years the deaths went uncounted in the public record.

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