These Civil Rights Advocates Toured Louisiana ICE Detention Centers. Here’s What They Saw.
In late July, officials with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement provided access to three detention centers they operate in Louisiana to a group of about 20 civil rights advocates. Their tour included the Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center, located on the former England Air Force Base in Alexandria. It’s become a conduit for individuals apprehended around the country to the nine ICE detention centers in Louisiana, where immigration court watchers say judges are more likely to be aligned to the Trump administration’s enforcement policy. The other ICE facilities on the tour were the South Louisiana Processing Center in Basile, which holds only women, and the Pine Prairie Processing Center in Evangeline Parish.
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Rats running across sandwich bread. Seventy people in a crowded bunk room without air conditioning with outside temperatures nearing 90 degrees. A woman begging for four and a half months to see a doctor for suspected colon cancer, and still she waits. Another woman finally granted a doctor’s visit, only to be sexually assaulted. These are some of the horror stories we heard during our recent visit to ICE detention centers across Louisiana, many of which are run by the notorious GEO Group, a private prison operator. These stories aren’t the exception.
State Department Human Rights Report Scaled Back, Omits Details on Abuses in Politically Allied Countries
The US State Department on Tuesday released a pared-down version of its annual report meant to catalogue human rights concerns in countries around the world. The report covers the 2024 calendar year – before the Trump administration took office – and sources told CNN it was largely completed before the US president began his second term. However, it underwent significant revisions in the subsequent months. For some countries like El Salvador whose leaders are political allies of the Trump administration, there was far less criticism and detail about reports of their human rights abuses.
A Year After Revolution, Hope Turns to Frustration in Bangladesh
Just over a year ago, after Sheikh Hasina, the autocratic leader of Bangladesh, unleashed a brutal crackdown on protesting students, Abu Sayed stood defiantly in front of armed police officers in the city of Rangpur, his arms outstretched. Moments later he was hit by bullets and later died from his injuries, his family said. He was one of almost 1,400 to die in a mass uprising that eventually toppled Ms. Hasina’s 15-year rule. Ms. Hasina later fled to India. She left behind a country on the brink of anarchy, but one also suffused with hope.