Immigration
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Dispatches from Detention: Detained at a School Bus Stop
Tags Share Dispatches from Detention shares stories of people encountered by Kennedy Human Rights Center in legal outreach trips to the country’s most isolated immigration detention centers. Names have been changed to protect privacy. Buffalo Federal Detention Facility, Batavia, New York “Five ICE vehicles surrounded me, and my granddaughter and her classmates watched from the
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
1. Life for immigrant families in detention: sick children, no doctors They stole a few hours sleep under glaring LED lights, crowded in by dozens of other detainees. They shivered through fevers and flus and prayed deadlier diseases weren’t stalking their confines. Then, just as they feared their confinement would linger indefinitely, they were released.…
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CNN En Español: The US deports a Colombian woman who is eight months pregnant and had applied for asylum
CNN En Español reports that on Wednesday, the U.S. government deported Zharik Daniela Buitrago Ortiz, a 21-year-old Colombian woman who is eight months pregnant and arrived at the Texas border in November seeking asylum with her mother and siblings. Her deportation proceeded despite a habeas corpus petition alleging she was in a medical emergency and…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Immigration Officers Assert Sweeping Power to Enter Homes Without a Judge’s Warrant, Memo Says Federal immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to forcibly enter people’s homes without a judge’s warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press, marking a sharp reversal of longstanding guidance meant to respect constitutional limits
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Louisiana Illuminator: ACLU says Pregnant Immigrant in Medical Distress Deported through Atlanta Airport
The Louisiana Illuminator reports that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials placed a 21-year-old asylum seeker, Zharick Daniela Buitrago Ortiz, who is eight months pregnant, on a deportation flight on Wednesday afternoon, even though she was in medical distress. According to her attorneys at the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana and the Robert &…
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Jezebel: ICE Is Rushing to Deport a Woman Who’s Eight Months Pregnant
Jezebel reports that Zharick Daniela Buitrago Ortiz, a 21-year-old woman who is eight months pregnant and in need of emergency medical assistance, is being held in an Atlanta airport while awaiting deportation to Colombia. Ortiz and her mother fled to the United States after her father was killed for speaking out against corruption in their…
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11Alive: Rights group says 8 months pregnant 21-year-old deported out of Atlanta airport amid medical distress
11Alive reports that a 21-year-old woman who is eight months pregnant was deported out of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport amid a medical distress situation. The woman, identified as Zharick Daniela Buitrago Ortiz, was experiencing “intense, shooting pain in her back and abdomen” as ICE attempted to remove her while her asylum application was pending. Speaking…
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Guardian: Pregnant Woman in Medical Distress Deported from US, says Attorney
The Guardian reports that a 21-year-old woman who is eight months pregnant and in a state of medical distress was deported to Colombia Wednesday afternoon, despite a court order issued later that evening seeking to block her removal. Zharick Daniela Buitrago Ortiz, who had been in ICE custody, was placed on a plane before the…
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Newsweek: ICE Deporting 8-Month Pregnant Woman in Medical Distress—Attorney
Newsweek reports that a 21-year-old woman who is eight months pregnant and experiencing “serious medical distress” is facing deportation from Atlanta International Airport, according to her attorney. Zharick Daniela Buitrago Ortiz fled Colombia with her family after her father was murdered for reporting political corruption. She arrived in the United States seeking asylum, but was…
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Law360: Ga. Judge’s Halt Of Deportation Too Late For Pregnant Woman
Law360 reports that a Georgia federal judge temporarily blocked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from deporting Zharick Daniela Buitrago Ortiz, who said she was eight months pregnant and in medical distress, but the order came too late to stop her removal. Ortiz is represented by Alexandra M. Smolyar and Meredith Yoon of Asian Americans Advancing…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share ICE Inspections Plummeted as Detentions Soared in 2025 Amid a massive expansion in immigration detention in 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) dramatically reduced the number of facility inspection reports by the agency’s Office of Detention Oversight (ODO), one of its key tools for tracking detention conditions. There was a 36.25% decline in ICE
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