mmigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

LAWSUIT ALLEGES MISTREATMENT OF DETAINEES AT BORDER PATROL FACILITIES

 

By Miriam Raftery

June 8, 2014 (San Diego) – Alba Quiñones  fled domestic abuse in El Salvador, hoping to seek asylum in the United States.  But after enduring abusive conditions in a U.S. Border Patrol detention facility, she has now filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government—the latest in a string of such lawsuits, Mother Jones magazine reports.


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