Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez was removed from urgently needed medical care after being shot seven times by federal immigration agents and transferred through five detention facilities in four days, while his family and legal team struggled to determine his whereabouts.
Two Fordham Law School leaders have described troubling conditions inside the nation’s largest immigrant detention center, highlighting the dire circumstances of detainees and the need for Congress to take action.
Immigrants’ rights organizations have filed two motions in federal court to stop the Trump administration’s unlawful and inhumane immigration enforcement tactics, which include arresting people at immigration courthouses and detaining them in unsafe conditions.
Immigrants’ rights advocates have filed a federal lawsuit challenging Florida’s authority to detain people at the Alligator Alcatraz detention center, citing unsafe and unsanitary conditions, and arguing that the state is violating federal law by attempting to run its own immigration detention system.