Warren Investigates Reports of ICE Secretly Moving Migrants to For-Profit Detention Facilities

Warren Investigates Reports of ICE Secretly Moving Migrants to For-Profit Detention Facilities

U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren is investigating reports that ICE secretly transferred migrants to three new for-profit detention facilities in Mississippi and Louisiana.

Warren sent a letter to Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Mark Morgan asking for answers to the reports.

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"ICE appears to be spending money to secretly house migrants in for-profit facilities with demonstrated failures to provide safe and secure conditions, rather than improving conditions in existing facilities. These reports add to the growing body of evidence that private, for-profit prisons are rife with safety, health, and human rights concerns. We should abolish them altogether,” wrote Warren.

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Warren requested answers to her questions by July 25, 2019.

The Reports

According to reports, ICE has decided to place immigrant detainees at these facilities without providing proper notice, despite the fact that they pose serious health and safety concerns. 

According to Warren’s press release, ICE did not publicly disclose the use of the Adams County or Catahoula centers, confirming their use only in response to the public reports.

CoreCivic announced that BOP did not renew its contract for Adams County Correctional Center, but did not announce that it had later contracted with ICE or that it had begun to move migrants into the facility.

And reports suggest that ICE has not provided the proper notice to attorneys representing individuals who have been transferred.