The website Colorlines provides a report about a protest by 40 asylum-seekers in detention at a facility in El Paso, Texas, operated by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Many of these individuals are of Indian nationality with Sikh names, and they have been incarcerated for months (nod to Meeta Kaur for the link): Colorlines has obtained a document smuggled out of the detention facility that lists 32 Indian men who have passed their credible fear interview but remain in detention […]

Categories: Civil Rights • Tags: Colorlines, El Paso, political asylum, solitary confinement, Texas, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, undocumented immigrants