“Even if You Win, You Stay Locked Up”: How ICE Uses Appeals to Keep Immigrants in Detention
1 October 2021
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1 October 2021
Sara Mendez-Morales had lost almost all hope. It was a cold stretch in early February, and she had spent nearly six months in the custody of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Butler County Jail, a notorious detention center about 35 miles north of Cincinnati. Former detainees have dubbed the facility the “dungeon” and called their incarceration “traumatizing.” The weeks of being deprived of fresh air or sunlight and unable to step out of the two-person cell for longer than an hour and a half had sometimes led Mendez-Morales to wonder if she should just sign her own deportation ...
“Even if you win, you stay locked up”: How ICE uses appeals to keep immigrants in detention
She may have won her immigration case, but for months, it didn't matter.
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