[Peace-discuss] U.S. Blocks UN Visit to Texas Immigration Prison

[Brian Dolinar]

>From Democracy Now:

*U.S. Blocks UN Visit to Texas Immigration Prison *
The U.S. government has blocked a United Nations expert from visiting a jail
in Texas where the U.S. is holding up to 400 immigrants including children
and asylum seekers. The U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of
Migrants, Jorge Bustamante, is in the middle of a three-week fact-finding
mission to examine how immigrants are being treated in the United States.
Bustamante had planned on visiting the Hutto immigration facility in Taylor
Texas today but his visit has been blocked by the Immigration and Customs
Enforcement. Earlier this year, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a
federal lawsuit on behalf of 12 children detained at the Hutto facility,
charging that the children are subject to inhumane treatment.

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Brian Dolinar, Ph.D.
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