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Lesdny Suyapa Castillo holds the hand of her sleeping daughter, Nataly, 8, at a park gazebo in the Mexican border city of Reynosa, Mexico Friday, March 26, 2021. Castillo, who says she worked as a frontline COVID-19 nurse in her country of Honduras, says she left for a better life with her daughter to the U.S. after the government stopped paying her salaries. She and her daughter were smuggled into the U.S. on an inflatable raft in order to seek asylum, but they were expelled back to Mexico by U.S. authorities in the night two days ago, despite the fact that her daughter is suffering from health issues.
The vaccination effort appears to be the first in Texas ICE facilities, as hundreds of immigrants are battling COVID-19 in detention facilities across the state.
A Mexican woman previously sued the administrators of Houston Immigration Detention Center on grounds of rape claims on the premises in 2018. The case was later on dismissed after confessing that she lied with aim of acquiring a visa.
The woman was referred to as Jane Doe as she used a pseudonym in court documents. She had lived in Texas illegally for 10 years, according to a Daily Wire report.
The woman reportedly spent two years in prison after she was convicted of causing injury to a child and was transferred to the Houston Processing Center because U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had put a detainer on her after her release from prison.
Woman falsely accused Houston detention center of rape in ploy to get visa
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Attorneys Jose Sanchez, Michelle Simpson Tuegel and Morgan McPheeters announcing a lawsuit they introduced in court on May 28, 2020, indicating that an immigrant woman they represent was raped by guards at the Houston Processing Center, a detention center administered by CoreCivic for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.Courtesy
A Mexican woman who sued the administrators of an immigration detention center in Houston, alleging that she was raped on the premises, dismissed the charges after confessing that she lied with the hope of obtaining a visa designed for victims of certain crimes.
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According to a complaint filed in August with the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General by a Texas-based advocacy group, guards in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in El Paso, Tex., have been sexually assaulting detainees and intimidating them from coming forward. This is part of a larger pattern and practice of abuse in immigration detention centers throughout the state of Texas. Meanwhile, the federal government has done nothing to prevent the sexual assault of those detained and is not providing victims with the support services that are required by law.
Sexual assault and abuse common in Texas detention