In at least two cases, ICE allowed detention facilities to destroy or overwrite video evidence critical to its investigations into detention deaths. Systemic failures in medical and mental health care have caused preventable deaths in ICE detention . Immediately release from ICE detention people who have prevailed in their immigration cases before an Immigration Judge, instead of continuing detention upon ICE’s administrative appeal. Pass local ordinances or legislation to prohibit the physical expansion of detention facilities that would allow increased capacity for detention. 2 ICE, “ICE Facilities Data,” April 15, 2024, https://www.ice.gov/doclib/detention/FY24_detentionStats04252024.xlsx3 “Fiscal Year 2024 Homeland Security Appropriations Bill.” House Republicans Appropriations, accessed May 10, 2024, https://appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-appropriations.house.gov/files/documents/FY24%20Homeland%20Security%20-%20Bill%20Summary%20Updated%206.21.23.pdf [https://perma.cc/MN9E-7RT7].

Source: New York Times June 25, 2024 13:04 UTC