All posts tagged "Detention Center"

A CNN reporter was startled during a live broadcast as a clash between federal officers and protesters erupted outside a Texas immigration detention facility.

CNN's Ed Lavandera was outside the ICE facility in Dilley, Texas, where a group of demonstrators demanded the release of 5-year-old Liam Ramos and his father, who were taken last week in Minneapolis to the facility. The ICE detention location was under lockdown following demonstrations over the weekend from detainees who were responding to the killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis and ICE's brutal tactics, while several lawmakers attempted to speak with detained immigrants.

The visit with Texas Democratic Reps. Joaquin Castro and Jasmine Crockett had been underway for more than three hours underway when a clash broke out among the large group. ...

CNN's Brianna Keilar challenged Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) on Wednesday about her actions toward the National Guard outside the Los Angeles Detention Center this week.

Waters was denied entry into the federal building by the National Guard when she tried to check on David Huerta, president of the Service Employees International Union, who was arrested by ICE during the anti-deportation protests.

Afterwards, Waters posted to social media, “Today, I came to the Metropolitan Detention Center to exercise my constitutional rights as a Member of Congress to check on the safety and conditions of SEIU California President David Huerta, who was arrested by ICE. I pled with the National Guard, which was heavily armed, not to use their weapons against peaceful demonstrators who were simply exercising their rights to freedom of speech and protest."...

A vast detention complex is rising from the sandy grounds of Ktzi'ot prison in the Negev desert, close to Israel's border with Egypt, which will become the world's largest holding facility for asylum seekers and migrants.