Posted on 01/26/2016 5:29:12 PM PST by jazusamo
Illegal immigrant women being detained at a California jail say they are being "humiliated" by strip-searches, particularly in cases involving transgender detainees, and have filed a complaint demanding federal officials put a stop to it.
The complaint, sent Monday to the Santa Ana City Jail and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which contracts with the jail to hold illegal immigrants, is the latest step in an escalating push by immigrant rights advocates to try to end the detention of women and children in the country illegally and, in the meantime, to alleviate conditions at the facilities.
In this case, advocates say the Obama administration isn't taking enough steps to secure the dignity of illegal immigrants, particularly transgender women. They say the jail conducts invasive and embarrassing searches and forces detainees to "stand and walk barefoot on dirty floors contaminated with bodily fluids."
"These searches are particularly traumatizing for asylum seekers who have survived sexual assault and rape, and the strip searches undermine the healing these women need," Christina Fialho, general counsel at Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement, said in the complaint.
Nine other organizations, including the local American Civil Liberties Union chapter, gay rights groups and immigrant advocacies, supported the complaint.
ICE said in a statement that it is committed to fair treatment of its detainees and has ordered an investigation into the accusations.
Thirty-one women -- six who publicly identified themselves and 25 who chose to remain anonymous because of fear of retribution -- detailed some of the searches.
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Thanks 0bama for the total destruction of our immigration law and border security.
The agenda is clear....once you realize what is going on it all makes sense.
Yes, all one of them.
Good!
the feds are not the ultimate authority here.
Once America comes back down to this realization, we will be a greater nation.
Take out the Border Patrol and put in the TSA. Then the exams will get real exhaustive.
Tough hop.
Tired of this crap.
Oh, now I’m all broken up by this. Sob.
(staring blankly at keyboard) . . . .
A clear message needs to be sent to all immigrants legal and illegal. You are welcome if you go through the proper channels and not illegally. You will respect our laws and customs as well as our language. If you are found to have committed a crime, even a traffic violation then you lose your right to stay here as does your family if they came here the same time.
If you come here then you have to provide your own expenses and not suck off the tax payer.
Well, that’s just too darn bad, ain’ it?
Invaders ain’t got no rights.
If they don’t like it, don’t sashay across the border!
BUMP that!
Let’s spare them the indignity and deport them immediately
“Take out the Border Patrol and put in the TSA. Then the exams will get real exhaustive.”
Why is that? Is the average illegal alien a 90 year old white woman with a colostamy bag in a wheel chair?
Invaders have NO rights.
Tough!
However, I feel sorry for the Ice people having to do this on these scumbags!
I totally agree.
They’re doing their jobs and having illegal alien rights groups (whatever they are because illegals shouldn’t have rights) come down on them.
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