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Caribbean immigrants being assaulted in US detension centres – ACLU
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) says it has received reports that a staggering number of Caribbean and other immigrants <span style="font-weight: bold">are being sexually abused at US federal detention centers.
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The ACLU said documents obtained from the federal government, through the Freedom of Information Act, reveal that immigrants reported being sexually abused at the centers nearly 200 times, since 2007.
David Shapiro, Staff attorney with the ACLU National Prison Project, said the alleged victims were civil detainees who are being held pending decisions regarding their right to remain in the United States.
According to Mr. Shapiro, last April, an immigrant detained at New Jersey's Hudson County Correctional Facility reported being stripped naked and sprayed in the genitals with pepper spray.
He said, however, that 56 of the 185 allegations were made in Texas, more than in any other state.
Earlier this week, John Morton, the Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said his agency deported nearly 400,000 immigrants during the fiscal year that ended in September, the largest number of removals in the agency's history
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