"It's fabulous, but I can't help but think about everybody else that's still waiting, knowing that I was fortunate, but nothing's really resolved. There's a lot more work to be done. This is not a one-and-done story. This is continuing to happen."
"I didn't know under what grounds, and when they said it was a charge of moral turpitude, I didn't even know what that was."
"It had not been an ICE facility for very long. They hadn't been used to having ICE detainees there. And so there were a lot of things that happened that I don't know if it was a disconnect between ICE and the centre or whether it's just how the centre did things. It was dirty, all kinds of bugs in the holding cell. When we first got there, they put us in the holding cell. There was faeces on the wall. They gave us mats that hadn't been cleaned. It smelled really, really bad. That was not the worst of i"
A green card holder was detained by US immigration authorities for 143 days while facing deportation over two overdrawn checks totaling under $80 from more than a decade earlier. The detention began after a background screening when she arrived in Chicago and included time at Chicago airport, an ICE detention centre in Chicago, and the Campbell County Detention Centre in Kentucky. The detainee described filthy, bug-infested holding cells, unclean mats, and faeces on the walls. She said she was charged with moral turpitude, felt floored by the detention, and expressed concern for others still awaiting resolution.
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