"He arrived in Alexandria exhausted and sick. It was early April, and Amilcar Lisser-Posadas shackled at his hands and feet had been transferred from a nearby immigration detention center to this remote US immigration facility in Louisiana. He feared it would be his last stop before deportation. He remembered the stench of the place. The packed jail rooms where hundreds of men were warehoused together with little access to showers, which sometimes spouted brown, rusty water when they worked."
"The 29-year-old, a father of two young daughters who are US citizens, had come to the US from Honduras and had previously been protected under the Obama-era program known as Daca (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), which halted deportation for many undocumented people who arrived in the US as children. He had entered as a nine-year-old but his Daca protection had lapsed."
"The isolated, Ice staging facility in rural central Louisiana has emerged as a hub of the Trump administration's deportation machine. The center, which has operated since 2014, is run by the private corrections giant Geo Group. It is considered a black hole, by many lawyers, advocates and former detainees interviewed by the Guardian. Living conditions are deplorable, many former detainees have alleged, and there is almost no legal access to the center."
Amilcar Lisser-Posadas, a 29-year-old father of two US citizen daughters who arrived from Honduras at age nine, was apprehended in Shelby County, Tennessee for driving with an expired license and handed to ICE after his DACA protection lapsed. He was transferred through multiple detention centers and arrived at the Alexandria Staging Facility in rural Louisiana, shackled and ill. Detainees reported packed rooms, a pervasive stench, and limited access to showers that sometimes spouted brown, rusty water. The center is operated by GEO Group, has functioned since 2014, and serves as an isolated ICE deportation hub with reportedly deplorable conditions and almost no legal access.
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