RICHMOND, VA, Aug. 11 — A multiracial crowd of more than 150 people gathered today in front of Richmond City Hall to demand that city and state officials take a stronger stand against ICE operations in the city.
Virginia tiene dos centros de detención utilizados únicamente para retener a personas secuestradas por el Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE, por sus siglas en inglés).
Virginia has two detention centers used solely to hold people kidnapped by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
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On Nov. 27, “Thanksgiving Day,” a U.S. holiday supposedly dedicated to honoring friendship between the Indigenous peoples of North America and English immigrants to their lands, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued new restrictions against people trying to move to the United States.
Until recently, few people in the Greater Richmond area knew their local airport is being used as a major hub for transporting immigrants from ICE detention centers to major centers from which the detainees are eventually deported.
A northern Virginia-based company contracted by the federal government to run the immigrant detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is coming under intense scrutiny for its alleged abuse at other immigrant centers.
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