Advocates want ICE to stop deporting undocumented women who are also survivors of sex abuse at FCI Dublin.
More than 120 organizations from across California and the United States sent an open letter to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials demanding that the agency stop detaining and deporting non-citizens of prison staff sexual abuse.
The advocacy groups include Centro Legal de la Raza in Oakland, the Dolores Street Community Services in San Francisco, Rights Behind Bars in Washington, D.C. The basis for the letter to ICE cites many examples of retaliation by officers to sex survivors, using stories by KTVU as documentation. Two months ago, a jury found former warden Ray J. Garcia guilty of sexually abusing three incarcerated women, including a woman who testified at trial that she was undocumented and facing deportation.
A woman identified as T, said she was repeatedly assaulted by FCI Dublin guards and faced retaliation after she reported her abuse. ICE detained her when she was released from prison, and she’s facing imminent deportation. The same advocates said at least 15 more women and witnesses from FCI Dublin are currently in deportation proceedings, including numerous women who have assisted federal investigators. And at least eight others who are still behind bars are the subject of ICE detainers.
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