Two US legislators have asked the Senate Justice Committee to hold an “urgent” hearing about the decision of the Trump administration, to keep imprisoned migrants – to look for many of them for asylum.
The application, which was sent on Wednesday by California Democratic Sens. Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla, expressed concerns about the treatment of the prisoners and cited a letter from an unnamed prison employee who described the conditions in the federal blocking in Los Angeles and accused “Fear of Donald Trump” for the “inhuman” situation.
“I am alerted that the civil rights of these prisoners are not confirmed,” wrote the employee in A Two-sided letter to the request of the senators. “They were not charged or convicted and we literally put them in prison.”
A spokesman for Padilla's office said that the senator received no response from the judicial committee.
A spokesman for the prison authority would only confirm that the Bureau of Prisons or BOP houses some detained migrants, but does not take into account any of the concerns ejected in the letter and addressed all other questions to the immigration and customs authority, known as ICE.
The proposal of the senators – and the letter from the prison worker – come in the middle of the Trump government to accommodate more migrants in the troubled federal prison system that is already responsible Living space around 150,000 inmates over 122 facilities.
Early this month, a leaked copy of an agreement between Immigration officers and the deputy director of the prison authority showed that several facilities are intended for migrants – including prisons in Atlanta, Philadelphia, Miami and Leavenworth,.
As the Times previously reported, the understaffed federal prison in Berlin, NH, also expects 500 prisoners. In response, the officials of the prison authority sent an e -mail to an e -mail Employees in other institutions Looking for volunteers from all over the country who are willing to work in rural New England Lockup.
E -mails sent by the leaders of the prison union also show that the Trump government is considering a plan to have sent immigrants to the recently closed federal prison in Dublin, California.
In the middle of these changes, the immigration officers sent for the first time Several prisoners of the federal prison in downtown Los Angeles Early February. As the Times previously reported, the prison staff were initially not sure where to accommodate the prisoners or how best to keep them separated from other prisoners.
Finally, they put the men into their own unity in their own unity and create additional work for the staff, of whom an official had “no instructions” with knowledge of the situation, how migrants can handle differently than typical federal prisoners. (The official asked not to be named because they were not justified to speak publicly about the matter.)
Last weekend, Immigration officers sent 12 other migrants to the facility in the city center of LA After a highly awaited ice cream over the district of sweeps.
In the letter from the prison employee this week, the first arrivals in the metropolitan detention center in Los Angeles were described on February 2, as ice agents “buses” from prisoners. Since the prisoners are not normal occupants, the prisoner said that they cannot be entered in the system to use the phones or contact their families.
“Employees were said that they did not have to reject them and make room to accommodate them. We were not trained or employed for this purpose and do not know what these people are detained for, ”says the letter. “BOP resources are used to condemn prisoners, although our limited resources should not occur.”
In the letter, problems were detailed that occurred during the first Trump government when prisoners were sent to a federal prison in Victorville.
“There were reports of prisoners who received inadequate medical care, the employees were thin and over the time and cases of violence from lack of resources,” said the letter. “There were threats to suicide by some prisoners, some of whom reported their legal right to asylum in this country.”
This time, according to the prison employee, there was no reason to expect something else, since the agency continues to struggle with a lack of personnel.
“It seems as if both the fear of Donald Trump and the need for income are making these decisions ahead. However, the conclusion is that BOP employees have not registered for this, ”wrote the employee. “This abuse of resources and my colleagues seems to be nothing more than political profit.”