Northwest ICE Processing Center under fire after series of 911 calls made by workers
What’s happening behind the walls of Tacoma’s Northwest ICE Processing Center? It’s a question that immigration rights advocates, critics, and lawmakers have spent months trying to answer.
On Wednesday, the immigration rights group La Resistencia announced that a series of 911 calls that may give a peak behind the curtain. During a press conference, the group played multiple 911 calls of workers asking for emergency assistance after detainees attempted suicide, or had other medical emergencies.
La Resistencia said the calls come from the same time period as the death of Charles Daniel, a Trinidadian national who was found dead in solitary confinement last month.
ICE records show Daniel served almost three and a half years in solitary confinement, the second-longest stretch in solitary confinement of any person in ICE custody since 2018, despite being identified as having significant mental illness.
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