The Arizona Removal Operations Coordination Center at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport houses a temporary holding facility for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that houses people detained for immigration violations before they are either flown to long-term detention centers or are deported. (Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy/Arizona Mirror)
911 call reveals ICE pepper-sprayed 47 detainees in overcrowded Mesa holding facility
In the early morning hours of late February, a 911 call was made from a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Mesa because a man was having a seizure after immigration agents used pepper spray on a group of 47 detainees in an enclosed room.
“Um, yeah we had, uh, a officer safety issue here,” ICE Ofc. Gene Rivero told a dispatcher…
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Arizona lawmakers will collect $200K in per diem during their month off, work or not
While the Arizona legislature is on break for the rest of May, lawmakers will collectively make nearly $200,000 in daily subsistence payments, whether or not they travel to the Capitol or do any work.
The Republicans who control the Arizona House of Representatives and the Arizona Senate voted on May 5 to adjourn for the rest of the month, after…
Afternoon light shines on the sign for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service Processing Center in El Centro, Calif., on May 27, 2022. (Stock photo by Matt Gush/Getty Images)
Medical examiner: Arizona ICE detainee’s untreated tooth infection killed him
Emmanuel Damas, a 56-year-old Haitian asylum seeker being held in an immigration detention facility in Arizona, died from severe throat and chest infections that developed from an untreated tooth infection.
The preliminary report published by the Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s Office concluded that Damas’ death was caused by complications from “necrotizing mediastinitis with…
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