This Is How ICE Stops Journalists From Reporting On Detained Immigrants
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I honestly don’t know how you can read this first-hand report from journalist Molly Crabapple and think that abolishing ICE is a radical position. Read this whole damn thing.
an example of how ICE withholds information to keep press out of their facilities: I obtained permission to visit the immigration court at Port Isabel detention center. My friend and me drive up for hearings at 830
— Molly Crabapple (@mollycrabapple) July 17, 2018
I offer to have her drop me off and leave. He tells me this is also forbidden. I cannot park the car inside muself because that would involve leaving my friend at the end of a dirt road in the middle of nowhere in the blazing sun for hours
— Molly Crabapple (@mollycrabapple) July 17, 2018
I’m able to go to the afternoon session of court by paying a taxi 30$ to drive me 10 minutes into the center. Immigrants leaving detention are also required to be picked up by these exorbitantly expensive taxis, instead of walking to the gate. It’s up to $60 to the nearest town
— Molly Crabapple (@mollycrabapple) July 17, 2018
As for visits at Port Isabel, ICE requires reporters to submit immigrants’s names, dob, alien registration numbers and countries of origin at least 48 hours in advance. While prisoners’s names, locations and numbers are available to the public, detained immigrants’ are not.
— Molly Crabapple (@mollycrabapple) July 17, 2018
At Port Isabel, immigrants are only allowed to speak to reporters for a half hour at a time on Wednesday mornings. When I applied to meet five immigrants who wanted to speak to me, ICE called this “excessive”
— Molly Crabapple (@mollycrabapple) July 17, 2018