They didn’t explain anything to him. And the Alamance Sheriff’s Office is making it impossible to get a straight answer,” he complained. He vowed to obtain a lawyer on his employee’s behalf, and published the security cam’s video on his Youtube channel for all to see.
ICE Southern Region spokesperson Bryan Cox said that anyone arrested in Alamance County “would typically be transferred to one of ICE’s detention centers in Georgia,” such as CoreCivic-owned Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin. The privately-run prison, two and a half rural hours from Atlanta and a long 500 mile drive from Burlington, has the country’s highest deportation rate of 84%.
Only 1% have their cases dismissed and are released. Durham teen Wildin Acosta was held there and reported maggots in his food. Immigrants at Stewart are allowed one, 1-hour visit a week, although family members report the rules are always changing. Detainees themselves maintain the facility for $1 a day.
That’s not enough to pay a lawyer even if you can find one willing to make the trip to Lumpkin. Only 6% of Stewart detainees manage to get one, according to the American Immigration Council.
Spanish-language newspaper QuéPasa and local community group Siembra NC reported 19 ICE arrests in the region this week. Siembra NC’s Juan Miranda said most of the arrests have been of people who have no criminal record. “We’re talking about kids, for example, who fled El Salvador to escape being killed, fathers going to work.”
Siembra NC is one of the following organizations that are collecting and disseminating information about ICE raids and arrests in North Carolina.
Guilford, Forsyth, Alamance, and Randolph counties
Siembra NC
336-543-0353
Facebook: Siembra NC
Chatham County
El Vínculo Hispano
919-742-1448
Facebook: evhnc
Charlotte-Mecklenburg
Comunidad Colectiva
980-533-5721
Facebook: ComunidadColectivaCLT
Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill
Radar Safe
800- 559- 8714
Facebook: RadarSafe
Alerta Migratoria NC
984-377-2622
https://www.facebook.com/AlertaMigratoria/
And in Lumpkin, GA, El Refugio offers a place to stay for visitors to Stewart Detention Center, and collects clothes and gift cards for family members, as well as prepares “deportation bags” for detainees who are deported with literally nothing more than the clothes on their backs.
https://www.facebook.com/elrefugiostewart/
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