Alexander Martinez says he's gotten COVID-19 in months of immigration detention, dealt with abuse from guards and been harassed for being gay. The number of immigration detainees in the U.S. has more than doubled since the end of February.
Since crossing the border illegally in April, the 28-year-old has bounced between six different facilities in three states. He said he contracted COVID-19, faced racist taunts and abuse from guards and was harassed by fellow detainees for being gay.
The number of detainees has more than doubled since the end of February, to nearly 27,000 as of July 22, according to thefrom U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. That’s above the roughly 22,000 detained last July under then-President Donald Trump, though it’s nowhere close to the record in August 2019, when the number of detainees exceeded 55,000, ICE data shows.
But no other facilities have lost their ICE contracts, and Biden has proposed funding for 32,500 immigrant detention beds in hisA White House spokesman said Biden’s budget reduces the number of ICE detention beds and shifts some of their use to processing immigrants for parole and other alternatives.Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a recent congressional hearing that he’s “concerned about the overuse of detention” and pledged to continue to review problematic facilities.
“By ICE’s own policy, these are people that shouldn’t be in detention any longer,” Altman said, citingMartinez, the Salvadoran national, cleared his initial screening in May, which determines whether an asylum-seeker has a “credible fear” of persecution in their homeland.
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