Christina Fialho BA ’06, JD ’12 wrote an op-ed about immigration prisons for the Los Angeles Times. She is the founder and executive director of Freedom for Immigrants (formerly CIVIC).
“We have documented widespread abuse in immigrant prisons, including physical and sexual assault, medical neglect, bacterial infections from mold, and maggots in food. Since the creation of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency in 2003, there have been over 180 reported deaths in immigration detention. A report released Wednesday by Human Rights Watch looked at 15 deaths between December 2015 and April 2017; it found that inadequate medical care contributed or led to the person’s death in eight of them.”
Ms. Fialho also spoke about the need to end immigration detention on MSNBC‘s Hardball with Chris Matthews.
