Michelle Hackman
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They have admitted to wrongly deporting multiple people.
There are lots of sorts of procedural and human rights arguments that people can make when you're in ICE custody in the United States to say your detention is illegal, to get you out of ICE custody on bond, for example.
But once you've been deported, your recourse is very limited.
I haven't really done the proportionality, but because ICE is just so much more ubiquitous and visible now, it does mean that they're getting into more of these confrontations with people.
And so most famously, you have the shooting death of Rene Good.
And we've seen a really high number of deaths in ICE detention.
And that's partially because there are just so many more people in ICE detention.
You will have more people who end up really sick and die.
The conditions inside ICE detention have been reported to be pretty poor as well.
If you have an open asylum case, under the law, you can be detained for the entirety of your asylum case.
You can't be deported until it's been decided one way or another.
But there is no law saying that you have to be free and living in the country.
The reason that has come to be is that we have so many asylum seekers in
And in the past, it's been understood that we don't have enough space to detain them all and that they're a relatively low priority.
If you're not a flight risk, why would you need to be detained?
This government is detaining people partially as a deterrent measure to say, if you are detained that whole time, you're likelier to just give up and leave the country.
What kinds of lawsuits are in the works that could challenge ICE's expanded authority?
There are all sorts.
There are ongoing lawsuits around ICE's use of profiling and what is and isn't okay to sort of weigh when you stop someone to question them.
There are lawsuits around U.S.