ICE Abuse

The number of people dying while held in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody is rising at an alarming rate — and less information than ever is being made available to the public about how and why these deaths are occurring.

An 86-year-old French woman who traveled to Alabama to marry a long-lost love she first met at a NATO base in the 1950s is now sitting in an immigration detention facility in Louisiana. Marie-Thérèse Helene Ross was arrested by ICE on April 1 after overstaying her visa, and her family says the conditions of her detention pose a serious risk to her health.

Immigrants like a Venezuelan grandmother face unjust arrests at routine ICE appointments.