ICE’s tactics look increasingly like torture | Judith Levine
Summary
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security plans to buy electric shock gloves to be used by immigration agents. Human rights groups and medical experts say such tactics, along with force-feeding hunger-striking detainees and sending asylum seekers back to dangerous countries, may amount to torture. There have also been reports of neglect leading to deaths among released detainees.Key Facts
- Homeland Security will spend up to $20 million on gloves that deliver electric shocks to uncooperative detainees.
- These gloves are called “conductive distraction and de-escalation devices” and are produced by Compliant Technologies.
- Amnesty International and doctors warn that electric shock devices can be torture tools.
- At least 10 immigrant detainees have been force-fed to stop hunger strikes protesting poor conditions.
- Forcing food through a tube into detainees can cause choking and distress, and detainees are often restrained during the process.
- The U.S. is sending some asylum seekers back to countries where they risk torture or death, which violates international law.
- Two released detainees died from exposure after being released without enough support; medical examiners called these deaths homicides.
- The government is delaying payments to groups providing legal help to unaccompanied migrant children to try to get information from them.
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