Numerous lawsuits and judge’s orders have dogged ICE detention centers in recent months, with one federal judge comparing a facility outside Chicago to a “concentration camp.”
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
The struggle against ICE has picked up in Texas since the killings of legal observers in Minneapolis and transporting of 5-year-old Liam Ramos to CoreCivic’s Dilley family detention center.
Demands call for properly categorizing murders of women and female children as femicide, on the way toward ending femicide, transfemicide, and homophobic murders.
Few details have been shared by federal agencies—including who was detained or where they are being held—but the first charges brought have nothing to do with trafficking or gangs.