Immigrant Abuse Victims End Up in ICE Detention Without Charges as Partners Weaponize Deportation Threats

Immigrant Abuse Victims End Up in ICE Detention Without Charges as Partners Weaponize Deportation Threats

Immigrant women who say they were abused by their partners are being detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after police were called to their homes, in many cases without ever being charged with a crime. The pattern was documented this week in separate investigations by the nonprofit newsrooms ProPublica and The Marshall Project, which reviewed police reports, court filings, and habeas corpus petitions across several states. At…

Women trying to escape domestic abuse instead detained by ICE

They were victims, not abusers. That’s what they told police officers, attorneys, visitors and anyone else who would listen. It didn’t matter. The women were all taken to a sprawling immigration detention center in the woods of west Michigan and handed thin jumpsuits — red, to mark them as a high security risk.Inside the North Lake Processing Center, they talked about the men whose calls to police landed them there. The boyfriends or husbands wh…

These Women Were Trying to Escape Domestic Abuse. ICE Detained Them Instead.

It’s especially intimidating for immigrants suffering abuse to call 911. With this in mind, Congress has long treated people who need help as victims, not targets for deportation. Under the Trump administration, those protections are eroding.