Reporting on June 22, 2023, the Nogales-based Kino Border Initiative (KBI), recounted the expansion of the U.S. administration’s immigration deterrence policies and its effects on migrants detained.
Among cases cited:
Nicol*[name changed to protect privacy] spent 3 months in detention, where she reported that guards pushed her and subjected her to inhumane detention conditions. At 3 am, detainees were forced to work in the kitchen and if they didn’t, they would be made to sleep on the floor without sheets or blankets. She was deported without her personal belongings and still in a jail uniform.
Kino Border Initiative. 2022. “Congressional Year End Report 2023.” Https://Www.Kinoborderinitiative.Org/Annual-Report/. Kino Border Initiative. https://www.kinoborderinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Congressional-Year-End-Report-2023_.pdf.