DETROIT, MI (WTVB) – A federal judge is calling out U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and Calhoun County Corrections staff for their treatment of Iraqi detainees.
U.S. District Court Judge Mark Goldsmith has ordered ICE agents and jail staff to stop threatening detainees being held in Calhoun County with solitary confinement.
Goldsmith says the detainees have also been pressured into removing themselves from an American Civil Libertes Union lawsuit.
He issued a similar order June 20, 2018, but the judge said on Wednesday some of it has been ignored.
A spokesman for the Michigan and Ohio branches of ICE told the Detroit Free Press they are reviewing the decision.
The detainees are facing deportation to Iraq due to having criminal records in the United States
