US: Civil rights and civil liberties complaint against ICE’s use of the WRAP
The Texas A&M University School of Law’s Immigrant Rights Clinic with six co-signature organizations (a coalition of Black-led immigrant justice groups), filed a new civil rights and civil liberties complaint that implicates ICE in the use of an FDA-registered medical device and human restraint (The WRAP) to threaten, coerce and punish asylum seekers.
On October 13, 2021, the Texas A&M University School of Law’s Immigrant Rights Clinic with six co-signature organizations (a coalition of Black-led immigrant justice groups), filed a new civil rights and civil liberties complaint that implicates ICE in the use of an FDA-registered medical device and human restraint (The WRAP) to threaten, coerce and punish asylum seekers. The complaint has been filed with the Department for Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL) and DHS Office of Inspector General (OIG). The research which forms the basis of the complaint is by author Sarah Towle. As a result of this work, the DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties has opened investigations of the allegations detailed in the complaint regarding The WRAP ”until further notice”.
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