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July 25, 2018
A homeland security
bus carries detained
asylum seekers to
a federal prison in
California. Immigrants
swept up by President
Trump’s “zero
tolerance” immigra-
tion policy at the
U.S. –Mexico border
have also been sent
to the federal prison
in Sheridan, Ore.
where conditions
have been described
as intolerable.
Asylum Seekers Endure Brutality
Advocates say
immigrants held
are desperate
(AP) — Strip searches. Over-
crowded cells with open toilets.
Scant meals that violate religious
restrictions.
Federal public defenders say
120 asylum seekers are enduring
those conditions at a federal pris-
on in Sheridan where some have
considered suicide and at least one
has attempted it.
“We are dying day by day in-
side here,” one detainee said, Wil-
liam Teesdale, chief investigator
for the federal public defender’s
office in Oregon, wrote in a filing
in federal court in Portland.
The immigrant was unwilling
to be identified in the filing due to
fear of persecution or retaliation,
Teesdale said in the documents.
Most of the asylum seekers
held at the prison in rural Sheridan
say they faced risks in their home
countries, including India, Nepal,
Guatemala, Mexico and China.
Instead of being welcomed to
the U.S., they ran into the “ze-
ro-tolerance” policy of the Trump
administration that calls for the
detention of people who try to en-
ter the country illegally.
“Here we have come to save
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they spoke with a friend of the accused who told
them Hickman had confessed to strangling a wom-
an.
Mass Shooting in Toronto Sends Shockwaves
A mass shooting ripped through the streets of To-
ronto Sunday night, killing two people—a 10-year-
old-girl and an 18-year-old woman—and wound-
ing 13 others, sending shockwaves throughout the
community. The suspect, identified as 29-year-old
Faisal Hussain is also dead and his family released a
statement expressing their grief for the victims and
saying he suffered from mental health problems.
17 Killed when Duck Boat Sinks in Missouri
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our lives but I think we will die
here in jail,” one detainee said, ac-
cording to Teesdale’s affidavit.
Several detainees have untreat-
ed medical conditions, including
a heart problem, gunshot wound
and broken leg.
He said they are triple-bunked
and confined for long hours in
cells with open toilets. They must
eat in the cells and have no indoor
or outdoor recreational opportuni-
ties.
They are strip-searched in front
of other detainees, and Hindus
were given beef and pork to eat,
even though it’s against their reli-
A homeless man was arraigned
Monday in the death of a wom-
an whose body was found in
a van in north Portland. Terry
Hickman, 58, is charged with
murder in the death of Dal-
las Boyd, 29. According to a
probable cause affidavit, police
A duck boat capsized and sank on a sightseeing
cruise in Missouri near the tourist town of Branson,
killing 17 people. A crane attached to a barge pulled
the boat from Table Rock Lake on Monday where it
had rested after being submerged during a Thursday
evening thunderstorm that generated near-hurricane
strength winds.
Black Father Mortally Wounded in Argument
A 28-year-old black father was mortally wounded in
front of his young children following an argument
with a man over a handicapped parking space in
Florida. The death on Thursday has put the state’s
“stand your ground law,” which first gained prom-
inence after the 2012 shooting death of unarmed
black teen Trayvon Martin, back in the spotlight as
the state decides whether it falls within the claim of
self defense.
Sessions Takes Up ‘Lock Her Up’ Chant
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the top law enforce-
ment officer in the country, participated in a chant of
“Lock her up” Tuesday with a group of conservative
high school scholars, reviving a rallying cry from
Donald Trump’s campaign events calling to jail Hil-
lary Clinton. The chant is in reference to Clinton’s
use of a private email server when she was secretary
of state and Trump’s insistence that she be jailed for
the offense.