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Asylum
Seekers
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gion, and tried to survive on just
the vegetables accompanying the
meals, Teesdale said.
Immigration and Customs En-
forcement recently transferred
four detainees to a center in Taco-
ma, Washington, for specialized
medical care, ICE spokeswoman
Clarissa Cutrell said.
The agency has no comment on
the conditions in Sheridan due to
pending litigation, Cutrell said.
Leland Baxter-Neal, an attor-
ney with the American Civil Lib-
erties Union of Oregon, called the
conditions inhumane and uncon-
stitutional.
The Trump administration’s
decision to put the immigrants in
the prison, where they mixed for
three weeks with the general pris-
on population, has caused “chaos,
confusion and massive human suf-
fering,” he said.
Federal Public Defender Lisa
Hay said in a letter to Warden Jo-
saias Salazar and Acting ICE Field
Office Director Elizabeth Godfrey
that her office learned of an appar-
ent suicide attempt by a detainee.
Other detainees also considered
killing themselves, court docu-
ments state.
Petitions were filed Wednes-
day by Hay’s office seeking court
hearings for five detainees, whose
names were redacted because of
their security concerns.
“I have to cry in my pillow,”
an immigrant identified as ICE
detainee No. 1 said in his habe-
as corpus brief. “I have suicidal
thoughts but then I remember my
family. My family is all that keeps
me going.”
The public affairs office of the
Federal Bureau of Prisons did not
immediately respond to a request
for comment.
A statement filed in court
shows the prison had to scramble
to take in the immigrants, who
were sent there because other
holding facilities used by ICE
were overloaded.
The prison received only one
day of notice — on May 30 — that
about 130 detainees would be ar-
riving, Amberly Newman, an ad-
viser to the prison warden, said in
a declaration in federal court.
She said they had to be mixed
with the general prison population
for the first three weeks before
they could be separated into dif-
ferent units.
One of the detainees described
guards making him and his two
cellmates strip to their underwear.
“In the night, it gets so cold in
the cell and when l was in boxers
and T-shirt, I was terribly cold,”
he said, according to his habeas
corpus filing.
Victoria Bejarano Muirhead
of Innovation Law Lab said her
Portland-based group has engaged
over 80 volunteers to provide le-
gal services to the detainees.
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Court Pick Derailed
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Majority Leader Mitch McCo-
nnell pulled the confirmation vote
just minutes before it was set to
begin. Senate Judiciary Chairman
Chuck Grassley, who supported
Bounds, said the president has
also withdrawn the nomination.
Bounds earlier had apologized
for the controversial writings,
saying they showed insensitivity
to racial minorities, among other
issues, describing them as “poor-
ly worded and ill-conceived pro-
nouncements of a youth who had
much to learn about the world.”
Bounds was selected by Presi-
dent Trump for a lifetime appoint-
ment to the court, He was born in
Umatilla, Ore. and raised in nearby
Hermiston. He was a member of
the conservative Federalist Society.
Oregon Sens. Ron Wyden and
Jeff Merkley, both Democrats,
had objected to the nomination
and protested his confirmation in
speeches on the Senate floor.
Nominees usually cannot move
forward over the objection of
home state senators but this year
McConnell and Grassley ignored
that tradition.
After Bounds’ defeat, Wyden
and Merkley said they would be
interested in working with Repub-
licans to find a new nominee and
will consult with a state selection
committee which will forward
names to the White House.
Bounds issued a statement say-
ing he was proud to have been
nominated and plans to continue
in his role as a federal prosecutor.
Obituary
Homegoing
Celebration
Ron Webb
A memorial service for Ron
Webb, sunrise May 20, 1938
and sunset, July 16, 2018, has
been scheduled for this Thurs-
day, July 26 at 11 a.m. at Mt.
Olivet Baptist Church, 8501 N.
Chautauqua Blvd.