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The Guardian
03-03-2025
- The Guardian
German tourist is held at immigration detention center for more than a month
A German tourist is fighting to be released from an immigration detention center after she was denied entry at the San Diego border and taken into custody by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) last month. Jessica Brösche, a 26-year-old German tattoo artist, is being indefinitely detained by US Customs and Border Protection after she tried to enter San Diego on 25 January from Tijuana, Mexico, with her American best friend, Amelia Lofving. The two were traveling with tattoo equipment. 'I just want to get home, you know? I'm really desperate,' Brösche told ABC News Team 10 in a phone interview from a detention facility. Lofving, a designer, had just moved to Los Angeles when she met up with Brösche in Tijuana with plans to cross the border together and travel to Los Angeles, but Brösche never made it to the city. Brösche had her German passport, confirmation of her visa waiver to enter the country, and a copy of her return ticket back to Berlin, Lofving said. But she was still pulled aside for a secondary inspection by a US Customs and Border Protection agent. Brösche said she then spent days detained in a cell at the San Diego border before being taken into custody by Ice. The agency brought her to the Otay Mesa detention center, where she's now been for more than a month. According to KPBS, US Customs and Border Protection accused Brösche of planning to violate the terms of the visa waiver program by intending to work as a tattoo artist during her time in Los Angeles. According to ABC's Team 10, she was forced to spend eight days in solitary confinement in the facility. 'She says it was like a horror movie. They were screaming in all different rooms. After nine days, she said she went so insane that she started punching the walls and then she's got blood on her knuckles,' Lofving said of her friend's experience. Lofving said she asked Ice agents if Brösche could be sent back to Mexico, but they responded that her lack of legal residency would mean she would be deported back to Germany. Lofving also said she tried to get help from the German consulate in Los Angeles. Lofving initially had no idea where Brösche was being held or if she had already been deported to Germany. It was only after pleading for help online and using the federal Detainee Locator website that she was able to track down her friend. It would be 25 days before Lofving would find and be allowed to visit her friend at the detention, where she remains.
New York Times
13-02-2025
- Politics
- New York Times
Here Are the Names of 53 Migrants Taken to Guantánamo Bay
The New York Times has obtained a list of 53 men whom the Homeland Security Department has sent from an immigration detention site in Texas to a prison building at the military base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The U.S. government has not released the men's names but has described them as Venezuelan citizens under final deportation orders. By not disclosing the migrants' identities, the government has prevented their relatives from learning where they are being held and complicated efforts by lawyers who want to challenge their detention. The Times is publishing the list. But we have not independently assessed the Trump administration's characterization of the 53 men being housed in the prison, called Camp 6, as 'high-threat illegal aliens' or violent gang members. The Times has found listings for 50 of the men in the U.S. immigration service's Detainee Locator, which allows the public to search for people by name. Until recently, the men had been listed as being held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in El Paso. U.S. cargo planes began moving migrants to Guantánamo, and the agency switched their locations to 'Florida.' Detainee operations at Guantánamo Bay are overseen by the U.S. Southern Command, which is near Miami, and the overall base is supervised by Navy headquarters in Jacksonville, Fla. As of Wednesday, the military had brought about 100 migrants to Guantánamo. The people who are not named on the list were being held in a separate facility. Two of the names subsequently showed up in a lawsuit, which was filed on Wednesday in part by their relatives, seeking legal access to the detainees. The relatives said they recognized the men in pictures from a transfer operation that the government had made public. Three of the names, marked with asterisks, did not appear to be in the locator system, which requires exact spellings. Here is the list: Acosta Carreno, Yonniel Daniel Alviares Armas, Jhonatan Alejandro Azocar-Moreno, Alexandro Bastidas Paz, Jhoan Bellorin-Cardiel, Javier Alejandro Bermudez Gamez, Jose Briceno-Rojas, Adrian Jose Cardozo Oliveros, Carlos Castillo Rivera, Luis Alberto Ceballos-Jemenez, Kleiber Eduardo Chirino Torres, Jonathan Chirinos Rodriguez, Edixon Leonel Duarte-Marin, Allinzon Duran-Arape, Mayfreed Escalona Hernandez, Jefferson * Esteira Medina, Misael Jose Gomez Lugo, Tilso Ramon Guerrero Mejias, Bryan Sleydher Guevara-Varguillas, Sergio Gabriel Guilarte, Oswal Yonaiker Liendo-Liendo, Endry Jose Lindado Mazo, Ricardo Jose Marquez Sanchez, Jesus David Medina Andrade, Jose Gregario Mendez Canas, Freddy Javier Mendez Ramos, Jesus Enrique Montes Fernandez, Franyer Mundaray-Salazar, Argelis Jose Orelanna, Deiby Jose * Oviedo-Hurtado, Brayan Alberto Palma-Osorio, Carlos David Paredes Salazar, Jose Alejandro Prado Pirona, Jesus Purroy Roldan, Yoiner Jose Quintero Quintero, Yohanderson Rios Salas, Luis Alberto Rivas-Rivas, Lorwis Jose Rivero Pinero, Brayan Rodriguez Diaz, Kevin Rodriguez Fermin, Rafael Rojas Pena, Junior Sanchez Vasquez, Junior Sandovalascanio, Anthony Yosmar Santana-Jara, Andres Simancas Rodriguez, Jose Sulbaran D'Avila, Erick Johan Tiberio-Pacheco, Julio Uvieda Machado, Alexis Uzcategui Uzcaegui, Diuvar * Velazquez-Penaloza, Julio Jose Villasana Villegas, Douglas Jesus Wullians Oropeza, Daimer Yanes-Gonzalez, Ali Jose
