Civil rights groups denounce that 48 ICE detainees have been ‘forcibly disappeared’
The ACLU files a complaint over immigration authorities’ failure to release the identities of residents arrested in New Mexico, noting that ‘arbitrary and enforced disappearance is unlawful under the US Constitution’
In the first week of March, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted an “enhanced enforcement operation” in New Mexico that resulted in the arrest of 48 people, as reported by the agency itself. Their names, whereabouts, whether they have access to counsel and which agency is holding them are all unknown, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which considers them to have been “forcibly disappeared.”
