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SOS in the News

Trump administration to resume housing detained immigrants in controversial Florida facility | Miami Herald | April 2, 2025

“‘What is missing from any decision to reopen Glades is whether they have even come close to addressing the gross deficiencies that required them to close in the first place,’ said Katie Blankenship, immigration attorney and co-founding partner for Sanctuary of the South.”

Immigrant deaths in ICE detention in South Florida demand action | Miami Herald | March 26, 2025

"This sounds like the stuff of nightmares. It is. It is also the current reality in the U.S. — a daily government-sponsored terrorism inflicted on millions of immigrants physically and emotionally targeted by the Trump administration. Many of these people were forced to flee their home countries due to violently destabilizing foreign policies by the U.S. government."

Immigrant women describe 'hell on earth' in ICE detention | USA Today | March 23, 2025

The council estimates it would cost $88 billion a year to deport 1 million immigrants. ‘They clearly have plans to reopen facilities or build new ones,’ Gonzalez, the Louisiana attorney, said, ‘but in the meantime they are overcrowding the existing facilities.’"

Lawsuit Alleges Trump’s Guantánamo Transfers Aim to “Instill Fear” in Immigrants | truthout | March 4, 2025

Katie Blankenship, managing partner for Sanctuary of the South, a human rights group, has been visiting the Krome North Service Processing Center in southern Florida where the Ukrainian refugee and at least one other detainee recently died. Blankenship is working with the family of the Ukrainian man to get an independent autopsy and file a wrongful death lawsuit.