Amnesty urges abolition of ICE after report alleges rights abuses
Amnesty International has called for the abolition of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement after publishing a report alleging widespread human rights violations during large-scale operations. The report followed the shooting and wounding of a Venezuelan migrant by an ICE agent in Austin, Texas.
Amnesty International has called for the abolition of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency tasked with leading Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant crackdown, according to the South China Morning Post. The rights organisation made the appeal in a report released on Thursday. Titled “We Had Whistles, They Had Guns”, the report documents what Amnesty describes as widespread human rights violations during large-scale ICE operations.
The supplied material does not give details of the individual cases examined in the report or state how many operations, migrants or officers it covered. It also does not include a response from ICE, the Trump administration or any other US authority to Amnesty’s allegations. The report’s release came less than a week after Wilber Garces Perez, a Venezuelan migrant, was shot and wounded by an ICE agent in Austin, Texas.
The available account does not explain the circumstances of the shooting, identify the agent or provide an update on Perez’s condition. Amnesty’s demand concerns the abolition of ICE, which is responsible for immigration enforcement in the United States. The supplied material does not say what alternative arrangements the organisation proposes or whether any official has responded to its call.
The report establishes the watchdog’s position and the broad allegation it makes about ICE operations. Further findings, casualty figures and details of the agency’s response are not included.
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