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THE EXPANSION AND TROUBLING USE OF ICE DETENTION HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION AND CITIZENSHIP OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED SIXTEENTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION SEPTEMBER 26, 2019 Serial No. 116–53 Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary ( Available via the World Wide Web: http://judiciary.house.gov U.S. GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICE 38–409 WASHINGTON : 2020 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:14 Sep 14, 2020 Jkt 038409 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 5011 Sfmt 5011 E:\HR\OC\A409.XXX A409 ctelli on DSK11ZRN23PROD with HEARING COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY JERROLD NADLER, New York, Chairman ZOE LOFGREN, California DOUG COLLINS, Georgia, SHEILA JACKSON LEE, Texas Ranking Member STEVE COHEN, Tennessee F. JAMES SENSENBRENNER, JR. HENRY C. ‘‘HANK’’ JOHNSON, JR., Wisconsin Georgia STEVE CHABOT, Ohio THEODORE E. DEUTCH, Florida LOUIE GOHMERT, Texas KAREN BASS, California JIM JORDAN, Ohio CEDRIC L. RICHMOND, Louisiana KEN BUCK, Colorado HAKEEM S. JEFFRIES, New York JOHN RATCLIFFE, Texas DAVID N. CICILLINE, Rhode Island MARTHA ROBY, Alabama ERIC SWALWELL, California MATT GAETZ, Florida TED LIEU, California MIKE JOHNSON, Louisiana JAMIE RASKIN, Maryland ANDY BIGGS, Arizona PRAMILA JAYAPAL, Washington TOM MCCLINTOCK, California VAL BUTLER DEMINGS, Florida DEBBIE LESKO, Arizona J. LUIS CORREA, California GUY RESCHENTHALER, Pennsylvania MARY GAY SCANLON, Pennsylvania, BEN CLINE, Virginia Vice-Chair KELLY ARMSTRONG, North SYLVIA R. GARCIA, Texas Dakota JOE NEGUSE, Colorado W. GREGORY STEUBE, Florida LUCY MCBATH, Georgia GREG STANTON, Arizona MADELEINE DEAN, Pennsylvania DEBBIE MUCARSEL-POWELL, Florida VERONICA ESCOBAR, Texas PERRY APELBAUM, Majority Staff Director & Chief Counsel BRENDAN BELAIR, Minority Staff Director SUBCOMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION AND CITIZENSHIP ZOE LOFGREN, California, Chair PRAMILA JAYAPAL, Washington, Vice-Chair J. LUIS CORREA, California KEN BUCK, Colorado, SYLVIA R. GARCIA, Texas Ranking Member JOE NEGUSE, Colorado ANDY BIGGS, Arizona DEBBIE MUCARSEL-POWELL, TOM MCCLINTOCK, California Florida DEBBIE LESKO, Arizona VERONICA ESCOBAR, Texas KELLY ARMSTRONG, North SHEILA JACKSON LEE, Texas Dakota MARY GAY SCANLON, W. GREGORY STEUBE, Florida Pennsylvania DAVID SHAHOULIAN, Chief Counsel ANDREA LOVING, Minority Counsel (II) VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:14 Sep 14, 2020 Jkt 038409 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 E:\HR\OC\A409.XXX A409 ctelli on DSK11ZRN23PROD with HEARING C O N T E N T S SEPTEMBER 26, 2019 OPENING STATEMENTS Page The Honorable Pramila Jayapal, Washington, Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship, House Committee on the Judiciary ........................................ 2 The Honorable Ken Buck, Colorado, Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Im- migration and Citizenship, House Committee on the Judiciary ...................... 8 The Honorable Jerrold Nadler, Chairman, House Committee on the Judiciary 9 WITNESSES Ms. Selene Saavedra-Roman, College Station, Texas Oral Testimony ................................................................................................. 42 Prepared Statement ......................................................................................... 44 Mr. Denis Davydov, San Jose, California Oral Testimony ................................................................................................. 50 Prepared Statement ......................................................................................... 52 Ms. Blanche Ornella Engochan, Silver Spring, Maryland Oral Testimony ................................................................................................. 56 Prepared Statement ......................................................................................... 58 Ms. Heidi Altman, Director of Policy, National Immigrant Justice Center Oral Testimony ................................................................................................. 60 Prepared Statement ......................................................................................... 62 Mr. Jorge Baro´n, Executive Director, Northwest Immigrant Rights Project Oral Testimony ................................................................................................. 77 Prepared Statement ......................................................................................... 80 Ms. Melanie Schikore, Executive Director, Interfaith Community for Detained Immigrants Oral Testimony ................................................................................................. 89 Prepared Statement ......................................................................................... 91 Mr. Thomas D. Homan, Former Acting Director, U.S. Immigration and Cus- toms Enforcement Oral Testimony ................................................................................................. 100 Prepared Statement ......................................................................................... 102 Mr. Charles A. Jenkins, Sheriff, Frederick County Sheriff’s Office Oral Testimony ................................................................................................. 107 Prepared Statement ......................................................................................... 109 LETTERS, STATEMENTS, ETC., SUBMITTED FOR THE HEARING Prepared Statement of the Honorable Adam Smith; Submitted by the Honor- able Pramila Jayapal ........................................................................................... 4 Complaint Filed by Civil Rights Organizations regarding ‘‘Failure to provide adequate medical and mental health care to LGBTQ people and people living with HIV in Immigration detention facilities’’; Letters of Support from over 70 LGBTQ and allied organizations, the National Council of Asian Pacific Americans, and Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkin, and; a Resolu- tion of Support from the U.S. Conference of Mayors; Submitted by the Honorable Pramila Jayapal ................................................................................. 12 (III) VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:14 Sep 14, 2020 Jkt 038409 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 E:\HR\OC\A409.XXX A409 ctelli on DSK11ZRN23PROD with HEARING IV Page Prepared Statements of the American Civil Liberties Union; Asian Americans Advancing Justice; the American Immigration Council; Al Otro Lado; the Center for Victims of Torture; Detention Watch Network; the Friends Com- mittee on National Legislation; Government Accountability Project; the Interfaith Immigration Coalition; the National Immigration Forum; the Southeast Asia Resource Action Center; United We Dream, with their arti- cle with Center for American Progress entitled, ‘‘DACA Recipients’ Liveli- hoods, Families, and Sense of Security Are at Stake This November,’’ and report entitled, ‘‘The Truth About ICE & CBP,’’ and; Prepared Statement of Abdikadir Abdulahi Mohamed; Submitted by the Honorable Pramila Jayapal .................................................................................................................. 124 Newsweek article entitled, ‘‘Ex-ICE Director Says He Considered ‘Beating’ Latino Congressman During Hearing’’; Submitted by the Honorable Joe Neguse ................................................................................................................... 217 American Immigration Council and American Immigration Lawyers Associa- tion letter regarding ‘‘Failure to Provide Adequate Medical and Mental Health Care to Individuals Detained in the Denver Contract Detention Facility,’’ and American Civil Liberties Union Colorado report entitled, ‘‘Cashing in on Cruelty’’; Submitted by the Honorable Joe Neguse ................. 222 Medium article entitled, ‘‘Between White Nationalism and Sheriff Chuck Jenkins’’; Submitted by the Honorable Sheila Jackson Lee ............................. 239 APPENDIX Statement of the Honorable Sheila Jackson Lee .................................................. 250 Washington Post article entitled, ‘‘The other problem with ICE detention: Solitary confinement’’; Submitted by the Honorable Zoe Lofgren .................... 260 VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:34 Sep 14, 2020 Jkt 038409 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 E:\HR\OC\A409.XXX A409 ctelli on DSK11ZRN23PROD with HEARING THE EXPANSION AND TROUBLING USE OF ICE DETENTION THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2019 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SUBCOMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION AND CITIZENSHIP COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY Washington, DC. The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 10:31 a.m., in Room 2141, Rayburn Office Building, Hon. Zoe Lofgren [chairman of the subcommittee] presiding. Present: Representatives Lofgren, Nadler, Jayapal, Correa, Gar- cia, Neguse, Mucarsel-Powell, Jackson Lee, Scanlon, Buck, Collins, Biggs, McClintock, Lesko, Armstrong, and Steube. Staff present: Joshua Breisblatt, Counsel; Rachel Calanni, Legis- lative Aide/Professional Staff Member; Andrea Loving, Minority Chief Counsel, Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship; and Andrea Woodard, Minority Professional Staff Member. Ms. LOFGREN [presiding]. All of our witnesses are seated now. We welcome you, and the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citi- zenship will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the subcommittee at any time. We welcome everyone to this morning’s hearing on the Expan- sion and Troubling Use of ICE Detention. The Trump Administra- tion is detaining over 50,000 people daily, a 50 percent higher rate than the previous Administration. With the lack of enforcement priorities in this Administration, we have