U.S. immigrant justice advocates are denouncing brutal and dangerous conditions faced by Haitian asylum seekers currently imprisoned at the Torrance County Detention Facility in Estancia, New Mexico. 

Albuquerque, November 30 (RHC)-- U.S. immigrant justice advocates are denouncing brutal and dangerous conditions faced by Haitian asylum seekers currently imprisoned at the Torrance County Detention Facility in Estancia, New Mexico. 

At least 50 asylum seekers who were previously sheltering under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas were taken to Torrance shortly after Border Patrol violently apprehended thousands of asylum seekers in September.  Most have been deported by the Joe Biden administration. 

Advocates are demanding Immigration and Customs Enforcement allow pro-bono attorneys provide the Haitian asylum seekers with in-person legal consultations at Torrance; that information about legal services be posted at the facility in Haitian Creole; and that ICE halt deportations and asylum seekers are released while their cases are resolved. 

The asylum seekers have also detailed mistreatment and medical neglect at Torrance, which is operated by the private prison corporation CoreCivic.