A Chicago woman went to immigration court. Her case was dismissed; she and her infant were taken by federal agents who turned her over to contractor MVM. They spent five days confined at the Sonesta O'Hare hotel without communication to the outside world.

My first byline at @injusticewatch.org:

Valentina Galvis' detention at a hotel raises questions about the types of facilities being turned into de facto detention centers as the Trump administration ramps up immigration detention.

ICE contractor locked an immigrant and her baby at an O’Hare hotel for five days

Valentina Galvis' detention at a hotel raises questions about the types of facilities being turned into de facto detention centers as the Trump administration ramps up immigration detention.

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  1. Is this evidence that ICE "agents" are just contractors? I.e.,, they don't have authority to arrest people? I.e.e., that's why they keep their faces covered and don't show ID?

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  2. I don’t know about you but I’m not staying in a hotel where people are imprisoned. Time to boycott this Sonesta Hotel chain.

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  3. Those captors could have come in and raped her repeatedly and no one would know it. This is beyond sickening to me.

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