Oct 3 | Immigrant detention deaths surge, with overcrowding, missing detainees, and unsafe conditions worsening nationwide. Experts from #DetentionKills, Human Rights First, and AILA join ACoM to expose this growing humanitarian crisis.
Tae Heung Kim, a doctoral student who has lived legally in the US for over 35 years, has been held in ICE custody for almost 2 weeks. Customs and Border Protection has released no information about why the researcher has been detained for a prolonged period.
Taehung Kim immigrated to the U.S. with his family at age 5 and is currently a Ph.D. student at Texas A&M University, where he is researching treatments for Lyme disease.
Colleagues of Salvadoran journalist Mario Guevara went to visit him at the ICE detention center in Folkston, Georgia. Guevara was arrested last month while covering ICE protests in Atlanta.