ICE shut down a real hotline for detained immigrants run by the California group Freedom for Immigrants less than two weeks after it was prominently featured on 'Orange is the New Black.'
Freedom for Immigrants, which runs visitation programs in detention centers across the country, responded Thursday with a cease-and-desist letter charging that the termination is a violation of free speech and amounts to retaliation by the government in an attempt to silence one of its prominent critics. Six actors from “Orange Is the New Black” and more than 100 organizations signed a letter to acting ICE Director Matthew Albence demanding that the line be restored.
to legal service providers on the ICE-approved list “for the purpose of obtaining initial legal representation.”“Pro bono organizations found to be violating these rules may be removed from the platform,” he said. In response, Rep. Juan Vargas and 14 other members of Congress sent ICE’s deputy director a letter requesting more information and calling the restriction troubling.
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