A group of Black immigrant advocates has filed a civil rights complaint to the Department of Homeland Security alleging Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents placed African asylum seekers in a medical constraint to torture them.
According to the complaint, ICE agents used a full-body restraint called the WRAP on five Cameroonian immigrants during mass deportations back to the African country in 2020.
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The group of advocates claims it led to a medical complication for one of the deportees after the men remained bound for several hours.
The complaint was filed by African Communities Together, the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, the Cameroon Advocacy Network, Haitian Bridge Alliance, the UndocuBlack Network, Texas A&M University School of Law Immigrant Rights Clinic and Witness at the Border.
“Black people in America, including Black immigrants, are familiar with the U.S. government’s unrepentant misuse of medical devices and experimentation on Black bodies,” UndocuBlack Network Interim Policy and Advocacy Director Breanne Palmer said.
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