Complaints Allege Detention Abuse.

• Date: 01 February 2021
• Author: Goodman, James

C.A., THE INITIALS OF an asylum seeker from the African nation of Cameroon, came to the United States, in search of safe haven. Instead, since he arrived at a port of entry on the Southern border in November 2019, he has only experienced detention.

"I never thought an immigrant could be kept in jail," said C.A. in a recent telephone interview with The Progressive from the Adams County Correctional Center in Natchez, Mississippi.

C.A., like the seven other Cameroonians in a complaint filed this past October by immigrant rights groups with the Department of Homeland Security...