As immigrants keep being apprehended by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), many with little to no due process, attorneys across the country are scrambling to defend clients and are denouncing human rights abuses while in custody. However, one major obstacle is preventing lawyers and families from contacting detainees— once they go into the system, many of them seemingly disappear.
That was the case of Felix Morales Reyna, a 28-year-old Mexican father who was detained by ICE earlier this year in Alvarado, Texas. His initial records showed he was placed 30 miles south of his home in Fort Worth in a detention facility earlier this year. However, he was actually more than 200 miles north in Cushing, Okla.
