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The Guardian - US
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Timothy Pratt

Her husband is a double amputee in ICE prison. She confronted Kristi Noem over its cruel conditions: ‘I have a fire inside’

Collage of a woman, her family, and her partner at different times
Mildred Danis-Taylor and her five children visiting Rodney Taylor at Stewart detention center, January 2025; Rodney and Mildred celebrating her 39th birthday, January 2024; the first ‘Free Rodney Taylor’ rally at Atlanta’s ICE field office in June 2024. Photograph: Courtesy Mildred Danis-Taylor

Shortly after 1pm on 4 March, in a crowded hearing room on Capitol Hill, Mildred Danis-Taylor and two of her daughters stood up from their seats so that Kristi Noem could see them.

As they looked across the chamber at the homeland security secretary, the Georgia representative Lucy McBath took the mic to describe the neglectful and dangerous conditions Danis-Taylor’s husband said he had experienced during 14 months of being locked up at ICE’s Stewart detention center in south Georgia.

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