As a transgender woman, Channel Ferro Badell has spent her life fleeing discrimination, trafficking and abuse — first in Uruguay, where she was born, then in Argentina, where she is a citizen. But few experiences compare to what she suffered during her time in ICE custody, she told me. “In six months I was taken to six facilities,” she wrote in Spanish in messages to The Marshall Project. “In every one, the situation is the same: Violence is tolerated within ICE.”
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