Russian asylum seeker Maksim Borisov, 22, said he was thrown into solitary confinement for refusing to “voluntarily” agree to return to Russia, where he’d fled persecution as a gay man.
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Afghani asylum seeker Samir Aghar, 19, on a video call from Eloy Detention Center, where he's been held for more than a year. ICE arrested Aghar on his 18th birthday, two years after he arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border as an unaccompanied minor.
Emily Bregel, Arizona Daily Star
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Cuban asylum seeker Alexander Hernandez, pictured here at Eloy Detention Center, on an April video call with the Arizona Daily Star, said he's been suffering from excruciating back pain for eight months. On April 25, he went to Eloy's infirmary and said he wouldn't leave until he got medical help. Instead, he was put into solitary confinement, he told the Star in written messages. Hernandez attempted suicide in his solitary cell two days later.
Emily Bregel, Arizona Daily Star
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ICE tracks how many immigrants it sends to solitary confinement each month, but the data is messy and incomplete, a Lee Enterprises analysis found.
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Margo Schlanger, a University of Michigan law professor and expert on civil rights, said detainees have a right to contest deportation. “If they’re trying to coerce (a detainee) to give up that due process right, then that violates due process.”
University of Michigan
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Syrian asylum seeker Kamel Maklad, who has no criminal record, spent a cumulative five months in solitary confinement at Eloy Detention Center. After winning "withholding of removal" to his home country, where an immigration judge agreed he'd face threats to his life, ICE spent more than a year trying, and failing, to find a third country to deport him to. After two years and four months at Eloy, Maklad was released in December 2025 after a successful habeas corpus petition challenging the legality of his continued detention.
Emily Bregel, Arizona Daily Star
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After spending a cumulative four months in solitary confinement during his eight months at Eloy, Cuban asylum seeker Jordano Casanova accepted a voluntary departure to Mexico in February. "I don't want to suffer here anymore," he wrote to the Star from Eloy Detention Center. Casanova has no criminal record except for a traffic citation for driving without a valid license. He left behind a wife and three young children in Goodyear, Arizona.
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Contact reporter Emily Hamer at emily.hamer@lee.net or 262-844-4151.
Contact reporter Emily Bregel at ebregel@tucson.com . On X, formerly Twitter: @EmilyBregel
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