ICE Officials Accused of Covering Up Immigrant Deaths in Detention

The Obama administration has promised to overhaul immigration detention. But a scathing report in the New York Times last weekend reveals that federal officials used their role as overseers to prevent media from reporting deaths and abuses inside the nation’s immigration prisons. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, now admits 107 immigrants died in ICE custody since October 2003, but for years the deaths went uncounted in the public record. Democracy Now! speaks to Sunita Patel of the Center for Constitutional Rights and Edwidge Danticat, a Haitian-American journalist whose uncle died in the custody of the Department of Homeland Security.