Federal Court Grants Class-Action Status to Unrepresented Immigration Detainees With Mental Disabilities (aclu)
**Ruling Will Help Ensure Due Process for Detainees Unable to Represent
Themselves**
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: (212) 549-2666; media@aclu.org
LOS ANGELES – A federal court in California has granted class-action status to
a group of unrepresented immigration detainees with mental disabilities, an
important step in helping ensure they get access to legal counsel.
The ruling comes in response to a lawsuit filed last year on behalf of a group
of detainees, including Jose Antonio Franco Gonzales, a Mexican immigrant with
moderate mental retardation who was detained in federal immigration facilities
for over four years without a hearing. Judge Dolly Gee of the U.S. District
Court for the Central District of California found that the problems
identified in the lawsuit are systemic, and there is no mechanism for
evaluating whether immigration detainees with mental disabilities are able to
represent themselves.
Ahilan Arulanantham, deputy legal director of the ACLU of Southern California,
said: “The sad fact is that the government refuses to systematically track the
many detainees with mental disabilities who are lost in immigration detention
centers, unable to represent themselves or even to understand why they’re
there. Today’s ruling will allow us to shed light on this most vulnerable
population within …
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