On June 17th, Aguilar received calls from people who live in Carroll County of her father -in -law. They told her that the law enforcement authorities had run over the work car in which he drove and arrested him.
Shortly afterwards, an ICE online database confirmed that Jose Aguilar was in the care of the agency. The 53-year-old lived in the United States without permission after he had illegally entered the country six years ago, said his daughter-in-law.
According to Charles Kuck Charles Kuck in the Atlanta region, the online ICE tool is usually updated every 24 hours, whereby current information about the whereabouts of a migration background is displayed. After Friday afternoon, the ICE website was still not shown in which detention center Aguilar takes place, as the constitution of Atlanta journal was found.
Families in Florida, California, Tennessee and New Jersey have also reported difficulties to find relatives in the icial liability system, which experts describe as increasingly overwhelmed.
Cindy Aguilars Three visits to the Eisfeld office in Atlanta proved to be fruitless.
She said she also spoke to the US -Marshals Service, the local law enforcement authorities of Carroll County and the employees of the two ice -discovery centers in Georgia in the counties Stewart and Charlton. Aguilar said she had not yet received any information about the location of her father -in -law.
“Nobody has any information. Nobody can find it,” she said. “My husband was not even able to sleep. This is his father.
“We just want to know if he's in order? Do you know where is he? It is difficult. He has come illegally, I understand that, but he's still human.”
ICE official did not answer a request for a comment from the AJC.
“Aliens are detained in one of the nationwide in one of the ice facilities to secure their presence for immigration procedures or the removal of the United States,” a spokesman for the agency told NJ Spotlight News at the beginning of this year.
Anton Flores-Maisonet helps Casa Alterna, a local non-profit organization that supports immigrants who deal with deportations. In the past few months, Casa Alterna volunteers have teamed up in front of the Ice Field Office office in Atlanta, where they distribute snacks, water and information about their legal rights.
According to Flores-Maisonet, Casa Alterna workers hear more often about people who do not know where their friends or family members are recorded.
“We had three people who came here today to find out where their loved ones are arrested,” he said on a weekday. “What seems to be is that it takes longer for people to get into the system.”
In Aguilar's case, the Onlineice database “Call Field Office” states instead of showing the facility in which it is kept, as is the case with most prisoners.
“But [Cindy Aguilar] Was up here and you won't give her any information, “said Flores-Maisonet.” It's a loop. ”
ICE has strengthened the fears since Donald Trump started, with the daily arrest of the agency from 1,800 to 3,000. This has led to the national liability system overloaded. Reports of overcrowded facilities that have arisen from immigrants in the United States, including the Stewart detention center in Georgia.
Nationwide, the Federal Government is currently organizing more than 59,000 people in icy liability, an increase of around 50% since January. This exceeds the 41,500 upper limit, for which the agency is financed.
“There is a record number of people who are detained far beyond the household restrictions from IC,” said Kuck. In his view, the prisoner tracking system should “be able to handle this workload completely”, but he admitted that errors are possible.
Jose Aguilar is probably in one of the remote immigrant prisons in Georgia, said Kuck, but he could also be further away.
“We hear stories about these crazy transfers from coast to coast in the middle of the night,” said Kuck.
According to Cindy Aguilar, the other family members of her family have restricted public excursions in the past few months.
“You won't even go out on your garden. You won't let your children go to school. They have completely closed,” she said.
Since she is a US citizen, Aguilar is responsible for contacting the authorities to approach information about her father-in-law.
“My husband's whole family says:” You are an American. Why can't you find him? “, She said,” I am the one who tries to deal with it … and I can't give you any answers. ”
