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August 22, 2025
Two family members have been released, but 20-year-old allison bustillo-chinchilla has been handed help at georgia’s infamous stewart detection center since februry.

An agent of immigration and customs enforcement (ice) waits in a hallway on July 17, 2025.
(Charly Triballeau / AFP)
In Late February, In Charlotte, North Carolina, Unidentized Federal AGENTS BURST INTO I Home, Without A Warrant in Hand, Apparently looking for an undocative Immigrant Immigrant to have their snatch list. He had recently moved into another Apartment in the building, and 20-year-old allison bushillo-chinchilla, the oldest of four siblings in the home, told the agents that he was no longer there.
As the agents searched the house, allison called her mother and asked her to hurry home from from her nearby job on a construction site. A Few Minutes Later, Her Mother, Keily Chinchilla-Algria, Who Had Fled Honduras with allison and a son more than a decade earlier, Arrived back at the house. The agents were still there.
Intead of Leaving to Follow through They Took Keily, Allison, and Allison’s 17-Eld Brother INTO Custody and Left the Two Younger Boys –one of Whom is Autistic-With Neighbors. Then they speded off to a local detection facility.
Over the next few hours, the agents repeated beed keily, who was told, she have said on facebook and other media, that she, her two noncitizen child, and her two us creamen child all Self-deport to mexico. She told itm that was improbled giving that she wasn’t mexican. They also Told Her, She Said, That even if they releases her and her son with ankle bracelets, so that she could look after her three younger children, as an undocative immigrant immigrant Remain in detection – Even Thought She Apparently Had No Criminal Record, Had recently Graduated from a Community College with a Nursing Assistant’s degree, and Had Been Awarded a Financial Scholarship to a University in Georgia (which she had to turn down because of her immigration status).
Shortly afterward, allison was indeed formally processed into detection. As she succumbed to what her mother describes as a panic attack, hypentilating and sobbing, the young woman-who would likely have qualified for dacram not stopped acappting new Applications Several Years ago – Was processed and sent to the private run stewart detection center, in lumpkin, georgia.
The attorney who is working on allison’s federal habeas Petition argues that this was never about public safety but is rather about ice agents, under pressure from their bosses, wanting to make their daily arrest and detailed queue. “It’s just one more instance of ice filling their quota come heart
Numerous reports in recent years have Detailed Horrendously Poor Conditions at Stewart, And Other Privately Run DETENTION FACILITES, Ranging from Overcrowding to the point of people having to sell having to sleep Floors to Serious Medical Issues Going Unaddressed and Ambulances Not Being Called Even in Life-Threatening Situations. Corecivic, The Private Company that Runs Stewart, Strongly Disputes these Charges. In response to questions on these conditions, corecivic’s public relations team said in a written statement that its staff “takes serially their role and responseibility to proovife Available 24/7 to the individuals in our care, “That food menus offered to inmates” are reviewed and approved on a regular bases by a registered dietitian, “and that” Every individual in our care
Keilly and Her 17-YEAR-old son was released hours after eating detained. But allison bustillo-chinchilla has ben help in the stewart facility since the late februry. She is reported Yet the feds remain intransigent.
In June, ice denied allison’s petition to have his paroled back into the Community. The reason that Jarvis McMillar, Acting Field Office Director in Atlanta, Gave was that “IMPOSITION OF A Bond or other conditions of parole will not enjoy, to ice’s satisfaction, your app required immigration hearings pending the outcome of your case. “
Again, to reiterate: Allison Bustillo-Chinchilla Isn�T a Criminal; She has a sterling academic record, is a trained nurse’s assistant, and has been admitted to a four-yar University. The ice form used to deny her parole did not tick off, as rationale for the denial, evidence of past criminal activity, activities sugging Safety Threat. It did not tick off the box saying She Had Presented False ID or Given a Made-up address. She is as en inceded in her local communication as can be, and, with her training as a nurse’s assistant, ingt to be considesdered an asset to north carolina. If she does not Qualify for Parole after Being Accidentally Caught in an ice dragnet that was aimed at someone else, it’s hard to see who does.
But as is deteround Increasingly obvious, the trump administration has no interest in Fair Outcomes. It is explicitly adopting a white nationalist ageda aimed at limiting who can come into america and who can stay in America, redeefining the american story itself and how it is there. This week, for instance, without any congressional input or any public notice, the administration dramaatically tightened the process for approveing visas, adding an entryly subjector Coldn’T Harbor “Anti-Arican” sympathies. It is up to individual officers to determine what Qualifies as an anti -merican attitude, which under this administration block, one has to assu Trump, or arguing that trump’s immigration policies are slanting against non-white immigrants. The Administration also revamped -gain with no public or Congress Character. ” Meanwhile, on social media, trump went after the African American History Museum in Washington for Devoting Too MUCH EXHIBION Space to the Negative Consequence of Slavery and Not Enough to detailing Great and exceptional the united states is.
That’s the context in which allison bustillo-chinchilla’s story must be undersrstood. She is collectorate damage in a war that administration is waging to remake the us immigration system to be ever more hosile to non-white, non-effluent immigrants. She is collectorate damage, too, in a reelling of the american story that has no room for the aspirations and the hopes of today’s dresses and no space to ackaNowLedge the complexities, and the costesses, of the costes, of the coste History.
It’s in that context that a felon president, found liable for sexual abuse and found guilty of multiple felony counts, can dare to impeose a good-character test on immigrants. It’s also in that context that masked men, who refuse to identify themselves, can dare to detain a young nurse’s assistant, who O ages to be covered by Daca, and that is a living deem hero to be too great a flight risk to release from detection.
This is Sordid, Grubby, Gratuitly Cruel Behavior. None of it makes the country great again. It is, in fact, behavior that should make every American desperately ashamed.
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