Rep. Delia Ramirez visits Chicagoans at Kentucky ICE detention center and calls conditions 'devastating'
U.S. Rep. Delia Ramirez was among three Democratic members of Congress who visited an ICE detention center in Kentucky Monday to check on two Chicagoans who say they aren’t receiving proper medical care for diabetes, including a man who has been detained since September.
Ramirez told the Sun-Times she left “with more questions and more concerns” than when she walked in, and she called the conditions at the county jail turned detention center “devastating.” The center has capacity for 129 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees, with the rest of the facility home to the general jail population. Ramirez said the detention center was at a maximum 430 inmates and detainees on Monday.
The Illinois congresswoman joined U.S. Reps. Gwen Moore, D-Wisc. and Morgan McG…