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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWarden who gunned down 2 migrants was the warden of ICE's West Texas Detention Facility
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
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Sep 29, 2022
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Oh my GOD. The warden who gunned down two migrants (and maybe a third) was the warden of ICEs West Texas Detention Facility.
I was there in 2018 when it was housing parents separated from their kids. It is a bleak, awful, placewhere the water is foul and the treatment fouler.
Ryan Devereaux
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NEW: Texas jail warden charged with killing migrant was previously accused of serious abuses
The warden who was arrested yesterday and the jail he ran have a long dark history read more here https://interc.pt/3dRdI8k
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Warden Sheppard, who was just arrested for murdering and migrant and shooting at least one other, had a reputation as a harsh and racist warden at ICE's West Texas Detention Facility, a jail owned by the county and run by private prison company LaSalle.
Ryan Devereaux
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These were some of the words attributed to Sheppard by African immigrants in his custody.
Shut your black ass up. You dont deserve nothing. You belong at the back of that cage
Boy, Im going to show you. Youre my bitch.
now you belong to me, boy
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6:54 PM · Sep 29, 2022
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
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Sep 29, 2022
@ReichlinMelnick
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Oh my GOD. The warden who gunned down two migrants (and maybe a third) was the warden of ICEs West Texas Detention Facility.
I was there in 2018 when it was housing parents separated from their kids. It is a bleak, awful, placewhere the water is foul and the treatment fouler.
Ryan Devereaux
@rdevro
Replying to @rdevro
NEW: Texas jail warden charged with killing migrant was previously accused of serious abuses
The warden who was arrested yesterday and the jail he ran have a long dark history read more here https://interc.pt/3dRdI8k
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
@ReichlinMelnick
·
Follow
Warden Sheppard, who was just arrested for murdering and migrant and shooting at least one other, had a reputation as a harsh and racist warden at ICE's West Texas Detention Facility, a jail owned by the county and run by private prison company LaSalle.
Ryan Devereaux
@rdevro
Replying to @rdevro
These were some of the words attributed to Sheppard by African immigrants in his custody.
Shut your black ass up. You dont deserve nothing. You belong at the back of that cage
Boy, Im going to show you. Youre my bitch.
now you belong to me, boy
Image
6:54 PM · Sep 29, 2022
https://theintercept.com/2022/09/29/ice-mike-sheppard-abuses/
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THE WARDEN OF one of the nations most notorious immigration detention facilities was arrested this week after allegedly killing one migrant and wounding another in the desert of rural West Texas.
Michael Sheppard who until this week oversaw U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcements West Texas Detention Center in Sierra Blanca, Texas and his twin brother, Mark, were arrested late Wednesday night, the New York Times reported.
According to affidavits filed Thursday, at least four people were walking along a roadway deep in the desert when the 60-year-old Sheppard brothers approached in a pickup truck around 7 p.m. on Tuesday.
The group of migrants took cover near a water tank. According to the surviving witnesses, the men in the vehicle shouted profanities at them and told them to come out in Spanish. They revved their engine. The driver leaned across the hood and fired at least two shots. One man was struck in the head and killed. A woman was shot in the gut but survived.
In interviews with authorities, the Sheppards said they were simply out hunting at first claiming that they were looking for grouse, and later that they were after javelina. They said they made no effort to determine what they had shot and left the scene for a county board meeting. The pair were arrested the following night and charged with manslaughter.
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Warden who gunned down 2 migrants was the warden of ICE's West Texas Detention Facility (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Sep 2022
OP
CBP, Border Patrol, ICE. . .all there to enforce racism, xenophobia, and nativist in the most
AZLD4Candidate
Sep 2022
#2
MerryBlooms
(11,761 posts)1. I hope the charges are upgraded to murder and hate enhancement.
The so-called warden, should have been charged ages ago, and not on the streets. Time for a thorough investigation into All law enforcement entities, including DA office.
AZLD4Candidate
(5,671 posts)2. CBP, Border Patrol, ICE. . .all there to enforce racism, xenophobia, and nativist in the most
cold, heartless, brutal, and terrible ways. Ask my wife about her treatment by CBP.
All three need a 50 year hiring freeze and to have the top kicked off the can to expose all the rats and vermin that infect it.
Phoenix61
(17,000 posts)5. Fire them all and start over. Close all privately owned, run,
managed, prisons, detention facilities etc.
Dorian Gray
(13,488 posts)3. Reading that
chilled me to the bone.
What depraved and inhuman monsters the Sheppard Brothers are. I hope they spend the rest of their lives in abject misery!
Dorian Gray
(13,488 posts)4. Double post. Sorry
self delete
Phoenix61
(17,000 posts)6. Anybody think that's the first time they've done that? nt
MagickMuffin
(15,933 posts)7. They need to upgrade the charges to murder
Evil dwells in the heartless minds of white supremacist.