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The Terror of Being Transported from Burlington to Hanscom
Three times a week, detainees from Massachusetts and other New England states are shackled, driven to Hanscom Field in Bedford, and loaded on prison transports to be flown to ICE’s Alexandria prison complex in Louisiana. Our observers document the flights and count the number of detainees, but we do not know their stories. Most detainees cannot speak freely and live in fear of retaliation by ICE. So it is rare to get a publicly documented story of what actually happens when people are taken from Burlington to Hanscom, forcibly removed from Massachusetts, away from their lawyers and families.
This is the sworn testimony of Sonia..
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