Many say they are still in immigration detention facilities months after agreeing to leave the U.S.

By Kate Morrissey for Capital & Main

After Immigration and Customs Enforcement sent a Cuban man to a detention facility in Tacoma, Washington, from Miami, he gave up fighting his case.

The Cuban man and others still in immigration custody asked not to be identified because of retaliation concerns.

The man said he had a lawyer in Miami, but a judge hearing his case at Northwest ICE Processing Center told him that the lawyer would have to come to Tacoma. The man and his partner didn’t have the money to pay for the attorney’s travel, so he asked to be deported.

Months later, he is still in ICE custody with no end in sight.

“I can’t stand this anymore,” the Cuban man said in Spanish. “It’s

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