Co-Counsel Co-Founder Rebecca Press is quoted in the Documented NY article ICE Kept Immigrants Illegally Detained for Months as It Searched for Countries to Deport Them To, Judges Rule (May 26, 2026).
“There were always certain groups of people — people with very serious criminal records — who even past administrations would have tried to send to another country,” said Rebecca Press, an attorney at the nonprofit legal organization Co-Counsel NYC.
Their horrific past experience “adds a whole level of trauma,” Press said. “It can put them right back in that place.” For her client Aissatou Diallo, a 52-year-old home health aide from Corona, Queens, who’s lived in the United States for close to a quarter-century, the arrest “was terribly shocking. It really does take a long time to recover from this terrifying experience,” Press said.
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