Over the summer, I visited the Etowah County Detention Center in Gadsden, Alabama, where Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is holding about 140 women on illegal immigration charges. Most come from Latin America, although there are some from Viet Nam, Cambodia and the Caribbean Islands.

I was able to get into the center through the good efforts of Helen Rivas, a resident of Birmingham, Ala., who works with the immigrant community and who has Guatemalan Consular support. My interest in visiting the facility was to hear first hand how these women came to be detained and sent to this particular facility, and whether they were taken as a result of ICE workplace raids that have separated ...

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