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Purdue Student Yeonsoo Go Released from ICE Custody; L.A. Plaintiff Details Abuse in ICE Jail

HeadlineAug 05, 2025
Image Credit: AP Photo/Olga Fedorova

A Scarsdale High School graduate was released Monday night from ICE detention. Twenty-year-old Yeonsoo Go, a Purdue University student, was arrested and taken into ICE custody after a routine visa hearing last week.

In Los Angeles, a plaintiff in the lawsuit against federal immigration arrests described horrible conditions at ICE detention facilities.

Pedro Vasquez Perdomo: “They chained us and put me in a small room with 52 other people, no bathroom, no hygiene, just filth and fear. I’m diabetic. I need proper foods and fluids to survive. But what they gave us to eat was inhumane, nothing a person should ever have to eat. My sugar levels were out of control. I developed an eye infection while detained and begged for help, but no medical attention ever came.”

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