ICE’s War on Disability

Aug 2, 2025 | ICE took away his phone so he couldn’t communicate. ‘I can’t sign with my hands cuffed. They took my power,’ Javier Diaz Santana told the Los Angeles Times. Even as a DACA recipient, Diaz wasn’t safe from being detained or deported, and his case highlights how unprepared — and unfair — ICE is when it comes to treating people with disabilities: There seems to be no limit to the cruelty they’re willing to inflict.