Biography
Joseph Thompson, a Jamaican green-card holder, father and chef raised in New Jersey and New York, spent two years in mandatory ICE detention after entering immigration custody in 2018.
Joseph Thompson, a Jamaican green-card holder, father and chef raised in New Jersey and New York, spent two years in mandatory ICE detention after entering immigration custody in 2018.
He described detention at Alamance County Detention Center in North Carolina and Irwin County in Georgia, interrupted removal while an appeal was pending, and retaliation for speaking about medical care. The reported two years are recorded as 24 months, not exact days.
Source: Immigrant Defense Project / Center for Constitutional Rights, Cruel by Design, February 2022, PDF pages 7, 24, 25, 32, 34, 37. This historical source does not establish present custody status.
Portrait: original illustration published in Cruel by Design, PDF page 7. Report design credited to Luis Mallo & Vlad Archin; the individual portrait artist is not separately credited. This is an illustration, not an unaltered photograph.
