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No One is Talking About Disabled People Being Mistreated in ICE Detention Facilities [1]
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Date: 2025-06-27
The Disabled Ginger writes on Substack about two disabled people currently in ICE detention that no one, least of all the media, is writing or talking about: Alma Bowman and Rodney Taylor.
Society has a history of disappearing disabled people, so perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised about the silence.
Alma Bowman is a 58 year old disabled Filipina, mother, human rights and immigrant rights advocate, and whistleblower from Macon, Georgia. Her father was an American navy veteran, and met Alma’s mother while serving abroad:
During the first Trump regime, she was detained for thirty months in ICE custody. Her family argued that she is a US citizen because of her father, but the legal battle to get her citizenship recognized is still ongoing to this day. ICE has taken Alma again. She was complying with all conditions of her original release, yet when she showed up at the ICE Atlanta Field Office for her regular check-in, she was separated from her family and thrown back into custody.
The Justice for Alma Bowen Facebook page.
Rodney Taylor is a disabled double amputee and a barber from Tucker, GA. Now days, rather than cutting hair in his shop, he is cutting hair inside an immigration detention center. Rodney’s mother brought him from Liberia to the US when he was 2 years old. Taylor is now facing deportation to Liberia — a country he has no memory of and no experience with. Rodney is suffering extreme medical neglect at an ICE detention facility in Georgia. He became engaged to fiancé Mildred Pierre just ten days before he was picked up by ICE because of a youthful indiscretion that the state of GA has PARDONED HIM FOR!
When he was detained, he was only two days away from receiving new prosthetic legs. His old ones require eight hours of charging, which the detention facility almost never provides. He’s been given shoes that don’t fit the legs and he told The Guardian that trying to walk “felt like walking on concrete on my knees.” He started struggling to get to the cafeteria for meals, but rather than help him access the prosthetics he needed, the facility offered a wheelchair without assessing whether or not he could actually push it (he can’t). He only has two fingers on his right hand, and has been experiencing pain and swelling in his thumb since being detained. As a result, he’s gone without food.
More on Rodney at 11Alive
The trump regime is evil. People with disabilities, children, queer and trans youth, women, all are at risk if we do not fight back!
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