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Jayapal seeks ICE review for detained amputee
He remains detained at the Lumpkin facility amid broader concerns about disability support in immigration detention settings.
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Anushka Pathak - Wed, 18, Feb 2026
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Rep. Pramila Jayapal / Courtesy: X/@RepJayapal
Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal is leading 20 members of Congress in urging Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to review the detention of Georgia-based Rodney Taylor.
Taylor, a double amputee, has been held for more than a year at a for-profit ICE facility in Lumpkin, Georgia. In a letter to ICE, the lawmakers urged the agency to fully consider Taylor’s request for release, citing serious concerns about his medical condition and treatment in custody.
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“Mr. Taylor is a double amputee with only one functional hand who has been detained for over a year in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for-profit detention facility,” they wrote. They added that he “has experienced extreme hardship in detention, and his health is continuing to deteriorate.”
The letter states that since entering detention, Taylor has faced repeated complications with his prosthetic legs and has been denied medical care on multiple occasions. According to the lawmakers, the facility has failed to provide adequate accommodations for his disability, forcing him to crawl on his hands and amputation sites to access showers and meals.
“We are deeply concerned about Mr. Taylor’s treatment in detention, including the denial of medical care and now the denial of accommodations to ensure he is fed,” the members wrote. They urged ICE to “immediately give full and fair consideration to his request to be released from detention” and to weigh his assertion that he is “neither a flight risk nor a danger to the community.”
Taylor reportedly suffers from bone spurs and high blood pressure, conditions that lawmakers said could become life-threatening without appropriate care.
The letter was signed by Representatives Yassamin Ansari, Becca Balint, Sanford D. Bishop Jr., Judy Chu, Yvette D. Clarke, Maxine Dexter, Veronica Escobar, Jesús G. García, Sylvia R. Garcia, Adelita Grijalva, Henry C. Johnson Jr., Robin L. Kelly, Ro Khanna, Lucy McBath, James P. McGovern, Deborah K. Ross, Melanie Stansbury, Rashida Tlaib, Paul D. Tonko, and Nikema Williams.
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