MORY KEITA

DO NOT LET ICE DEPORT MORY KEITA Mory Keita, a Columbus resident, was detained on an ICE hold in the Butler County Jail until this week. On Tuesday, he was abruptly transferred to Louisiana and told he will be deported on December 14. While at the Butler Jail, Mr. Keita bravely spoke out against Corrections Officers' abuse against men detained for ICE. He provided key details for the legal complaint filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio by Attorneys John C. Camillus and Amy Norris. His presence is needed in the U.S. to testify in the future legal proceedings. Instead, ICE is trying to silence him by deporting him next week. Ericka Curran, Mory's immigration lawyer and an Assistant Professor at the University of Dayton School of Law, said: "Mory Keita is attempting to stay his deportation because he fears torture in his home country. His mother brought him to the U.S. when he was three years old, after fleeing their home country when his father was murdered. Mory doesn't speak his native language and has no family there. He missed his immigration court hearing in 2009 because the notice of the hearing never arrived at his home. Mory has a four year old US. citizen daughter that he would leave behind." Mr. Keita was an eyewitness to an August 2020 physical assault against Mr. Bayong Brown Bayong, a plaintiff in the recently-filed lawsuit. [CW - violence] He said: "I was able to see Bayong coming down the stairs and he was moving slowly and the officers were yelling at him. He was having a hard time moving and limping and tryi