After 23 Months in ICE Custody, Sudanese Man Sues for Release From Iowa Jail

Mutasim Ibrahim Abdoulrahman Nour, a citizen of Sudan, has been held in ICE custody for nearly two years — most recently at the Muscatine County Jail in Iowa — without being deported or released. After his attorneys filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, a federal judge ordered the government to explain why it has jailed him for almost 23 months. The case spotlights prolonged, open-ended immigration detention in local jails that contract with ICE.