This article was originally published by Documented , an independent, non-profit newsroom dedicated to reporting with and for immigrant communities in New York City. The original article can be accessed here .

A. Diallo crossed the U.S.-Mexico border without authorization in December 2023, with hopes of escaping the violence and injustice he experienced back home in Guinea, Conakry. He traveled from Guinea through Turkey, then through South America and Central America, and finally to the United States.

After arriving in New York, he filed for asylum within the required one-year deadline.

Months later, in March of this year during his first check-in, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) placed an ankle monitor on Diallo, his lawyer, Brian R. Duggan, told Documented.

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