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ICE Frees Blind Migrant Who Was Detained for Days in Isolation

Carlos Anibal Chalco Chango, 40, was released on Monday from an upstate New York jail where he had been held without his cane. It was a surprising move by an agency that rarely frees detainees.

© Todd Heisler/The New York Times

After his arrest, Carlos Anibal Chalco Chango was initially placed in a cell at 26 Federal Plaza, the ICE offices in Lower Manhattan, where he was barred from using a text-to-audio app that could help him read legal documents.
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