Center’s Senior Clinician, Alison Beckman, stopped by KARE 11 on Sunday to share more about the impact of ICE operations on the mental health of the CTV clients.

MINNEAPOLIS — Center for Victims of Torture (CTV) says intensified immigration enforcement and the deadly ICE shooting in Minneapolis have an adverse psychological impact on people who have survived torture in their home countries. 

Alison Beckman, a Senior Clinician for External Relations at the CTV, works with refugees and asylum seekers pursuing a safe haven in the United States. 

She stopped by KARE 11 on Sunday to share more about the impact of ICE operations on CTV’s clients. 

“For 40 years, they have been describing to CVT counselors the kinds of dangerous authoritarian regimes they fled,” says Beckman. “For many, seeing the dramatic intensification of immigration enforcement in Minneapolis has been terrifying.”

Beckman says she has observed a range of psychological impacts, including isolation and suicidal ideation. 

The CTV also shared a statement, denouncing the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent on Wednesday, Jan. 7.

“This devastating loss of life would not have happened but for this unprecedented, unjustified, and overly militarized deployment across the country and now in Minneapolis,” was written in the statement. “The atmosphere this enforcement has created, which is now exacerbated by this deadly shooting, is a climate of terror.”Â