A 56-year-old lawful permanent US resident died in ICE custody at a for-profit Texas detention center. His family says he was denied care for diabetes and high blood pressure.
When will the terror end?
ICE agents in Spokane, Washington, were filmed viciously attacking an old man, José Luis Arias, while his family watched in horror. The goon squad slammed him to the ground and kneed him in the back while a woman begs them to not hurt him and as his autistic grandson looked on.
Arias, of course, has no criminal record and a pending, legitimate immigration case.
There is no possible excuse for why this kind of shocking violence needed to be used against an old man – except that Trump’s ICE thugs are sadistic thugs who revel in their ability to inflict pain on others and get away with it.
Unmarked vehicles come out of nowhere and masked agents with no visible identification grab people off the street and take them to concentration camps called detention centers. Does this sound like the old Soviet Secret Police, or the Nazi Gestapo?
This is happening across the United States. If you believe that this is all about illegal migrants you are sadly mistaken. Many legal citizens, as well as students, visitors, green card holders, anti-ice protestors, as well as people with anti-Trump administration views, are being detained, raped, and even Murdered by these poorly trained thugs.
I am reposting this article about the inhumane conditions within an ICE Detention Facility in El Paso TX.
ICE guards are betting on which detainee will kill themselves next. The AP just exposed the savage conditions of a detention camp in El Paso.
The Associated Press got inside Camp East Montana. What they found should be on the front page of every newspaper in this country until it closes.
About 3,000 people packed in per day. Loud, unsanitary quarters crawling with insects. Food so scarce that detainees steal from each other just to eat. Disease spreading through filthy rooms, showers, and restrooms that go uncleaned. People losing weight. People unable to see a doctor. People losing their minds.
Staff made nearly one 911 call per day in the camp's first five months. One call captures a man sobbing after being assaulted by another detainee. Another has a doctor describing a man banging his head against a wall while expressing suicidal thoughts.
A nurse calls about a pregnant woman in severe pain with coronavirus. Detainees suffering seizures, some resulting in serious head trauma. Ages ranged from a 19-year-old who fell from a bunk to a 79-year-old who couldn't breathe.
And then there's the detail that should haunt this administration for the rest of its existence.
Owen Ramsingh, a former property manager from Columbia, Missouri, who spent weeks in the camp before being deported to the Netherlands, told the AP he overheard a security guard talking about a betting pool among the staff. They were wagering on which detainee would be next to die by suicide. The guard said he had put $500 in. The total pot rode on the outcome.
Ramsingh said the talk was particularly devastating because he had contemplated suicide himself.
Guards are gambling on the deaths of people in their custody. People who are hungry. People who are sick. People who are begging for help through 911 calls that come in every single day. And the staff turned it into a game.
This is not some rogue facility. This is the system working exactly as this administration designed it. Overcrowded by policy. Underfed by neglect. Understaffed by choice. They built a place where human beings deteriorate and then the people paid to watch over them place bets on who breaks first.
The AP has the data. The recordings. The interviews. The court filings. This is documented. This is real. This is happening right now in El Paso, Texas, in the United States of America.
ICE has detained more than 6,200 children since Trump took office, at least 500 of them three years old or younger, and the average stay keeps growing.
Mothers describe worms and mold in the food, metal bunks in rooms shared with a dozen strangers, kids constantly sick, some cutting themselves or talking about suicide. Two measles cases turned up inside. DHS says detainees are "being provided with proper medical care" and three meals a day evaluated by dieticians.
The country's largest family detention center sits in Dilley, Texas, 72 miles south of San Antonio, run by the private prison company CoreCivic. It holds up to 2,400 parents and children. ICE does not allow journalists inside.
A Venezuelan mother, Maria Betania, was arrested with her two kids while they were walking to the school bus stop. They spent 17 days in Dilley before a federal judge ordered them released.
A pastor in San Antonio who meets detainees' families every week says roughly one in four families in her congregation has had someone arrested and deported.
Around 3,500 people have cycled through Dilley since it reopened, more than half of them minors. That is more people than live in the town of Dilley itself.
A 1997 court settlement limits detention of children to about 20 days. At least 60 kids have been held there for 100 days or longer, among them a 16-year-old Los Angeles student who had planned to try out for varsity tennis and has now spent 123 days locked up after Marco Rubio ordered his family's green cards revoked.
Ariana Velasquez, 14, held with her mother for about 45 days, wrote: "Since I got to this Center all you will feel is sadness and mostly depression."
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