No shower for days, cameras trained on the toilet, women crammed into cells 'like sardines,' among the allegations.

Immigrant women say they were held “like animals” in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention and subjected to conditions so extreme they feared for their lives.

Chained for hours on a prison bus without access to food, water or a toilet. Told by guards to urinate on the floor. Held “like sardines in a jar,” as many as 27 women in a small holding cell. Sleeping on a concrete floor. Getting one three-minute shower over three or four days in custody.

“We smelled worse than animals,” one detainee said. “More girls were coming every day. We were screaming, begging them, ‘You can’t let them come.’ They didn’t have space.”

The allegations come after two men at Krome died in custody on Jan. 23 and Feb. 20.

The government’s own investigators have repeatedly found serious problems in immigration detention centers around the country. The problems have persisted through Democrat and Republican administrations and range from fatal medical neglect to improper use of force.

  • Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org
    6·
    17 hours ago

    I knew they would be killing people. I just didn’t expect it to be this fast. It sucks that there’s realistically not much that I can physically do other than spread the word that shit like this is happening and boycotting American products. It doesn’t feel like it’s enough

  • Glide
    23·
    3 days ago

    Chuds: “people are exaggerating when they compare Trump to Hitler.”

    ICE:

  • Cruxifux@feddit.nl
    20·
    3 days ago

    This is the beginning stages of actual concentration camps. Like Nazi style concentration camps. These are the acts of a deeply evil country.

    • jonne@infosec.pub
      9·
      2 days ago

      That’s been how ICE had been doing things for decades. Only they’re now doing it to white people too, and they always take it a bit further during Republican administrations.