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EL PASO, Texas (AP) The calls to 911 poured in from staff at Camp East Montana in Texas, the nations largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, at a rate of nearly one a day for five months, each its own tale of pain and despair.
A man sobs after being assaulted by another detainee. Another bangs his head against the wall after expressing suicidal thoughts. A pregnant woman complained of severe back pain and also had coronavirus.
Every day felt like a week. Every week felt like a month. Every month felt like a year, said Owen Ramsingh, a former property manager in Columbia, Missouri, who spent several weeks in the camp before his deportation in February to the Netherlands. Camp East Montana was 1,000% worse than a prison.
Fueled by billions of dollars in new funding, ICE operations across the nation have roiled communities, separated families and created a culture of fear in pursuit of President Donald Trumps vow to rid the country of unauthorized migrants.
https://apnews.com/article/suicide-ice-detention-centers-b2d1cb0e4b579e0d89caabd00aa04e34
Initech
(108,466 posts)No amount of punishment will be enough for the psychopaths who put us in this position. May they all rot in hell.
MustLoveBeagles
(15,814 posts)CrystalwolfLady
(22 posts)What did we do before? People waited at home for their hearing?!?
This is another $$ making scam and we all need to call our congressperson and demand they find out WTF is going on here!
These people did not break law!
They are not under a "warrant for arrest"!
This is illegal detainment! Why isn't anyone doing anything about this?
These poor people!
I don't understand how this administration is getting away w/ all this GD bs!?
It's sickening. Trump has made us into a 3rd world sh*thole country!
We won't even get to hold him accountable b/c he will die.
We can hold his conspirators to account tho... and that must be done!