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  Last week I paid a visit to the ICE Field Office in Burlington, MA to conduct some real-time oversight. This ‘Field Office’ is detaining people for  days  at a time in an office building designed to process people for no more than a matter of  hours. My colleagues and I have been demanding answers and investigation into this facility for nearly a year with no sufficient answers — so it came time to take matters into my own hands. What I observed was inhumane and completely inadequate to house people overnight. I left with my position unchanged: We need to defund and abolish ICE. A number of my constituents, like Rümeysa Öztürk, have been unlawfully processed and detained in facilities like these. Torn from their families and forced to endure cruel conditions – treated less than human at the rogue, lawless hands of ICE agents. People have died in facilities like these. We’ve been able to free a lot of people and reunite them with their families, but invisible wounds...

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