“People are dying in detention. ICE just does not care.”
MAKE 4X THE IMPACT TO STOP ATTACKS ON IMMIGRANTS » People are being tortured in immigration detention facilities — people who should never have been locked up in the first place 1 . And I have witnessed the horrors myself. Our recent report details the brutal human rights violations at “Alligator Alcatraz” and Krome Detention Center: People are being chained to the ground, denied medical care, and held in cages with fecal matter seeping from toilets into where they are sleeping. Individuals shared stories with us of guards being violent (which I also witnessed). At Alligator Alcatraz, people are being thrown into the ‘box’ , a 2x2-foot cage where people are shackled and unable to sit down or move, for hours, and without any water or protection from the sun. This is torture. It’s inhumane. It’s cruel. It’s illegal. And it must STOP. When we visited Krome, people yelled out to speak to us so we could tell the world what they’re facing inside Krome and what they fac...