From vomiting blood to dropping a being pregnant, immigrants being held in detention facilities throughout america are reporting traumatic situations.
A monthslong investigation led by Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff of Georgia discovered “510 credible reports of human rights abuses.”
In line with the report, a younger lady held in custody along with her undocumented mom was hospitalized a number of instances. And at one level, the lady, who’s a U.S. citizen, was allegedly vomiting blood.
“Just give the girl a cracker,” the Customs and Border Patrol agent reportedly mentioned to the mom begging for care.
A jail guard transfers Venezuelan immigrants from america to El Salvador’s notoriously violent CECOT jail.
In one other case, males being held in a Miami facility had been shot at with “what appeared to be pellets or rubber bullets” once they flooded a rest room to protest being denied meals, water, and medical consideration.
Claims like these fill the pages of Ossoff’s report, together with pregnant girls being compelled to sleep on the ground due to overcrowding.
“She was left in a room, alone, to miscarry without water or medical assistance for over 24 hours,” the report mentioned of 1 girl.
Every day Kos contacted ICE officers for remark relating to Ossoff’s report. Whereas they acknowledged our request, we didn’t obtain a response to the claims.
President Donald Trump has pushed for mass deportations and immigrant raids because the begin of his second time period, and whereas his administration has partnered with detention middle giants equivalent to Geo Group and CoreCivic in an try and shortly construct extra detention services, the efforts can solely go to date.
And with Trump’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill” bolstering a shiny new funds for ICE, $45 billion was additionally allotted towards constructing much more services.
Equally, immigrants deported to prisons overseas are sharing their very own abusive conditions, together with a whole lot of Venezuelan males who had been deported to El Salvador’s CECOT jail.
However regardless of the stories, the Trump administration maintains that the one individuals being deported are harmful criminals—and due to this fact are deserving of those abuses.
