“The overcrowding, combined with negligence and malevolence, has led to inevitable abuses that are too large to ignore or deny.
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In one case reported to the senator’s office, a woman in ICE custody “was pregnant and bled for days before facility staff would take her to a hospital. Once she was there, she was reportedly left in a room, alone, to miscarry without water or medical assistance, for over 24 hours.”
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“We had to bend over and eat off the chairs with our mouths, like dogs,” Harpinder Chauhan, a British entrepreneur who was detained by ICE this spring, told the researchers.
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“There was a dude, he passed out. He was crying for his medicine for like two or three days,” A.S. says. “They didn’t give him his medicine until he finally passed out, right before they were gonna put him on the plane.”
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These sorts of abuses aren’t exclusive to the Trump administration; they’re a feature of mass detention. During the Biden administration, Reason obtained whistleblower audio recordings from a tent camp for migrant youths inside the Fort Bliss Army base in Texas. In the recordings, officials frankly discussed filthy conditions, lack of medical care, and inappropriate staff contact with minors.
The Trump administration’s reaction, though, has not been to slow down its deportation efforts, but to supercharge them. The administration awarded a $238 million contract in July to build and operate the largest immigrant detention center in the country at Fort Bliss.”
https://reason.com/2025/08/15/the-human-rights-crisis-in-ice-detention-centers