#immigrant detention center

[plethoraworldatlas]

Citing ample evidence of human rights abuses in U.S. immigration detention centers, 200 advocacy groups on Thursday demanded that the Biden administration reverse course on a planned expansion of detention facilities and said President Joe Biden's "further entrenching" of the government's reliance on detaining migrants marks "an utter betrayal" of his campaign promises.

The president's signing of a spending bill last month provided $3.4 billion for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), clearing the way for the agency to make space to jail 41,500 immigrants per day in facilities across the country.

After Biden campaigned on ending the use of for-profit detention centers, said the groups, he took office at a time when fewer than 15,000 people were being held in immigration detention facilities—which gave him "a remarkable opportunity to wind down a wasteful and abusive system."

But after the president's 2023 and 2024 budget requests signaled an intention of reducing detention funding—with ICE itself recommending that numerous facilities be closed due to "critical staffing shortages that have led to safety risks and unsanitary living conditions"—Biden last year requested supplemental detention funding as commentators and Republicans in Congress hammered the administration for allowing so-called "chaos" at the U.S.-Mexico border.

"Your FY2025 budget request sought funding for 34,000 beds instead of the 25,000 sought in the two previous cycles," wrote the groups, including Amnesty International USA, the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC), and the Texas Civil Rights Project. "The result is unsurprising: the FY2024 spending bill you signed provides ICE $3.4 billion to jail an average of 41,500 immigrants per day, historically high funding surpassing all four years of the Trump administration."

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Biden signed the spending bill two weeks after Charles Daniel, a 61-year-old migrant from Trinidad and Tobago, died at a detention center operated by the private contractor GEO Group after being held in solitary confinement for four years. ICE has placed people in solitary confinement over 14,000 times in the last five years, according to PHR, for an average of 27 days each; U.N. experts say exceeding 15 days in solitary confinement constitutes torture.

[dykesynthezoid]

Highly suggest that ahead of Trump’s second term you check this map on freedomforimmigrants.org to see if there are any immigration detention centers in your area. It’s going to be really important to keep an eye on these places, and a lot of people are completely unaware when they exist in their proximity.

[buttacake80]

I organized the protest that got this man killed.

His name was Willem van Spronsen. He was the child of Dutch immigrants who stood by and did nothing. So he took "Never Again" to heart when Trump separated children from families back in 2019.

They used the Northwest Detention Center to house the parents. An immigrant group protested weekly, and they organized communication between separated families. I had even started the process of becoming a sponsor, but I was physically assaulted at work just two months later.

I remember receiving the call in the middle of the night. I didn't know him, but I was one of the last to see him alive.

He had stopped to help Jumpstart someone's car. I was always taught to make sure everyone got home safely, so I wasn't going to leave, but they insisted things were under control, so I drove away.

I don't know if that car-- the one he was tinkering with-- was the car he blew up.

I do know that the Tacoma police used so many bullets that the Port-A-Potties that we had rented for the event were riddled with bullet holes and the company had to salvage them.

For months, I waited to hear from the FBI. I am still surprised they never bothered to contact me because my name was on the event.

If I hadn't organized that, would he still be alive? I don't know, but it has plagued my conscience these past 5 years.

I don't want to do this again.

[usadvlottery]

Immigrant Legal Aid Policies in the United States encompass a set of regulations and initiatives designed to provide legal assistance and support to individuals navigating the complex immigration system. These policies aim to ensure that immigrants, regardless of their status, have access to fair representation, information, and resources. Legal aid organizations collaborate with government agencies, pro bono attorneys, and community partners to offer services such as legal consultations, representation in immigration court proceedings, and advocacy for the protection of immigrants' rights. These policies reflect the commitment to upholding the principles of justice, fairness, and inclusive, recognizing the importance of a robust legal framework to address the diverse needs of the immigrant population in the United States.

[the-psudo]

The government can and will put immigrants and citizens into internment camps that also qualify as concentration camps due to the population concentrated in a small area. They've done it before, and I expect they'll do it again sometime in the next four years. I'm not sure that Trump specifically will be able do create a Guantanamo Bay concentration camp specifically, because he's pretty inept, because the people who run Guantanamo Bay are extremely not, and because Cuba will undoubtedly interfere and resist. I think, like Trump's wall, it will remain largely unenacted at the end of Trump's term. But it's about 70:30 odds, nothing like a sure thing. And this particular project's failure, even if it does fail, will not be because Trump has moral principles against treating anyone so badly. Trump absolutely will treat people, including US citizens, every bit as badly as the Japanese (and Koreans) were treated in the internment camps of the 1940s. That's a given.

A reminder to the "the American government wouldn't..." crowd. They have. They have made their own internment camps before. They have rounded up innocent citizens and immigrants before. The victims of which are still alive to this day and trying to share their stories with the world, they have been trying to warn us for a long time. George Takei (as seen above) is a famous example of this. He has written about his experiences time and time again, even publishing a book talking about his time in these camps. He may be famous now, but at the time he was just another kid forced from his home. To this day he still firmly dedicates himself to trying to educate and inform people, trying to spread awareness with his platform. The American Government can and will do terrible things. Do not let anyone convince you otherwise.

[docholligay]

So for all of you who think nothing matters:

We have a local, I guess I'll call it an events complex. It's where concerts and the fair go. It's owned by the city.

When Trump started the whole ICE thing, our commissioner sent a letter to the local representatives, telling them they could use it as a detention center for illegal immigrants. Our event center. Where the 4H kids show their fuckin' lambs.

"The fuck you will" was the resounding reply.

So, when I talk about coalition-building, and working with people you do not agree with or maybe even like, this is what I'm talking about. There was an immediate and vocal show of disapproval, from all sides. We all contacted people we knew would dislike this, REGARDLESS OF HOW THEY FELT ABOUT ANYTHING ELSE. The meeting was packed with people yelling at the commissioners. Of all political stripes. Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, Prairie Populist, Independent.

Some were, of course, the tumblr-style arguments about inherent humanity, but--I think more compellingly if you're actually trying to put the pressure on--there were questions of, 'How are we gonna get paid?" "Are you aware of how, as the only event center for more than two hours, much fuckin money this brings into the community? ANd that immigrants of all types make up less than 2% of the population of the entire state?(my argument), "Do we trust the government to pay us?", "Isn't there a fuckin' empty prison in [town about an hour from here]? Are you just being a kiss-ass?' (offered up by a man I know to be very conservative indeed. BUT HE DID NOT WANT OUR SPACE USED FOR THIS) and, an argument that was so good I was infuriated I didn't come up with it, "DO you think the bank is gonna want to be known as the sponsor of "National bank Detention Center?" (Which caught on and the bank had to offer up a letter saying how they hoped the commissioners would use the event center as intended.)

They folded. A letter came out a few days ago from the manager of the event center, saying it was decided that the events center would rescind the offer, as "more acceptable alternatives could be found." They blinked.

That's the thing. All that happened is that a bunch of people got mad an went to ONE TWO HOUR MEETING. It changed everything.

SHOW. UP.

[plethoraworldatlas]

The Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (OIG) published a report last month finding that nearly one-third of medical procedures performed on immigrants in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody were not properly authorized.

The report found that ICE improperly authorized 32% of major surgeries performed on individuals in ICE detention without having gone through the proper procedure first. Due to ICE’s improper authorization, the OIG audit could not verify whether the surgeries were medically necessary. The report also suggests that the forced hysterectomies performed by medical staff to women detained at the Irwin Detention Center in Georgia were not isolated incidents.

One of the issues noted in the report was that approval for these medical procedures was not given by the appropriate medical staff. According to the report, the ICE Health Service Corp (IHSC), which provides medical services to people in ICE detention, requires major surgeries to be authorized by certain personnel with a specific level of training and expertise. They must have a medical degree or equivalent and at least three years of medical training leading to board eligibility or certification that distinguishes them from other medical practitioners.

The OIG’s review of a sample of 227 surgery reports found that in only 72 of them, the surgeries were approved by the appropriate level of personnel, such as nurses or nurse practitioners.

[nando161mando]

We are live on Twitch!

Vigil at GEO ICE Detention Center in Aurora Spreads Love to Immigrants

https://www.twitch.tv/unicorn_riot

[super-ultra-mega-deluxe]

it's been said a million times but there is something horrific about left liberals crawling out of the woodwork every 4-8 years to pretend to care about ICE and immigrant detention centers and the enslavement/deportation of various racialized peoples. they don't care in any real sense, it's just a bit of political theatre about the farcical party system of the states. the US has been committing genocide and utilizing concentration camps for centuries

[truechatinc]

The United States is expecting to double the volume of people crossing the southern border, but we are lacking a plan to manage this new influx of immigrants. Justin and Lance discuss how democrats and republicans are approaching this issue and discuss potential solutions to the border crisis. tags: tsou, justin weller, lance jackson, Illegal immigration, Southern border, Border crisis, Immigration policy, Border security, Humanitarian crisis, Immigration reform, Detention centers, Asylum seekers, Border patrol, Immigration enforcement, Immigration legislation

[probablyasocialecologist]

For years now, both Democratic and Republican administrations have used a little-known section of the Guantánamo Bay Naval base to detain migrants, primarily from the Caribbean. And due to the secrecy of the facility, known as the Guantánamo Migrant Operations Center (MOC), conditions at the facility are generally unknown. In the fall, Drop Site News published previously unreported details of the treatment of migrants at the MOC, the bureaucratic process of how migrants are detained, and the private prison companies profiting from the detention center. In August 2024, the Biden administration granted a private prison company a $163.4 million contract to run the facility. "For decades, the Guantanamo migrant detention center has been the hallmark of the most inhumane, racist, and brutal U.S. policies against people seeking refuge," said Jesse Franzblau, senior policy analyst with the National Immigrant Justice Center. "The Biden administration could have shut down the facility but tragically renewed and entered into new contracts to keep it up and running." Drop Site News revealed that the MOC can detain single adults, families, and unaccompanied children. Because the MOC is inside of a military base, migrants awaiting processing are transported in black out vans “with hand restraints and black out goggles to obscure their vision,” according to the documents obtained by Drop Site. Migrants also have limited communication with the outside world, with their few phone calls monitored for “restricted information,” including information about the navy base, the documents showed.

30 January 2025

[plethoraworldatlas]

Human rights advocates see the Biden administration’s expansion of detention-reliant immigration enforcement as a betrayal, guided by political headwinds rather than operational necessities.

In a letter to President Biden delivered Thursday, 200 organizations voiced “outrage over your administration’s expansion of the cruel and unnecessary immigration detention system.”

The groups, most of them longtime opponents of the practice of immigration detention, are incensed over skyrocketing detention spending, with $3.4 billion destined to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention bed space in the $1.2 trillion federal spending package Biden signed in March.

“Our organizations work with and advocate on behalf of people who have experienced immigration detention. They carry life long scars from the mistreatment and dehumanization they endured because of the United States’ reliance on detention, mostly through private prisons and county jails. Your administration is further entrenching this reliance, marking an utter betrayal of your campaign promises,” wrote the groups.

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“The system your administration is expanding is riddled with abuse and impunity. Your senior officials have been aware of these significant human rights concerns since day one. ICE’s jails and prisons operate under insufficient standards with inspections that are notorious for covering up deficiencies,” wrote the groups, which include Amnesty International USA, the National Immigrant Justice Center, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and the International Refugee Assistance Project.

“Inadequate medical care results in deaths; LGBTQ individuals in custody suffer homophobic and transphobic harassment and abuse; basic sanitation is often lacking; Black immigrants face unaffordable bonds and violence at disparately high rates; and ICE’s use of solitary confinement regularly meets the United Nations’ definition of torture.”

[reality-detective]

This is why Trump getting rid of FEMA is a big deal…

They were literally planning on putting US Citizens in FEMA Camps…

Did you know FEMA was developed as a Domestic anti-‘Terrorist’ Organization — Not Disaster Emergencies?

🔴 HAVE YOU HEARD OF REX 84?

• Short for Readiness Exercise 1984, was a classified scenario and drill by the United States federal government intended to test the capacity to DETAIN large numbers of American citizens in the event of a “national emergency or civil unrest”.

• The exercise was designed to manage a scenario where a significant number of people would be detained, focusing on potential "national security threats."

• Rex 84 was part of a broader continuity of government plan, involving multiple federal agencies and exercises like Operation Garden Plot, which deals with civil disturbances.

• The exercise included a scenario where the U.S. Army would airlift troops from Fort Bragg to simulate an invasion in Central America, under the code name Rex 84 Night Train.

• Rex 84 Alpha focused on civil mobilization, involving 34 federal agencies, while Rex 84 Bravo was the specific scenario for mass detentions.

• The plan included the capability to detain UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS and/or Americans labeled as security threats.

• It involved the potential use of MILITARY bases as detention centers, which could be activated if a national emergency was declared by the President.

- The plan was part of a series of readiness exercises that tested various aspects of national security and emergency responses.