What Is Life Like Inside an ICE Detention Center?

I have been readiing disturbing reports about life inside ICE detention centers.  

 

Terrible things are happening, but you can make a difference.  Scroll down for more.  

 

ICE agents swoop in and detain people without warning. Those detained are shackled and repeatedly moved from one facility to another without explanation, sometimes being moved across state lines on multiple occasions.  

Their belongings are taken from them. They are denied food for their specialist diets. They have inadequate water supplied to them. They are denied their prescription meds.  There are gaps in mdntal health care and suicide prevention.   Some are separated from their children. They are denied space in which to pray.

They are often living in filthy conditions, in freezing cold cells with open toilets. They live under constant fluorescent lights 24 hours a day. Some are not given soap or toothbrushes. Some have no mattresses or bedding. Some women are denied sanitary products. 

 

Detainees report physical humiliation and violence.  

 

Nobody discusses the detainees’ cases with them or explains anything to them. They are required to wear uniforms as if in prison.

They do not have criminal records.

And these facilities are run for profit.

This doctoral student shares her experience of being detained in an ICE prison. 

 

How we can all support immigrants. 

 

This woman from New Zealand was detained with her six-year-old. 

 

This Canadian woman was detained. 

 

A judge condemned what he called “inhumane and horrifying conditions”.

ICE documents reveal plan to double immigrant detention space this year.  

 

We must speak out against injustice and inequality.  

 

We must speak up for justice.  We must speak up for peace.  We must speak up for human dignity.  We must speak up for justice.  We must speak up for kindness.  

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Terrible Things Are Happening right in our own communities, and across the world.  But there are rays of hope.  And you can help.  

Go here for my review of Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg.  

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