Just when I thought ICE’s human rights alleged violations couldn’t get any worse, out come some troubling reports about some of their detention centers in Florida, specifically in Miami. Miami’s ICE detention centers or jails have apparently resorted to torturing the migrant detainees by starving them, forcing them to eat like animals, and even leaving them sitting beside their own feces.
This information came from Americans for Immigrant Justice, Human Rights Watch, and Sanctuary of the South and their 92-page report called “‘You Feel Like Your Life is Over’: Abusive Practices at Three Florida Immigration Detention Centers Since January 2025,” which was released this week. The report has revealed some disturbing allegations which happened at the Krome North Service Processing Center, Broward Transitional Center, and the Federal Detention Center, all in Miami, Florida.
“Some were shackled for prolonged periods on buses without food, water, or functioning toilets; there was extreme overcrowding in freezing holding cells where detainees were forced to sleep on cold concrete floors under constant fluorescent lighting…”
“We had to eat like animals,” according to a detainee named Pedro, transcript courtesy of The Guardian
“The bus became disgusting. It was the type of toilet in which normally people only urinate but because we were on the bus for so long, and we were not permitted to leave it, others defecated in the toilet. Because of this, the whole bus smelled strongly of feces,“ accoring to another detainee
The situations at the cell were no better, as apparently, the overcrowded conditions in these Miami facilities led to certain health conditions being overlooked. One man even allegedly coughed up blood for hours in a crowded cell while others were starved, and by the time they were given food, the guards didn’t bother taking off their shackles, so they had to eat kneeling with their hands tied behind their backs.
Moreover, these conditions have supposedly been the contributing factor to the Alligator Alcatraz being greenlit and built so quickly after the announcement. You can read more details about the extent of the horrific abuse that detained migrants had to endure in the original 92-page human rights report that was published recently.
That’s No Way to Treat Other Humans
Such a distressing series of abuses and some might even consider torture, has angered many people online. Some of ICE and the Trump administration’s loudest critics have drawn comparisons between the Miami ICE jails and either Guantanamo Bay or Nazi Concentration Camps.
Others were simply in disbelief at how ICE treated their detainees, considering how many of them were merely wrongfully accused or even abducted despite having no criminal records. Some ICE detainees were even fully-fledged US citizens who merely had darker skin tones. ICE is also very much aware of how despicable their line of work is, considering how many times they kept asking for privacy when carrying out their “arrests.”
Given how the Trump administration and ICE are still ramping up arrests, conditions in the detention centers are only bound to get worse.
“We will need serious reforms, on the level of post-WWII Germany, if we manage to come back from this. Absolutely despicable what is being done in this country, and how many people are going along with it,” suggests Tuesday_6PM
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ICE jailAmerican concentration camp,” says _PM_ME_YOUR_****SKIN“Aren’t these the same people who don’t want women to use the bathroom in front of men and vice versa? Seems to go against bathroom safety narrative,” Im_with_stooopid
