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Demovictory9

(36,798 posts)
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 08:53 AM 20 hrs ago

"The day I leave here, I'm going to remember the injustices ICE has done to us; there are so many things."

Description of life in ICE detention..long read


“The day I leave here, I’m going to remember the injustices ICE has done to us; there are so many things.”

‘I’m going to ask for my deportation, I can’t stand being here one more day’: The life of a group of migrants in a Texas detention center cell | U.S. | EL PAÍS English


https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-07-21/im-going-to-ask-for-my-deportation-i-cant-stand-being-here-one-more-day-the-life-of-a-group-of-migrants-in-a-texas-detention-center-cell.html

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"The day I leave here, I'm going to remember the injustices ICE has done to us; there are so many things." (Original Post) Demovictory9 20 hrs ago OP
Trump treats them like animals because that's how he thinks of them. sop 19 hrs ago #1
'I'm going to ask for my deportation, I can't stand being here one more day': hatrack 19 hrs ago #2
For the next three generations, Americans will be apologizing Torchlight 19 hrs ago #3
More from your link UpInArms 19 hrs ago #4

sop

(15,238 posts)
1. Trump treats them like animals because that's how he thinks of them.
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 09:10 AM
19 hrs ago

"Washington, D.C. - On Wednesday, President Trump referred to undocumented immigrants as 'animals' during a White House meeting with California leaders who oppose sanctuary city policies. 'We have people coming into the country, or trying to come in, we’re stopping a lot of them. And we’re taking people out of the country, you wouldn’t believe how bad these people are.' Trump stated. 'These aren’t people, these are animals.' "

https://lulac.org/news/pr/LULAC_Denounces_President_Trumps_Remarks_Calling_Undocumented_Immigrants_Animals/

hatrack

(63,031 posts)
2. 'I'm going to ask for my deportation, I can't stand being here one more day':
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 09:11 AM
19 hrs ago

Gee whiz, you just can't buy great PR like that for 'Murca, now can you?

Can't wait to see crowds flocking from across the globe for the World Cup and the Olympics, right here in 'Murca!!

Torchlight

(5,147 posts)
3. For the next three generations, Americans will be apologizing
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 09:24 AM
19 hrs ago

to the world for what he does over the next three years. It's a bitter conclusion I'm coming to: we have become the very force of oppression and arrogance we once stood united against.

UpInArms

(53,143 posts)
4. More from your link
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 09:26 AM
19 hrs ago
Emmanuel left Belize in 1998. He went to Mexico, and four years ago, he crossed the border into the United States, looking for what everyone else is looking for. When he lived in Guadalajara, Mexico, where he had a plumbing business, he was stabbed in the neck and had one of his ears cut off. He had to leave, and now he’s afraid to return.

It’s the same fear his other cellmate, Jaime Navarro, a 54-year-old Mexican, feels. “I’m fleeing my country because they tore my tendons, broke my hand, and almost ripped off my heel.” He says it’s because of drug cartel issues.
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