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jayschool2013

(2,573 posts)
Fri Mar 14, 2025, 07:40 AM Mar 14

'It's scary right now': ICE holds detainees for days in bedless Baltimore cells

Source: The Baltimore Banner

John-John Williams IV and Daniel Zawodny
3/14/2025 5:30 a.m. EDT

She slept on a cold cement floor because there weren’t any beds. She wasn’t allowed to shower or brush her teeth. When she complained about the food, she said they stopped feeding her altogether.

April Amaya-Luis said she never imagined she would be held under such harsh conditions in a temporary holding cell in ICE’s Baltimore office for seven days while waiting to be sent to a detention center out of state. With little contact with the outside world, she said she battled suicidal thoughts as a result of the experience last month.

Ordeals similar to what was experienced by Amaya-Luis are increasingly common for those detained by federal immigration agents, where immigrants are held at ICE’s Baltimore field office for multiple days at a time, according to interviews with more than a half-dozen local immigration attorneys.

The extended use of a temporary holding facility not equipped for overnight stays comes as President Donald Trump’s administration is moving aggressively to curb immigration and to deport people living in the United States without documentation.



Read more: https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-power/state-government/ice-baltimore-trump-immigration-deportation-detention-WNRGQUGLTVHD3MBFV4QUMEKDYM/?schk=YES&rchk=YES&utm_source=The+Baltimore+Banner&utm_campaign=d721b3c970-NL_AMSC_20250314_0700&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-d721b3c970-600294936&mc_cid=d721b3c970&mc_eid=7572628fb8

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'It's scary right now': ICE holds detainees for days in bedless Baltimore cells (Original Post) jayschool2013 Mar 14 OP
This is barbaric and sadistic, and everyone responsible for this treatment of detainees should be prosecuted. highplainsdem Mar 14 #1
As is intended. Passing the CR will bring this to the rest of us. NotHardly Mar 14 #5
its time to start jailing officials moonshinegnomie Mar 14 #2
Who is supposed to do that? maxsolomon Mar 14 #4
MASA* is not so "great" eh? Justice matters. Mar 14 #3
Does deportation Cherokee100 Mar 14 #6

highplainsdem

(55,527 posts)
1. This is barbaric and sadistic, and everyone responsible for this treatment of detainees should be prosecuted.
Fri Mar 14, 2025, 08:50 AM
Mar 14

NotHardly

(2,072 posts)
5. As is intended. Passing the CR will bring this to the rest of us.
Fri Mar 14, 2025, 01:20 PM
Mar 14

Schumer is a p*ssy and traitor to us all. Old sour-faced fart.

moonshinegnomie

(3,312 posts)
2. its time to start jailing officials
Fri Mar 14, 2025, 09:17 AM
Mar 14

haul the heads of ICE into court and jail them. preferably in the same conditions

Justice matters.

(8,303 posts)
3. MASA* is not so "great" eh?
Fri Mar 14, 2025, 12:02 PM
Mar 14

*Make America $uffer Again

The rest of the world is watching the "new" mass-maltreatment of human beings.

No wonder they hate the cruel king and his court of cruel billionaires

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