Incident in which migrants were shackled with hands tied of one succession of alleged abuses at jails in Florida
Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “like dogs”, according to a report published on Monday into conditions at three overcrowded south Florida facilities.
The incident at the downtown federal detention center is one of a succession of alleged abuses at Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (Ice) operated jails in the state since January, chronicled by advocacy groups Human Rights Watch, Americans for Immigrant Justice, and Sanctuary of the South from interviews with detainees.
Dozens of men had been packed into a holding cell for hours, the report said, and denied lunch until about 7pm. They remained shackled with the food on chairs in front of them.
Abu Ghraid 2.0…
Remember when that treatment came to light and people were generally horrified? Do we just need photos so everyone can see what’s going on with their own two eyes like Abu Ghraib? Or are we morally past the point where people who voted for this would even care? They might even celebrate it.
That’s why we extensively photographed the Nazi extermination camps when they were liberated; so people would believe the horrors.
They would just flap gums about the images being AI generated.
I don’t want to sound like I’m defending torture or anything. I just want to point out that at least the prisoners at Abu Ghraid were accused of being terrorists (whether that was accurate or not).
The people at Alligator Auschwitz are just migrants.
Regardless of the reason why these people are incarcerated, they’re being treated as if they’re not human.
And the people in Abu Ghraib never got due process either.