"The situation is getting worse by the day," warns Amy Fischer, an organizer with Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid. "It is an office; it is not intended to detain people."

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/26767060

The conditions include one meal a day that consists of a single burrito, some 40 to 90 people at a time crammed into a single room with no beds, and some detainees held as long as seven days with no ability to bathe, according to accounts shared with MSNBC by attorneys and a family member of a person being detained.

“They just give us one burrito with water,” said the immigrant, who already had an active immigration case when he was picked up. His father spent at least six days at the Chantilly ICE office and also was given one burrito per day, and the crowding was so severe that his father had to sleep sitting up at times, the son told MSNBC.

  • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Pretty sure burritos are the quintessential hand food to most people, with the sole exception of like loaded versions where it’s so stuffed with foodstuffs that it would disintegrate in ones hands. We don’t need to point to cultural trends that exist in an exceptionally limited capacity if at all to note that they’re dehumanization people, id agree with you if it was pasta or something but frankly in this case it may just be that they are lazy and don’t want to deal with utensils so they went with a hand food.