"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.

  • Boddhisatva@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    No, I don’t think so. It seems like it’s literally an office where they, in less draconian times, would bring detainees to be processes and then sent on to an actual detention facility. It has “holding rooms” where people would be held until being transferred. Those rooms are bullet proof glass with just a sink and a toilet.

    Now, according to the article, the rooms are packed with up to 80 people for a week at a time. They have no access to basic hygiene nor medical care. An internment camp carries the implication that it is built with the intention of holding a large number of people. These are literally just cells in a processing office that is packed full of people who are being treated even more inhumanely (if that’s possible) than those in internment camps.