The Senate probe discovers claims of widespread abuse in ice custody
A US Senate investigations have identified more than 500 valid human rights abuses in the arrest of US immigration since January, including warning to abuse with pregnant women and children.
Since late last month, US senator, John Osov, Georgia Democrat – discovered 41 physical and sexual abuse. 14 Includes pregnant detainees and 18 children.
Abuse facilities account in 25 states, including Puerto Rico, US military bases and charter dispatch flights. Among the most terrifying: A pregnant woman reported days before being taken to hospital, just because of abortion without medical care, due to abortion. Others described that they had to sleep on the ground or deny meals and medical examinations. Lawyers reported that their customers’ prenatal investigations were canceled simultaneously for weeks.
Children at the age of 2 were also neglected. An American citizen who has severe medical needs, several times while hospitalized in customs and border protection, where an officer said “only gives a cracker girl” has rejected his mother’s wishes for help. Another child who is recovering from brain surgery is reportedly deprived of follow -up care, and a 4 -year -old child was deported to cancer without access to doctors.
In the Senate investigation, most of the reports of detention centers in Texas, Georgia and California showed that both facilities managed by the Department of Security and Federal Prisons used in the Migration and Customs Agreements (ICE). The findings are based on dozens of interviews, Osuv’s office, including detainees, family members, lawyers, correction employees, law enforcement, doctors and nurses, as well as inspecting a site in detention centers in Texas and Georgia.
The report also deals with confirmation of news research and public records, deals with sources such as Wired, Miami Herald, NBC News, CNN, BBC and regional media such as Louisiana Illuminator and VT Digger.
Together, these sources have formed what this report describes as “active and continuous investigations” about the systemic abuse of pregnant women and children in US detention.
Ice did not respond to Wired request for comment.
The wired investigation released in late June, focusing on 911 of the country’s 10 largest ice detention centers, and a model of medical crises, including pregnancy complications and suicide, showed seizures, head injuries and rape claims. (Wired shared its findings with Osuv’s office on request last month.)
Sources told Wiried that detainees have often failed to respond to urgent calls, including numerous cases in which pregnant women have had serious complications or abortion, or abortion.
The Trump administration’s arrest system is expanding rapidly and planning more than twice as much more than 107,000 beds across the country. The new facilities are on the rise in West Texas, where a $ 232 million contract has provided a tent -style camp in Fort Bliss that is capable of holding 5,000 people. And in Indiana, where the ice traded with 1,000 detained in the state prison system.
The so -called “Alcatraz” siege in Florida has now attracted human rights abuses and environmental harm, while critics have warned that relying on military bases and remote rural prisons to attract uptold and upward trends.
Civil law groups and local supporters argue that the expansion of a system that has previously been neglected, referring to reports of abortion, untreated disease and domestic violence.
The United States, with contracts transferred to private prison companies and military facilities, falls into the country’s largest immigration detention network – infrastructure that critics say is invisible not only to keep immigrants but for their suffering.
