Immigrants detained in federal sites in Florida have faced inhuman conditions, including poor medical care, abuse and neglect and congestion, allegedly stated by Human Rights Watch in a report released on Monday.
Advocacy group in 93 page report The terms described at three immigrants and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities were expanded at the Chrome North Service Processing Center (Chrome), Browd Transitional Center (BTC) and Federal Detention Center (FDC) in Miami.
According to the report, prisoners and their colleagues claimed severe violations of medical standards and other violations of their ICE guidelines in three florida facilities.
A spokesperson for the Bureau of Point told The Hill that the agency could not comment on specific circumstances, but mentioned that it is the mission of the BOP “to operate the features that are safe, safe and human.”
The BOP said in a statement, “We protect our detained persons and take our duty seriously to maintain the security of our employees and community.”
Hill has also requested comments from the Department of Ice and Homeland Security (DHS).
“Some were detained for a long time on buses without food, water, or toilets without a toilet; cold holding cells were extremely crowded, where prisoners were forced to sleep on the floor of cold concrete under continuous fluorescent lighting; and many were denied access to basic hygiene and medical care,” the HRW researchers have written in their reports. “The one-track immigration policy of the Trump administration, collectively focusing on large-scale exile, will continue to send more people to immigration detention facilities, which do not have the ability to catch them and will only spoil the conditions described in this report.”
President Trump’s administration this year increased detention and exile as part of a broad immigration crackdown. Additionally, Congress Passed a law Earlier this year, dubbed The Leken Relay ActThis makes the federal detention of migrants accused of theft, theft and other crimes compulsory.
Record show This month, more than 56,000 migrants were kept in detention facilities every day across the country.
Florida Has attracted attention After the inauguration of the so -called “crocodile Alkatraz” site, for migrant detention, which Trump recently visited Everglades, but the feature was not among the people reviewed in the HRW report.
HRW cited the interview with the current 11 and the recently detained migrants were detained; Family members of seven prisoners; And 14 immigration lawyers to document the experiences of 17 migrants in Chrome, BTC and FDC facilities.
“If you ask for help, they separate you,” a woman, who was not nominated in the report, told the researchers. “If you cry, they can take you away for two weeks.”
“So, people keep quiet,” he said.
HRW offered several recommendations to improve detention facilities and procedures to interact with unspecified migrants, which do not pose an immediate threat to the public.
HRW suggested policy changes to avoid detaining people with disabilities, ensuring that medical conditions are treated and amidst other efforts to improve detention, how to monitor how facilities are being run.
