Migrants at Ice jail in Miami made to kneel to eat 'like dogs', report alleges

[babylonsister]

Migrants at Ice jail in Miami made to kneel to eat ‘like dogs’, report alleges
Incident in which migrants were shackled with hands tied of one succession of alleged abuses at jails in Florida
Richard Luscombe in Miami
Mon 21 Jul 2025 04.00 EDT


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.

“We had to eat like animals,” one detainee named Pedro said.

Degrading treatment by guards is commonplace in all three jails, the groups say. At the Krome North service processing center in west Miami, female detainees were made to use toilets in full view of men being held there, and were denied access to gender-appropriate care, showers, or adequate food.

The jail was so far beyond capacity, some transferring detainees reported, that they were held for more than 24 hours in a bus in the parking lot. Men and women were confined together, and unshackled only when they needed to use the single toilet, which quickly became clogged.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/21/migrants-miami-ice-jail-abuses

[malaise]

1. Effin evil

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Fascism in full view

[NotHardly]

11. Shame no one around to enforce decency.

[Trueblue1968]

37. Reading this made me cry !!!!!! Those ICE people are PURE EVIL. Cant Trump be turned over to a World Court

For these evil actions ???? Who polices EVIL and Violent WORLD LEADERS. ????

[Irish_Dem]

2. Public cruelty is the point. Treat people like animals.

Trump is punishing and torturing all Americans.

No federal govt to help them.
No science, diminished health care.
No vaccines.
No education, etc etc.
Trump and his pals are stealing public lands and public money which belongs to the people.

The American people are demeaned and dehumanized every day.

The immigrant torture is part of the entire picture.

[sop]

4. I always believed Americans would rise up when confronted with such tyranny.

After all, it was a big part of our foundational mythology that Americans were a free people who stood up to kings and dictators. Looks like we've also lost that part of our national identity.

[Irish_Dem]

5. Yes the shock is how quickly everyone folded to tyranny and fascism.

I understand there will always be ruthless and dangerous psychopaths who rise to power.
But Americans and all checks and balances just folded like a cheap lawn chair.
To give up our democracy and freedom.

It is hard to believe but we see it every day.

[popsdenver]

15. No Shit I_D

Well said..............There is a lot of stuff that is way way way beyond bullying, and becoming pure Sadism.............
Which gives you a good look at they psychic of the New Republicans, Repub Politicans, and MAGAot voters..........
All of them loathe legitimate authority, rules and any regulations or laws.....
They would all love to see pure anarchy, prevail with them above it all and looking down, and them in charge with total power and control.

This stuff is seriously increasing with every day that passes................it is truly becoming absolute mayhem......
Something's gotta give and soon.

These MAGA jails, and swamp prisons are increasingly sounding like Hitler's horrific doings. Trump's next appointment of Surgeon General is going to closely align with Dr. Mengela..............

[Irish_Dem]

44. Trump is sadist. We can see this in how he loves to torment and harass people.

And with his rape MO. Designed to humiliate the women victims.
Picks out beautiful intelligent women, then uses his charm and fame to disarm them.
Then he lures and entraps them into a back room to rape them.
They have to realize he tricked them and they fell for the con job.
That is the part Trump likes. It is not really about sex.

[Norrrm]

6. NRA forgot to rise up

NRA forgot to rise up

[Irish_Dem]

13. The NRA worked for Putin. He was funding them.

[popsdenver]

16. Absolutely

A ton of Uber Rich Russians illegally and corruptly funneled and laundered hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars thru the NRA to Trump and Republican Senators and governors in the 2016 election.........
Putin set up a "Russian Branch" of the NRA, which then collected a fortune, and forwarded the money to the U.S. National NRA for disbursement to the Repub Party and Political candidates.......Can you imagine a NRA in Russia of all places?????? That is hilarious.......

[bdamomma]

26. We cannot

turn away, we should not think will be immune, let's stop this ASAP!!! It will hit us hard when they cast that net wider, or will we RESIST!!!

[Irish_Dem]

45. The net widens. First immigrant criminals, then all immigrants, next naturalized citizens.

Then all of us born here in the US.

[iemanja]

43. I didn't

and I couldn’t be more devastated about being right.

[2naSalit]

12. Yup...

We have to be punished for not loving him like he expects.

I hope, every morning, that I will see the headline we've all been awaiting for so long...but it hasn't happened yet.

[Irish_Dem]

14. Yes Trump is furious that all Americans don't adore and even have the nerve to criticize him.

After all he is the most perfect human being whoever lived.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

39. People will eventually be driven to desperation.

I’ll just leave it at that.

[bdamomma]

46. Stephen Miller

this is his sick plan!!!! Damaged men all of them.

Women are being held there too, horrible. Miller has to be stopped. Such a bastard he is.

[Solly Mack]

3. ...

[doc03]

7. Trump seems obsessed with torturing dogs. He is always threatening to treat someone

like a dog, he has people eating them.

[sop]

25. And he nominates people who shoot them.

[newdeal2]

8. No wonder they don't want any visitors or cameras

I hope there's someone who can get footage of what's going on inside these concentration camps.

The world should condemn what's going on in America.

[bdamomma]

47. The world

condemns what's happening here and in other parts of the world.

[scarletlib]

9. Is there local sourcing for this story? Where are you Miami Herald?

If even a fraction of this is proven then all of the “guards” who participated in this atrocity are guilty of crimes against humanity plus whatever U.S. laws are applicable.

If we ever return this country to normalcy then the first strep is prosecuting these crimes. Let’s make it fair and start with the people at the top first.

[Emile]

10. NAZI'S

[relayerbob]

17. Not that they give a shit

But this is a clear violation of the 8th Amendment.

[twodogsbarking]

18. What God would bless America?

[Jack Valentino]

19. Disgusting, outrageous and unconscionable. Human rights be damned. "3000 a day" quota

naturally brings the horrible over-crowding result, as ICE is trying to arrest many more people than they have adequate facilities to house, and they simply don't care about human rights at all...

Thanks for posting this, I was on the way in here to post the same article but hours later.

[Hekate]

30. The quota has nothing to do with "dangerous criminals" and everything to do with dehumanization

3,000 arrests per day just means scooping up every brown person in sight, from children in daycare to old people selling tacos and burritos. American citizens, US veterans, long term residents who’ve never so much as jaywalked, or who maybe did something stupid as a teenager that they never did again.

My sarcasm hit a peak when the father of 3 US Marines got a savage beat-down for — wait for it — weed-trimming outside a business. Then when our local fields got cleared of workers again and again, because you just know those strawberry-pickers are dangerous as hell — hard labor in the scorching heat is just deep cover for gangs.

Speaking of the beat-down, no matter who ICE is kidnapping, they always seem to need 6 fully-armed thugs to capture one person. Because, y’know, they eat pets, and they’re not human beings at all. Trump told us so.

[kimbutgar]

20. The international human rights organizations must condemn this and censure this administration for this cruelty

Where’s The Hague ? It inhumane and evil. And don’t get me started on how unchristian this is !

[Grins]

21. Imagine the hate they created in doing that.

By those detained.
By their families.
By people in their former homeland.
By the rest of the world that looks at America and wonders, “What happened to America???”

[58Sunliner]

22. Sadistic sick bastards.

[Torchlight]

23. We are becoming the very thing we used to fight against

Given the growing degeneracy of leadership and the collective actions by the worst among us, it seems we are now finishing up Act II of becoming the very thing we once stood against.

[bdamomma]

24. Treating

people like animals this is dehumanization. I would like to see the Project 2025 posse in cages like this and especially Stephen Miller, damaged men!!!

This is being done in our name!!!!! Disgusting,

[LudwigPastorius]

27. Abu Ghraib West

How long before the electric shocks and mock executions begin?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

28. Stephen Miller smiles.

... er, if he could smile, that is.

[Hekate]

29. Torture camp. Concentration camp. Death camp.

[Johnny2X2X]

31. Mass graves are sure to follow

Whenever in history a group in power dehumanizes a group and begins rounding them up while telling the soldier/guards rounding them up that they are subhuman and need to be abused, it leads to mass killings.

People are already dying in custody of ICE. There's no accounting for who is in custody, where they are, and how long since they've been taken. It's probably already happening, somewhere at one of these ICE facilities, groups of guards have decided it's easier to execute the prisoners than to house them, who's going to ever know if you dig a big enough hole?

[moonshinegnomie]

32. people need to start arresting ICE officials

if the police wont do it then the people should

[OverBurn]

33. Nazi fucks, the whole lot of them. I wish Karma existed, unfortunately it does not.

[barbtries]

34. omigawd.

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is there not an international body to which we can appeal for help?

i'm so upset right now.

generalstrikeus.com #MassiveTaxRevolt

i read that republicans approved 2 billion dollars of our money to bring back alcatraz. what a fucking waste. ETA it was NOT approved. people in the administration are wasting time and taxpayer dollars because krasnov wants it.

[babylonsister]

36. I hadn't heard that about Alcatraz being approved.

I hilariously thought cooler heads would prevail. But it's heartening to know budgets and deficits are playing such a big role in their decision making.

[barbtries]

38. I saw it but did not verify.

it hasn't been approved.

the people around him are indulging the fantasy he hatched after watching The Rock.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-17/feds-prep-for-reopening-of-alcatraz-prison-critics-call-it-the-stupidest-initiative-yet

[BidenRocks]

35. Human rights abuses go to the Hague, don't they?

Along with other crimes against humanity.

Killing USAID and millions of children surely qualifies the entire administration for prosecution.

I thought Kars 4 Kids was annoying until Noem's ass kissing commercials.

I hope a pack of dogs tears her apart!

[iemanja]

42. The US isn't a signatory to the ICC

and is now acting with impunity as a result.

[FadedMullet]

40. I would hope that one of the questions that investigators would ask would be "Were they filmed eating like this and.....

........who has seen or requested to see this film footage?

[iemanja]

41. Hitler has been reborn

And presides over death camps in two parts of the world now. Their perpetrators and defenders are nothing less than evil.

[DFW]

48. Brought to you by the same channel that brought you Abu Ghraib

It has only been twenty years. It’s the same team, but they don’t have to send America’s worst to Iraq any more to act out their cruel fantasies.

Republican Sadism is as Republican Sadism does.