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babylonsister

(172,259 posts)
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 06:50 AM Jul 21

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


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
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Migrants at Ice jail in Miami made to kneel to eat 'like dogs', report alleges (Original Post) babylonsister Jul 21 OP
Effin evil malaise Jul 21 #1
Shame no one around to enforce decency. NotHardly Jul 21 #11
Reading this made me cry !!!!!! Those ICE people are PURE EVIL. Cant Trump be turned over to a World Court Trueblue1968 Jul 21 #37
Public cruelty is the point. Treat people like animals. Irish_Dem Jul 21 #2
I always believed Americans would rise up when confronted with such tyranny. sop Jul 21 #4
Yes the shock is how quickly everyone folded to tyranny and fascism. Irish_Dem Jul 21 #5
No Shit I_D popsdenver Jul 21 #15
Trump is sadist. We can see this in how he loves to torment and harass people. Irish_Dem Jul 22 #44
NRA forgot to rise up Norrrm Jul 21 #6
The NRA worked for Putin. He was funding them. Irish_Dem Jul 21 #13
Absolutely popsdenver Jul 21 #16
We cannot bdamomma Jul 21 #26
The net widens. First immigrant criminals, then all immigrants, next naturalized citizens. Irish_Dem Jul 22 #45
I didn't iemanja Jul 22 #43
Yup... 2naSalit Jul 21 #12
Yes Trump is furious that all Americans don't adore and even have the nerve to criticize him. Irish_Dem Jul 21 #14
People will eventually be driven to desperation. Prof. Toru Tanaka Jul 21 #39
Stephen Miller bdamomma Jul 22 #46
... Solly Mack Jul 21 #3
Trump seems obsessed with torturing dogs. He is always threatening to treat someone doc03 Jul 21 #7
And he nominates people who shoot them. sop Jul 21 #25
No wonder they don't want any visitors or cameras newdeal2 Jul 21 #8
The world bdamomma Thursday #47
Is there local sourcing for this story? Where are you Miami Herald? scarletlib Jul 21 #9
NAZI'S Emile Jul 21 #10
Not that they give a shit relayerbob Jul 21 #17
What God would bless America? twodogsbarking Jul 21 #18
Disgusting, outrageous and unconscionable. Human rights be damned. "3000 a day" quota Jack Valentino Jul 21 #19
The quota has nothing to do with "dangerous criminals" and everything to do with dehumanization Hekate Jul 21 #30
The international human rights organizations must condemn this and censure this administration for this cruelty kimbutgar Jul 21 #20
Imagine the hate they created in doing that. Grins Jul 21 #21
Sadistic sick bastards. 58Sunliner Jul 21 #22
We are becoming the very thing we used to fight against Torchlight Jul 21 #23
Treating bdamomma Jul 21 #24
Abu Ghraib West LudwigPastorius Jul 21 #27
Stephen Miller smiles. JustABozoOnThisBus Jul 21 #28
Torture camp. Concentration camp. Death camp. Hekate Jul 21 #29
Mass graves are sure to follow Johnny2X2X Jul 21 #31
people need to start arresting ICE officials moonshinegnomie Jul 21 #32
Nazi fucks, the whole lot of them. I wish Karma existed, unfortunately it does not. OverBurn Jul 21 #33
omigawd. barbtries Jul 21 #34
I hadn't heard that about Alcatraz being approved. babylonsister Jul 21 #36
I saw it but did not verify. barbtries Jul 21 #38
Human rights abuses go to the Hague, don't they? BidenRocks Jul 21 #35
The US isn't a signatory to the ICC iemanja Jul 22 #42
I would hope that one of the questions that investigators would ask would be "Were they filmed eating like this and..... FadedMullet Jul 21 #40
Hitler has been reborn iemanja Jul 22 #41
Brought to you by the same channel that brought you Abu Ghraib DFW Thursday #48

Trueblue1968

(18,649 posts)
37. Reading this made me cry !!!!!! Those ICE people are PURE EVIL. Cant Trump be turned over to a World Court
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 08:26 PM
Jul 21

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

Irish_Dem

(72,736 posts)
2. Public cruelty is the point. Treat people like animals.
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 06:54 AM
Jul 21

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

(15,321 posts)
4. I always believed Americans would rise up when confronted with such tyranny.
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 07:26 AM
Jul 21

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

(72,736 posts)
5. Yes the shock is how quickly everyone folded to tyranny and fascism.
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 07:42 AM
Jul 21

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

(70 posts)
15. No Shit I_D
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 11:18 AM
Jul 21

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

(72,736 posts)
44. Trump is sadist. We can see this in how he loves to torment and harass people.
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 05:37 AM
Jul 22

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.

popsdenver

(70 posts)
16. Absolutely
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 11:23 AM
Jul 21

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

(68,901 posts)
26. We cannot
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 01:03 PM
Jul 21

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

(72,736 posts)
45. The net widens. First immigrant criminals, then all immigrants, next naturalized citizens.
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 05:41 AM
Jul 22

Then all of us born here in the US.

2naSalit

(97,397 posts)
12. Yup...
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 11:02 AM
Jul 21

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

(72,736 posts)
14. Yes Trump is furious that all Americans don't adore and even have the nerve to criticize him.
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 11:11 AM
Jul 21

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

bdamomma

(68,901 posts)
46. Stephen Miller
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 07:09 AM
Jul 22

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.

doc03

(38,179 posts)
7. Trump seems obsessed with torturing dogs. He is always threatening to treat someone
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 09:21 AM
Jul 21

like a dog, he has people eating them.

newdeal2

(3,460 posts)
8. No wonder they don't want any visitors or cameras
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 09:27 AM
Jul 21

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.

scarletlib

(3,550 posts)
9. Is there local sourcing for this story? Where are you Miami Herald?
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 10:08 AM
Jul 21

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.

Jack Valentino

(2,881 posts)
19. Disgusting, outrageous and unconscionable. Human rights be damned. "3000 a day" quota
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 12:07 PM
Jul 21

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

(98,677 posts)
30. The quota has nothing to do with "dangerous criminals" and everything to do with dehumanization
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 03:15 PM
Jul 21

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

(25,642 posts)
20. The international human rights organizations must condemn this and censure this administration for this cruelty
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 12:13 PM
Jul 21

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

Grins

(8,660 posts)
21. Imagine the hate they created in doing that.
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 12:42 PM
Jul 21

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???”

Torchlight

(5,188 posts)
23. We are becoming the very thing we used to fight against
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 12:48 PM
Jul 21

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

(68,901 posts)
24. Treating
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 12:56 PM
Jul 21

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,

Johnny2X2X

(23,105 posts)
31. Mass graves are sure to follow
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 03:19 PM
Jul 21

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?

barbtries

(30,613 posts)
34. omigawd.
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 04:39 PM
Jul 21

Last edited Mon Jul 21, 2025, 09:38 PM - Edit history (1)

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

(172,259 posts)
36. I hadn't heard that about Alcatraz being approved.
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 08:21 PM
Jul 21

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.

BidenRocks

(1,886 posts)
35. Human rights abuses go to the Hague, don't they?
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 06:19 PM
Jul 21

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!

FadedMullet

(359 posts)
40. I would hope that one of the questions that investigators would ask would be "Were they filmed eating like this and.....
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 11:21 PM
Jul 21

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

iemanja

(56,336 posts)
41. Hitler has been reborn
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 01:09 AM
Jul 22

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

DFW

(58,584 posts)
48. Brought to you by the same channel that brought you Abu Ghraib
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 07:25 AM
Thursday

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.

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