“Policy by Design“
“This is modern-day slavery supported by a failing immigration system and an administration that is not interested in fixing it.”
“They don’t care if people die. I think they’re encouraging it in a way, by neglecting so many people and refusing to give them the care they need when they’re in such severe pain.”
A detainee, Emmanuel Damas, who needlessly died from a toothache after ICE and CoreCivic officials allowed his condition to morph to a point where he had a bulge “the size of a potato” and could not sleep at night.
Other detainees described the medical team at the Florence Detention Center with just one word: “Fatal.”
“I met with my constituent, Arbella Yaddy Rodriguez Marquez (at the Eloy Detention Center), who has leukemia and has also endured severe medical negligence at the hands of ICE. The only positive news that I can report there is that Yaddy is getting better medication since our advocacy and she can now walk with the help of a walker again.
The ligaments in her arms and her legs are still feeling the impacts of months of medical neglect. Outside doctors are still testing her for a variety of conditions, such as lupus, lymphedema, leukemia, and arthritis. One alarming detail that is new is that she’s grown small dark spots all over her back and stomach.”
“Dirty clothes at the facility.”
“Medical neglect” where none of the staff “has a heart” and “don’t care.”
“Detainees have to fight for ice that they let melt because that is their only source of filtered water.”
“A 26-year-old Armenian man we spoke to has been waiting for over a year for dental care.He has a tooth infection and could very well be the next Emmanuel Damas.”
“46-year-old Felipe. who has lived and paid taxes in Phoenix for more than 20 years. He has no criminal record, and this administration will not offer him any pathways for legal work. And today, he’s still an undocumented worker, but working for a U.S. prison at two dollars an hour. But he doesn’t deserve drinking water?”
“…An Iranian asylum seeker today who fled here with his daughter during Iran’s 2022 protest movement. He’s terrified of being sent back to Iran, where he could be killed by the regime, but described being treated as quote animals in ice custody…”
“A young LGBTQ plus Russian man who said he’d been threatened with rape if he didn’t sign self-deportation papers.”
These are the words of Arizona Representative Yassamin Ansari, who traveled to both the Florence and Eloy Detention Centers-American Concentration Camps on March 20.
During her two trips, Representative Ansari and her team interviewed many detainees, all of them not guilty of any serious crime, who reported on inhumane conditions at these facilities.
In her postings, the Congresswoman said:
“These private prison companies are making record profits, billions of dollars, and they’re expanding across the country. Already, there’s been over 40 deaths since the second Trump administration has taken office…”
“The Trump administration only cares about making private prison companies richer. Just this week, it was reported that Corey Lewandowski, the top aide for outgoing DHS Secretary Kristine Noem, sought payments from companies seeking contracts with the Department of Homeland Security.”
“I’m working on new legislation as we speak to investigate and to stop this astounding corruption. The Trump administration is wasting billions of your taxpayer dollars torturing and killing innocent people in the process. Meanwhile, Americans cannot afford housing, health care, or child care.
But instead of funding any of these things, Donald Trump and Republicans ripped away Medicaid from millions of Americans and handed $75 billion to ICE. DHS and ICE cannot and should not expand in Arizona, period. Every time I visit these detention facilities, it brings me to tears.
It’s sickening, it’s traumatizing, and it is deeply, deeply anti-American.”
Representative Ansari is right.
What is going on in these American Concentration camps should send a shiver down the spine of every American.
People are suffering while Mr. Trump and his allies in the private prison industry are profiting off the suffering of innocent people.
This is not the America we were taught to revere and admire, and the creatures that support this Nazi-type agenda have no business being in elected office.
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