Due process and good conditions are apparently not the norm at the ICE Detention Facility in Eloy Arizona.
Brutality and the mentality of a secret police state seem to be.
According to this video from the Copper Courier, Tempe Resident Jose Camacho had no idea for weeks that his wife and mother of his children, Vilma Villabos, had been detained by ICE in their Eloy Detention Facility.
According to the reporting, Villabos, who was lived in this country since she was two weeks old and does not, according to her husband, speak Spanish, was able to send a letter to Camacho after three months, notifying him of her situation.
Aside from briefly seeing her at a hearing today, Camacho has not been able to visit his wife. Mr. Camacho also said efforts to straighten out his wife’s immigration situation were difficult because the “system was broken” because of “all the hoops they have to go through.”
How is this America where a wife and mother is taken off the street and disappeared for months before being able to tell her loved ones. Where was the due process that was her constitutional right? Why were her husband and children made to suffer, wondering everyday where their wife and mother was, especially since she apparently has no criminal record.
At the same time Camacho was telling journalists about his wife’s undeserved plight, Arizona House Congressional Three District Representative Yassamin Ansari also made the journey to ICE Detention Center in Eloy and reported on the harsh conditions the women detainees were subjected to including being forced to walk in extreme heat for two hours without water and being mocked with comments like “This is the price for the American Dream.”
The Representative’s full comments are below:
“I came today traveled from Phoenix to Eloy to visit the Eloy Detention Center. With the Trump Administrations. extreme mass deportation policies and the ramp up of deportations in Arizona and across the United States. I felt it was extremely important to see firsthand why and where people and detainees are being held. The most alarming part of what I saw and experience was actually direct testimony from the women that we spoke to and what we heard from them was extremely alarming about the conditions in terms of how they are being treated by the staff and the officers at the Eloy Detention Center. One specific example that multiple women verified was that one month ago, one of the officers and they pointed to him that this gentleman forced everyone outside in the heat and had them walk around for what felt like two hours without water and said things like ‘this is the price of the American Dream.’ One woman fainted during this episode and 50 other women allegedly, according to their stories, made a report about it. They did say that since we were in the room, the atmosphere at lunch was much different than it usually is. They may very clear that, typically, they’re being yelled at. They’re being rushed, they’re being demeaned, and because we may have been in the room that perhaps the attention and the treatment was a little bit different.”
She later released another video post where she went into more detail including revealing that women detainees were denied air conditioning.
Did not the Nazis try to put a good face on what they were doing in the Concentration Camps during World War Two whenever the Red Cross visited.
It seems the ICE Gestapo officers and their superiors have learned that lesson.
None of this should be surprising given the Trump family separation policy in his first term and the many innocents detained and deported to places like El Salvador and the Sudan without any firm evidence of any crimes they are accused of committing.
They are even in the process of deporting a four year old immigrant who is in this country receiving life saving care. How f–ked up is that?
These Gestapo-Fascist tactics are not making America safer or deporting actual criminals.
It is all about ICE officers making quota financial bonuses and MAGA leaders endeavoring to make America whiter again.
Anything else Donald Trump or his apostates say about this is, as always, very probably a lie.
The great majority of the people of America are better than this and should contact their leaders to put a stop to these unconstitutional and, yes, criminal acts.
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