Hey Congress, yesterday you passed a bill giving @ICEgov more money for immigration detention. Today @DHSOIG (DHS’s own watchdog) issued this horrifying report on a New Jersey ICE jail. Please read it. It explains where the money is going. 1/ oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/…
The money is going to needlessly incarcerate immigrants in jails that, according to @DHSOIG, violate ICE’s own standards and “represent significant threats to detainee health and safety.” Here’s what the OIG found at the Essex County Jail in NJ, which jails about 800 people: 2/
The food is appalling. Inspectors found packages of raw chicken leaking blood on refrigeration units. Meat served is raw, spoiled, or expired. People said the food caused vomiting and diarrhea. One person said the food “literally looks like it came from the garbage dumpster.” 3/
Inspectors found “leaking ceilings in … living areas, showers laced with mold and peeling paint, and dilapidated beds.” There were leaks in *every* housing unit. There is no outdoor recreation space. 4/
Essex isn’t an outlier. ICE jails are awful. And with every new dollar appropriated, ICE expands and opens new prisons, even more isolated and harmful. 5/ motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
How awful? So awful that people are abandoning their asylum claims and agreeing to deportation back to countries where they know they will be hurt or killed. Just to escape the hell that is the U.S. immigration detention system. #ShameonDetention 6/ immigrantjustice.org/staff/blog/est…
OIG keeps waving red flags about abuse and corruption in ICE’s jails. Its most recent report exposed that ICE hands out “waivers” to contractors to bypass safety and health protections. Congress: PLEASE START LISTENING. 7/ oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/…
Time to end detention. Time to rethink how this country welcomes migrants and asylum seekers and cares for ALL of our communities. 8/ #EndDetention #DefundHate immigrantjustice.org/index.php/staf…
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