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NEW: We obtained recordings of 160+ emergency calls made from or about an immigration detention center where three people died within six weeks. “They will not give them medical treatment,” one caller said, seeking help for a detainee with kidney stones.

propublica.orgListen to 911 Calls From Inside an Immigration Detention Center: “We Just Need to Take Him to the Hospital”Reporters don’t have access to Camp East Montana, one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country. Emergency calls from the Texas facility offer a glimpse of unfolding crises faced by ...

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Absolutely Hope. Deep gratitude to everyone who had to hear these horrors and still showed up with compassion, courage, and professionalism. Their hard work and humanity deserve to be recognized and appreciated.

DONT look away! Nobody is coming to save us or them. Speak out. Call Congress. Support those fighting for due process and humanity with the ACLU & Democracy Forward & a free independent press. Support those who break thru the Foxnews BS & the gaslighting. THIS IS WRONG. Peaceful protests matter. ACT

This is how billionaires who cozy up to Trump do business. All of these fucking greedy grifters need to be investigated, indicted and tried.

We should be better than this. Release these individuals who are not the “worse of the worse”. They’re just innocent immigrants trying to make a living and a better life for their families. They help with farming, construction, hotel industry, they are researchers, students, teachers, engineers.

Impeachment takes 2/3 of the Senate to convict. It's unlikely the Democrats will win that many seats, and almost as unlikely enough Republicans will defect. Impeachment and removal would also put JD Vance in the White House, not a great outcome. I'd prefer impeachment, but of both Trump and Vance.

If business as usual is what you want, keep on doing what you’re doing. If you want to stop this horror show, step 1 is voting for Dems. There’s another 20+ steps after that, but none of them will matter if you dont do the first step. And your post isnt helping get step 1 done.

Can we organize enough people to show up and bust them out? I know I'm just one person, but I'm sick to my stomach about the idea that while I'm in my home people are being tortured and neglected and left to die in this country. I want this to stop HOW DO I STOP THIS?!

The Geneva convention requires prisoners of war to receive humane treatment including medical care. The 5th amendment says that civil detainment (those not charged with a crime) must be non-punitive and provide for basic human needs.

The US will forever be compared with the methods of Nazi Germany for "population control." It may be impossible to repair the damage this is doing to the innocent and to our national reputation. Failure to prosecute will indicate we are OK with this.

“some were growing so desperate that they were having friends and relatives call 911 to seek medical help on their behalf.”

Heartless. Cold-blooded. Inhumane. Wicked. Cruel. Brutal. Merciless. Callous. Vicious. Savage. Barbaric. These people are not “the worst of the worst”. They are cannon-fodder to feed the blood lust of Trump.

This is so HORRIFYING‼️ I TRULY CAN'T HANDLE WATCHING THE TORTURE & CRIMINALITY AGAINST These INNOCENT HUMAN BEINGS‼️If I had the Wherewithal, I'd destroy ALL of these ILLEGAL FACILITIES & ensure the ones who are soooo WRONGLY INCARCERATED, are set FREE FOREVER & A DAY & Compensated for their TORTURE‼️

Our ‘government’ is a farce. Checks and balances? Almost nonexistent. Lawsuits are pending, minimal efforts when it comes to preventing the torture and death caused by ICE. Legacy media is now a joke, independent media has been doing what they can. When do we hit rock bottom?

They pull up on these people like someone wanted for a triple homicide! They committed a fucking misdemeanor and are escaping conditions unimaginable to these Faux Newsmax junkie, entitled , soulless, pieces of shit with a badge.

Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Ask a MAGAt and they’ll justify it by saying they broke the law, people die in prisons every day, they’re lying about the conditions etc and whatever else they can come up with to justify these horrible crimes against humanity. 😡

The question is: will Americans get their arses up before they add gas chambers and crematoria or will you ignore the whole thing like the Germans did all those years ago? Literally nobody will believe anybody who says they didn't know anything.

this, and other such stories, are painting a picture of ice agents as having the most sadistic pathologies in american society ... it's almost like it's a requirement for employment

WE MUST STAND UP AND FIGHT THIS EVIL UGLINESS WITH OUR VOICES AND OUR VOTES! PEOPLE IN NUMBERS WILL DO THE TRICK! WE MUST "DRAIN THE SWAMP FULL OF FACISTS" AND BRING OUR COUNTRY BACK TO DEMOCRACY! ARE YOU WITH ME?

If you have ever experienced Kidney Stone pain, then you know just how horrible and painful they are - the WORST. Seriously & NO exaggeration, the absolute worst pain imaginable. These stories can literally bring one to tears. Fuck ICE. Fuck this admin. Fuck tRump. Fuck SCOTUS.

Can confirm. Genuinely thought I was dying when I got one as a late teen. I only had to suffer for 30-40 mins before 💉💉💉. I once would have said 'I would not wish that amount of pain on anyone'. Seriously rethinking this position tbh 🤬

I live in Devils Lake, ND where inmates at the jail have had to do the exact same thing to get medical care. No matter your status as a U.S. cittizen when you are incarcerated you are in the care, custody & control of the state. "State" being either the Fed, or literal state, which is responsible.

When this national nightmare is over, we must DEMAND accountability. Every ICE/CBP/DHS employee, every private camp CEO and employee, and every cabinet member/shadow cabinet members need to be investigated. There needs to be jail sentences handed out for this.

Has anyone reported exactly HOW MANY of these "centers" there are, WHERE they're located & most importantly, HOW/IF THEY DIFFER FROM CONCENTRATION CAMPS? IF these "centers" are actually concentration camps then why isn't the media & everyone else calling them CONCENTRATION CAMPS?

They are death camps as the evil regime is deliberately killing (via torture and other means) or letting people die (via neglect or denial of medical treatment) on a regular basis.

Same corrupt, evil regime is cutting programs for the general population and letting infectious diseases spread as they poison our food and water with cancer-causing forever chemicals and cause inflation while giving more money to their rich donors

This is Trump and Miller’s American Holocaust. Call this shit what it is. They are seeking erasure of black & brown people in this country based on racist, eugenic beliefs. All of their blather about “immigration laws” is just them engaging in sophistry to justify & enable their genocidal vision. 

Murderers and rapists are treated much better in federal and state prisons while these migrants are treated like animals by these rogue ICE agents! Immigration is a civil matter and not treated as a criminal matter!

Providing medical care to prisoners who they don't even see as truly human would cut into their profits. Of course they aren't going to properly feed or care for the unfortunate people they cage. Concentration camps and prisons should never be for profit as the incentives created are pure evil.

Concentration torture pens of human beings. Where probably 85-90% are just innocent individuals. Children are the most innocent. The new U.S. considers them dangerous? We are destroying their child years and probably late in life. Unforgivable that we are now cold blooded kidnappers and murders! USA

May this suffering be returned 100 fold on every MAGA who delights in it. And if you call yourself a Christian and you don't care about this, just know that you are going to hell, and in your belief system, that's for eternity.

Why the hell do we have concentration camps in America anyway?? We know the people are innocent, especially the children! We are worse than 1930 Nazis in Germany! I visited one of those places in Germany in 1979. I couldn’t believe how they treated human beings. Now I see it in my own country!

ICE holds $10K singing contracts with every ICE thug. Thug donesn't serve 5 years, they pay it back. A trap to ensure loyalty. If the org is abolished, those debts are wiped clean. Keep the org, fire all the thugs. ICE's new purpose will be wage garnishment for the most violent bigots we have.

Isn’t it time to do something effective already?

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The lawsuits, court rulings, protests and the performative politicians have really accomplished little or nothing to limit these round-ups. As many as 70K people are in "ICE detention camps" currently. Current estimates: 15–16 million undocumented persons present in the US. #ICE

WTF people? How can this be happening in the US? Democrats must take the House & Senate. Thomas & Alito at the very least must be impeached; & real justices appointed & confirmed. We can’t continue with a corrupt DOJ, GOP, SCOTUS & White House. How can close to 1/3 of US citizens vote for this 💩?

Not one cent should go to any of these detention camps until there is a full reform of how people are treated within the camps. Every R who voted for this funding needs to be out. Susan Collins comes to mind.

During President Donald Trump's second term, federal immigration officials—including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents—have shot at least 29 to 41 people during enforcement operations, resulting in at least 8 to 11 fatalities.

What happened to American Exceptionalism? I grew up believing that we cared about people, we were always eager to help strangers. Were we lied to? Or, did alien perverts take over who believe only in cruelty and torture? I liked the only hype better.

Hey, propublica, do you ever find yourself -- when writing your headlines -- thinking, "all these 'detention' camps that keep law-abiding Americans and non-violent immigrants (plenty in the citizenship process), operated by dark money and state police, seems pretty un-American and pro-fascist." Eh?

If citizens federal tax dollars are going to private prisons ... ✔️we get to know ✔️any and everything that's going on with those prisons or ✔️we cut your funding off .... fucking YESTERDAY NO EXCEPTIONS.

Correction: Large ICE detention centers are confirmed in TX, FL, AZ, CA, NJ, WA, CO, GA, LA, NM, NY & Puerto Rico. And “Camp East Montana” is NOT in Montana—it’s at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas. GAO says it’s ICE’s largest detention facility, with capacity for about 5,000 people.