The article highlights the deplorable conditions faced by detainees at an immigration detention center in Miami during the Trump administration. Accounts from multiple individuals recount experiences of overcrowding, inadequate access to basic needs such as water, and the psychological stress of confinement. One woman shared that detainees were often shackled during transport and suffered extreme cold and thirst. The reported conditions have raised serious concerns among lawyers and human rights advocates, urging for urgent reforms in immigration detention practices.
Hundreds of people swept up in the Trump administration's crackdown on immigration are being kept at an overcrowded detention center in Miami...conditions that lawyers, families, and former detainees told the Miami Herald was inhumane.
One woman, who spoke with the Miami Herald on the phone from Honduras, said she and fellow detainees were left in shackles and chains on buses overnight, so long that some urinated on themselves.
"It was cold like you can't imagine," said the woman... "Sometimes we spent hours screaming, 'We're thirsty, we're thirsty!'"
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