"It's a bunch of temporary tents. There's probably room for a thousand detainees in each tent. I believe there's like five tents. I've been locked in the same room now for four and a half months. I've had barely any outside time, no fresh air, no sunshine. I could probably count on both hands the amount of times I've been outside. So I've just been locked in this room all day, every day."
"We get three meals a day, very, very small meals, kid-sized meals. So everybody's hungry, everybody's tired. We've no commissary, we've got no options to get extra food or anything like that. The conditions here are filled. The toilets, the showers, completely nasty, very rarely cleaned."
"I'm in fear for my life now here, honestly, because people are being killed by the staff here, by the security staff, you know? And you just don't know what's going to happen on a day-to-day basis. You don't if there's going"
Seamus Culleton, an Irish national with a valid U.S. work permit, married to an American citizen, and nearly 20 years in the United States, was detained by ICE after a traffic stop in September 2025 despite having no criminal record and being in the final stages of receiving a green card. He has spent nearly five months at an El Paso detention facility characterized by temporary tents housing many detainees, prolonged confinement with minimal outdoor time, very small meals and no commissary, unsanitary toilets and showers, and allegations of violence by security staff including claims of detainee deaths.
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