#immigrant-detention

#immigrant-detention

no beds, no showers, no heat, vending machine food at best.

No fewer than a dozen elected officials people chosen by the voters to seats in government to represent their interests came to 26 Federal Plaza on Thursday seeking answers about ICE's treatment of immigrant detainees being held there. They were not only denied entry to the 10th-floor holding area, where many detainees are supposedly being held despite ICE's continued denials, but the lawmakers also staged a protest over the federal agency's continued obfuscation about the fate of the immigrants in its custody.

Until his monumental new film, Paul Thomas Anderson had only made a single narrative feature set in the 21st century, and that movie - a love story about a plunger salesman who hoards pudding cups, gets extorted by the owner of a phone sex line, and shares an iconic kiss to the sound of a Shelley Duvall song from 1980 - was less of its time than out of it.

"Alligator Alcatraz"

Mattresses on the floor, next to bunk beds, in meeting rooms and gymnasiums. No access to a bathroom or drinking water. Hourlong lines to buy food at the commissary or to make a phone call. These are some of the conditions described by lawyers and the people held at immigrant detention facilities around the country over the last few months. The number of detained immigrants surpassed a record 60,000 this month.

The report documents conditions for detained immigrants at Florida's Krome North Service Processing Center, Broward Transitional Center, and Federal Detention Center, alleging flagrant violations of international human rights.