60 Men, one toilet: Lawmaker describes conditions inside ICE facility
Sixty men, one toilet, no showers, and $75 billion in federal funding that provides Sec. Noem two private airplanes.
Congressperson Jamie Raskin (D-MD) paid the ICE facility in Baltimore a surprise visit. What he found was “disgraceful. “
Raskin found 60 men packed into a single room, with only one toilet and no showers. The inhuman conditions also involved sleeping with a simple aluminum foil survival blanket. There is no word of what the food is like, but we can be sure you or I would not want to eat it.
“[DHS Secretary] Kristi Noem has a budget of $75 billion she could use to ensure humane conditions, but we saw 60 men packed into a room shoulder-to-shoulder, 24-hours-a-day, with a single toilet in the room and no shower facilities,” Raskin said. “They sleep like sardines with aluminum foil blankets.”
Conditions inside ICE detention facilities have been hotly debated since President Donald Trump’s deportation crackdown began early last year. The Department of Homeland Security also revised its visitation policy for Congressional lawmakers to require at least seven days’ notice before a visit could occur, a move that a federal judge ruled in early February was illegal.
Raskin said the conditions would force lawmakers to demand “immediate answers and actions.”
Sixty men, one toilet, no showers, and $75 billion in federal funding that provides Sec. Noem two private airplanes. The cruelty isn’t accidental; it’s a grift.