"Why does someone who overstayed their visa need to be held in shackles?

"Immigration detention is not a criminal procedure. And yet the Trump administration is treating it as a criminal punishment. It is using detention to inflict pain on anyone — immigrant or citizen — caught in its grasp. It is subjecting detainees to horrific conditions of deprivation and abuse, meant to pressure people into leaving the country, even if they have valid asylum claims or even legal status."

~ Jamelle Bouie

#Trump #DHS #ICE #cruelty #immigrants
/3

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/opinion/columnists/trump-immigrant-detention.html

"It’s as if we’re throwing people into overcrowded jails for the legal equivalent of failing to pay a credit-card bill or losing a lawsuit — immigration detention as the new debtors’ prison."

~ David French

#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #cruelty #immigrants #media
/4

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/opinion/mass-detention-immigration-court-ruling.html

"Why is this being allowed to continue?

These are some of the questions journalists should be raising as they step up their coverage of the inhumane treatment of potentially tens of thousands of people who have been caught up in Donald Trump’s brutal immigrant dragnet."

#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #cruelty #immigrants #media
/2

"Even worse still, we are subjecting human beings to extended confinement in detention facilities that — if human rights groups, detainees and whistle-blowers are to be believed — are often not up to the standards of America’s prisons or jails. They aren’t even up to the standards we set in my regiment for detaining suspected insurgents in Iraq."

#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #cruelty #immigrants #media
/5

"Immigration detention is not a criminal procedure. And yet the Trump administration is treating it as a criminal punishment. It is using detention to inflict pain on anyone — immigrant or citizen — caught in its grasp. It is subjecting detainees to horrific conditions of deprivation and abuse, meant to pressure people into leaving the country, even if they have valid asylum claims or even legal status."

~ Jamelle Bouie

#Trump #DHS #ICE #cruelty #immigrants
/3

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/opinion/columnists/trump-immigrant-detention.html

"Even worse still, we are subjecting human beings to extended confinement in detention facilities that — if human rights groups, detainees and whistle-blowers are to be believed — are often not up to the standards of America’s prisons or jails. They aren’t even up to the standards we set in my regiment for detaining suspected insurgents in Iraq."

#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #cruelty #immigrants #media
/5

"Just when you think Trump’s terror has reached rock bottom, the floor collapses even lower.

Status Coup producer Michelle Dao interviewed Migrant Insider editor Pablo Manríquez on the alarming, heartbreaking, and un-American story of the deportation of a SICK 2-MONTH-OLD newborn boy named Juan Nicolás (watch interview [embedded here])."

~ Jordan Chariton

#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #cruelty #immigrants #children
/6

https://www.statuscoupsubstack.com/p/trump-deports-sick-2-month-old-after

"Why does someone who overstayed their visa need to be held in shackles? Why does someone who isn’t a flight risk need to be indefinitely confined in a filthy overcrowded cell? Does any child belong in a prison camp? Does anybody at all deserve to be forced to sleep on a concrete floor, or underfed, or brutalized, or denied medical care?"

~ Dan Froomkin

#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #cruelty #immigrants #media
/1

https://criticalread.substack.com/p/the-inhumane-treatment-of-immigration

"Nicolás, along with hundreds of other children, was detained at the Dilley ICE prison in South Texas (the same ICE prison that recently had a Measles outbreak along with other diseases). Nicolás has been imprisoned there for a month—and sick inside for the last three weeks. …

Early this week, Nicolás was found unresponsive, 'choking on his own vomit,' according to his mother’s interview with N+ Univision’s Lidia Terrazas."

#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #cruelty #immigrants
/7

"But, despite ICE being gifted $75 billion dollars as part of President Trump’s 'One Big Beautiful' bill, when guards rushed Juan to the medical area of the ICE prison overnight—there was no doctor there."

#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #cruelty #immigrants #children
/8

@wdlindsy On the other hand.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Delvey#After_prison

"Why is this being allowed to continue?

These are some of the questions journalists should be raising as they step up their coverage of the inhumane treatment of potentially tens of thousands of people who have been caught up in Donald Trump’s brutal immigrant dragnet."

#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #cruelty #immigrants #media
/2

@wdlindsy

We've received a lot of advice to relentlessly contact our electeds... but I haven't seen anybody raising the notion of contacting our •media•, & I wonder if that would be a fruitful avenue for pressure?

@indivisibleteam

#USpol #Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #cruelty #immigrants #media

@wdlindsy On the other hand.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Delvey#After_prison

@wdlindsy Looking more and more like concentration camps with each passing day

"He was rushed to the hospital, where he was diagnosed with bronchitis. According to Congressman Joaquin Castro, while hospitalized Nicolás was still 'unresponsive'—yet he was released after just a few hours. The newborn, still in medical distress, was then deported to Mexico along with his 16-month old sister Mía, his father, and mother."

#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #cruelty #immigrants #children
/9

@ThePolishDispatch Con artists are so predictable, aren't they, and so disgusting?

"Why does someone who overstayed their visa need to be held in shackles? Why does someone who isn’t a flight risk need to be indefinitely confined in a filthy overcrowded cell? Does any child belong in a prison camp? Does anybody at all deserve to be forced to sleep on a concrete floor, or underfed, or brutalized, or denied medical care?"

~ Dan Froomkin

#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #cruelty #immigrants #media
/1

https://criticalread.substack.com/p/the-inhumane-treatment-of-immigration

"Why does someone who overstayed their visa need to be held in shackles? Why does someone who isn’t a flight risk need to be indefinitely confined in a filthy overcrowded cell? Does any child belong in a prison camp? Does anybody at all deserve to be forced to sleep on a concrete floor, or underfed, or brutalized, or denied medical care?"

~ Dan Froomkin

#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #cruelty #immigrants #media
/1

https://criticalread.substack.com/p/the-inhumane-treatment-of-immigration