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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis monstrous administration put mentally ill, disabled and gay migrants
in solitary confinement - yes ICE did that - how does this differ from the Nazis?
These are crimes against humanity - who will stop these evil men (and women)?
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/thousands-immigrants-suffer-solitary-confinement-u-s-detention-centers-n1007881
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Dulce Rivera lived for the one hour a day she was allowed to walk outside on a patch of concrete surrounded by metal fencing.
The 36-year-old transgender woman from Central America was locked in solitary confinement at a New Mexico detention center that housed immigrants in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. For 23 hours a day, she remained alone in a cell, with no one to talk to and nothing to distract from her increasingly dark thoughts.
"You never know what day it is, what time it is," said Rivera, who has struggled with mental illness. "Sometimes you never see the sun."
Rivera was placed in isolation because of allegations, later determined to be unfounded, that she had kissed and touched other detainees, records show.
Nearly four weeks into her stint in solitary, she lost her will to live. She fashioned a noose from a torn blanket and hanged herself from the cell's ceiling vent only to be saved by a passing guard.
Rivera was rushed to a hospital. Upon her return to the detention center, she was labeled a suicide threat and placed back in solitary, under even more restrictions.
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Long but important
Bayard
(22,048 posts)OhNo-Really
(3,985 posts)The whistle blower tried for all those years to get this ICE inhuman treatment stopped
Al Franken & Grassley tried but I cant find any reports
She brought the evidence to NBC after exhausting all other options according to her own words
How could this happen under Obamas watch?
spanone
(135,816 posts)Yet totally believable with this cabal.
I feel such shame for what this country has become.
Nitram
(22,781 posts)lunamagica
(9,967 posts)SpankMe
(2,957 posts)By segregating gays and transgendered people "for their own protection" against the other detainees in the open population, they've just proven the detainee's asylum claim - that their lives are in jeopardy in their home countries due to their LGBT status.
Give these people asylum...now!