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malaise

(268,887 posts)
Tue May 21, 2019, 09:49 AM May 2019

This 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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This monstrous administration put mentally ill, disabled and gay migrants (Original Post) malaise May 2019 OP
When does the waterboarding start? Bayard May 2019 #1
OMG! The report covers 2012-2016! Obama's watch OhNo-Really May 2019 #4
Unbelievable. spanone May 2019 #2
Yes, "monstrous" is the right word. Nitram May 2019 #3
K&R for visibility lunamagica May 2019 #5
Abnormally stupid - even for ICE SpankMe May 2019 #6

OhNo-Really

(3,985 posts)
4. OMG! The report covers 2012-2016! Obama's watch
Tue May 21, 2019, 11:20 AM
May 2019

The whistle blower tried for all those years to get this ICE inhuman treatment stopped

Al Franken & Grassley tried but I can’t find any reports

She brought the evidence to NBC after exhausting all other options according to her own words

How could this happen under Obama’s watch?

spanone

(135,816 posts)
2. Unbelievable.
Tue May 21, 2019, 10:44 AM
May 2019

Yet totally believable with this cabal.

I feel such shame for what this country has become.

SpankMe

(2,957 posts)
6. Abnormally stupid - even for ICE
Tue May 21, 2019, 03:34 PM
May 2019

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!

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