1y ago

The number of deaths in ICE custody is already more than double all of last year

www.nbcnews.com

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The article suggests that the issues occur most in private detention centers, and argues that ill detainees should be relocated to healthcare facilities. Private detention centers most certainly should be abolished, and not just for ICE detainees.
The article also states they have been 10 deaths in FY 2024 according to ICE.gov, however the website only shows 6. I’m guessing the website is not updated, but the article only identifies two deaths since January, making the total 8. I haven’t found information on the other two deaths reported elsewhere.
Here are the number of deaths by fiscal year from ICE.gov:
FY 2024 - 6 (10 reported by NBC)
FY 2023 - 4
FY 2022 - 3
FY 2021 - 5
FY 2020 - 21
FY 2019 - 8
FY 2018 - 6
www.ice.gov/detain/detainee-death-reporting
- Why are we keeping them in such poor conditions if they're already sick? Why aren't they in hospitals?
- The numbers are interesting and I bet the 2020 number is very high because of covid, but them comparing total deaths might be statistical deception.
  How old were the people who died? What were the causes of death? Did the total amount of people in detention stay consistent over time?
  According to the article, a few of the ones listed are pretty young, but they didn't show causes of death.
- Definitely nothing else that increased mortality happened in 2020 right?
Trump's next rally:
"I can do better!"
- Crazy thought, but maybe it's not the President in charge. Maybe it's the record high heat and the deplorable conditions of confinement.
  Maybe we shouldn't be holding these people in concentration camps to begin with.
  
  Maybe the president should have tackled the bad conditions in ICE detainment like he promised? He promised a more fair and humane system after Trump's abuses of detainees and instead he's treated Trump's conditions as a record to beat.
  
  ICE is controlled by the department of Homeland Security, which is under the executive branch. As we remember from civics class, the president is directly responsible for the executive branch. The president is responsible for the atrocities at the border.
You'd think that would make Republicans like Biden...
- Yeah, sorry, four years of Trump vs. four years of Biden should really have put to rest the idea that both parties are the same, even if they sometimes support the same bad policies.
The general lack of empathy for these people is disgusting.
5, 3, 4,then 10 deaths in the past four years including 2024, all inmates were given medical and dental, psychological support and there are two causes of death of in the article unknown, which is probably the most cause for concern.
I looked it up.
The two unknown are undergoing investigations now, standard practice in ICE to investigate cause of death
8 of the deaths since 2018 resulted from covid in at-risk populations, 9 from suicide, which I think is a little higher than the american average of 14 per 100,000 people, but some of these people left notes saying that if they might be sent back then they're going to kill themselves, so... More high stakes, more pressure in a lot of these situations obviously.
Most of the covid deaths were in high risk patients, the elderly or chronically ill with kidney issues or the like.
- It looks like they just wanted to say double the deaths and hope somebody gasped.
10 deaths versus 4.
Lies, damned lies, and statistics....
Build The Wall Back Better, my harm reduction vote in action :')
Biden is worthy successor to George W Bush.
Of course it is. Democrats either do the right thing and appear soft on immigrants right before election l, or they do the wrong thing and these sick fucks get to have fun continuing to torture and kill people. It’s really. A win-win for them.
Hmm...I don't want to read the article, but I'm pretty sure it's not Internal Combustion Engine...
From context, it seems like it must be... Immigrant Containment Encampments?
- In-Car Entertainment if I remember correctly
Pigs thrive in environments that encourage violence
All of North America should have freedom of movement and trade. We can make the border the Panama canal so things are nice and simple.

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