Inside a Virginia ICE office: One meal a day, 40 people in a room and no bathing for days
Inside a Virginia ICE office: One meal a day, 40 people in a room and no bathing for days
Inside a Virginia ICE office: One meal a day, 40 people in a room and no bathing for days
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/26767060
The conditions include one meal a day that consists of a single burrito, some 40 to 90 people at a time crammed into a single room with no beds, and some detainees held as long as seven days with no ability to bathe, according to accounts shared with MSNBC by attorneys and a family member of a person being detained.
“They just give us one burrito with water,” said the immigrant, who already had an active immigration case when he was picked up. His father spent at least six days at the Chantilly ICE office and also was given one burrito per day, and the crowding was so severe that his father had to sleep sitting up at times, the son told MSNBC.
You will never convince me that's not some overtly racist intentional cruelty.
It's actually a tactic ICE has used for years. Treat detainees as horrendously as is legal (or worse, if there are no consequences). Most importantly, the entire time ICE will dangle in front of them paperwork that they can sign to consent to deportation without any process.
It's just a coercion tactic to avoid due process.
It's partly that I'm sure and also to dehumanize them further. It's not mentioned in the article but I would imagine they aren't given silverware and have to eat with their hands. In american culture it is often seen as a lowly/animalistic thing to eat with your hands*. So they can continue to see them as not human because they "don't eat like one".
*see the republican reaction to mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani doing so.
What are you talking about? Americans eat with their hands all the time. Sandwiches, hot dogs, hamburgers, corn on the cob, pizza, and yes, burritos. I can almost guarantee every one of those ICE agents eats multiple meals a week with their hands. Are you even American?
They're being abused because they're being deprived food, not because they aren't given a cloth napkin and a set of utensils to eat a burrito.