gimmesometruth27 said:

Get_Right said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

But don’t you dare call them death camps. Tell that to the families of the ones who have died.

Record deaths in US immigration custody expose systemic failures

Families, advocates and lawmakers say poor care, opaque investigations and bureaucracy leave deaths unexplained

The circumstances of many of the record number of deaths in US immigration custody under the second Trump administration have left loved ones often searching in vain for answers amid a lack of transparency over key investigations.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reports mandated by Congress, autopsy reports and 911 calls collected by the Guardian raise questions about the quality of medical care, allegedly inadequate or haphazard responses to emergencies, and contraction of diseases and infections inside detention facilities that in some cases contributed to detainee deaths.

Families and their attorneys, as well as immigration advocates and Democratic elected officials have struggled to navigate a bureaucratic labyrinth of multiple federal agencies, local medical examiners and coroners, walled-off detention facilities, and, in some cases, local law enforcement, to obtain answers about the many deaths.

Just in the last week, Afghan asylum seeker Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal, 41, who had worked with US special forces in military operations in his home country, died in ICE custody in Texas, and then 19-year-old Royer Perez-Jimenez, from Mexico, died in what ICE has called a “presumed suicide” at a facility in Florida. He became the youngest to die in ICE custody since Donald Trump returned to the White House and it brought the figure of known deaths in ICE custody during this administration to 42.

Veronica Escobar, a Texas congresswoman, said the maze of local and federal agencies and facilities, as well as private contractors operating detention facilities is a “massive problem”.

“It’s a quagmire created by choice … This is not how things should work,” she said.

Escobar’s district covers El Paso in west Texas, where Camp East Montana was built on the Fort Bliss army base last summer to hold up to 5,000 detainees in tents as the largest immigration facility in the US.

Escobar and fellow Democrats have joined advocates and protesters calling for the closure of Camp East Montana, where the ACLU and others have alleged poor conditions and abuse of detainees. Several deaths have occurred at the camp.

And nationwide, there have been six suicides in immigration custody in the last 13 months – the most in a 13-month period in the last eight years, according to the limited US government records available.

The 42 deaths occurred among those detained in facilities scattered coast to coast, where almost 70,000 immigrants are now locked up – more than any time in US immigration history. The Trump administration is rushing to expand detention further with plans to convert warehouses in several states.

Escobar said to the Guardian in a telephone interview that the deaths across the US are “alarming and incredibly tragic”.

“The federal government is failing miserably either through incompetence or abject cruelty and neglect,” she said.

As more are detained, the death toll rises.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which includes ICE, was sent detailed questions and requests for comment and has responded.

“There has been NO spike in deaths. Consistent with data over the last decade, death rates in custody are 0.009% of the detained population,” an unnamed DHS spokesperson said.

DHS did not provide a source for the figure it cited in its response. The statement continued: “As bed space has rapidly expanded, we have maintained higher standard (sic) of care than most prisons that hold US citizens – including providing access to proper medical care. For many illegal aliens this is the best healthcare they have received their entire lives.”

DHS’s response to questions for this story included pointing out the criminal histories of some of the detainees who have died. Others who have died have no criminal past.

Government data shows that detainees with no criminal histories make up the largest portion of those in ICE detention, a total that peaked at more than 70,000 this January, a fresh record. Breaching immigration law is a civil offense, not criminal.

Austin Kocher, an assistant research professor at Syracuse University and an immigration data and policy expert, posted on BlueSky: “ICE detention deaths are now occurring at a rate of roughly one every four days. Three weeks ago that rate was one every six days. The pace is accelerating, and Congress has not launched a single investigation.”

In early January 2026, Victor Manuel Diaz, 36, was arrested by ICE in a Minneapolis suburb for being in the US illegally. On 14 January, he was found dead inside a medical clinic at Camp East Montana, where ICE said his death was presumed to be a suicide, and the official cause was under investigation.

However, members of Diaz’s family told the Associated Press that they are suspicious of the idea that he took his own life because he was not depressed and was about to be reunited with his mother and other relatives upon being deported to Nicaragua. Like so many other bereaved loved ones, they are waiting and hoping to hear more that would explain the loss of their relative.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/21/ice-deaths-trump-administration

42 vs. 6,000,000. Yeah that is great comparative support. Keep up the hyperbole. Not even close.

false equivalency. you are talking about numbers in a matter of months and generalizing over the entire time the nazis were in power before and DURING A WORLD WAR. a more apt comparison, which you undoubtably know, would be to compare what has happened this year with the first year the nazis controlled the german government. it takes time to commit atrocities. it takes time for the public to accept and be desensitized to the escalation in cruelty. you are smarter than this post.

seanwon said:

gimmesometruth27 said:

Get_Right said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

But don’t you dare call them death camps. Tell that to the families of the ones who have died.

Record deaths in US immigration custody expose systemic failures

Families, advocates and lawmakers say poor care, opaque investigations and bureaucracy leave deaths unexplained

The circumstances of many of the record number of deaths in US immigration custody under the second Trump administration have left loved ones often searching in vain for answers amid a lack of transparency over key investigations.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reports mandated by Congress, autopsy reports and 911 calls collected by the Guardian raise questions about the quality of medical care, allegedly inadequate or haphazard responses to emergencies, and contraction of diseases and infections inside detention facilities that in some cases contributed to detainee deaths.

Families and their attorneys, as well as immigration advocates and Democratic elected officials have struggled to navigate a bureaucratic labyrinth of multiple federal agencies, local medical examiners and coroners, walled-off detention facilities, and, in some cases, local law enforcement, to obtain answers about the many deaths.

Just in the last week, Afghan asylum seeker Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal, 41, who had worked with US special forces in military operations in his home country, died in ICE custody in Texas, and then 19-year-old Royer Perez-Jimenez, from Mexico, died in what ICE has called a “presumed suicide” at a facility in Florida. He became the youngest to die in ICE custody since Donald Trump returned to the White House and it brought the figure of known deaths in ICE custody during this administration to 42.

Veronica Escobar, a Texas congresswoman, said the maze of local and federal agencies and facilities, as well as private contractors operating detention facilities is a “massive problem”.

“It’s a quagmire created by choice … This is not how things should work,” she said.

Escobar’s district covers El Paso in west Texas, where Camp East Montana was built on the Fort Bliss army base last summer to hold up to 5,000 detainees in tents as the largest immigration facility in the US.

Escobar and fellow Democrats have joined advocates and protesters calling for the closure of Camp East Montana, where the ACLU and others have alleged poor conditions and abuse of detainees. Several deaths have occurred at the camp.

And nationwide, there have been six suicides in immigration custody in the last 13 months – the most in a 13-month period in the last eight years, according to the limited US government records available.

The 42 deaths occurred among those detained in facilities scattered coast to coast, where almost 70,000 immigrants are now locked up – more than any time in US immigration history. The Trump administration is rushing to expand detention further with plans to convert warehouses in several states.

Escobar said to the Guardian in a telephone interview that the deaths across the US are “alarming and incredibly tragic”.

“The federal government is failing miserably either through incompetence or abject cruelty and neglect,” she said.

As more are detained, the death toll rises.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which includes ICE, was sent detailed questions and requests for comment and has responded.

“There has been NO spike in deaths. Consistent with data over the last decade, death rates in custody are 0.009% of the detained population,” an unnamed DHS spokesperson said.

DHS did not provide a source for the figure it cited in its response. The statement continued: “As bed space has rapidly expanded, we have maintained higher standard (sic) of care than most prisons that hold US citizens – including providing access to proper medical care. For many illegal aliens this is the best healthcare they have received their entire lives.”

DHS’s response to questions for this story included pointing out the criminal histories of some of the detainees who have died. Others who have died have no criminal past.

Government data shows that detainees with no criminal histories make up the largest portion of those in ICE detention, a total that peaked at more than 70,000 this January, a fresh record. Breaching immigration law is a civil offense, not criminal.

Austin Kocher, an assistant research professor at Syracuse University and an immigration data and policy expert, posted on BlueSky: “ICE detention deaths are now occurring at a rate of roughly one every four days. Three weeks ago that rate was one every six days. The pace is accelerating, and Congress has not launched a single investigation.”

In early January 2026, Victor Manuel Diaz, 36, was arrested by ICE in a Minneapolis suburb for being in the US illegally. On 14 January, he was found dead inside a medical clinic at Camp East Montana, where ICE said his death was presumed to be a suicide, and the official cause was under investigation.

However, members of Diaz’s family told the Associated Press that they are suspicious of the idea that he took his own life because he was not depressed and was about to be reunited with his mother and other relatives upon being deported to Nicaragua. Like so many other bereaved loved ones, they are waiting and hoping to hear more that would explain the loss of their relative.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/21/ice-deaths-trump-administration

42 vs. 6,000,000. Yeah that is great comparative support. Keep up the hyperbole. Not even close.

false equivalency. you are talking about numbers in a matter of months and generalizing over the entire time the nazis were in power before and DURING A WORLD WAR. a more apt comparison, which you undoubtably know, would be to compare what has happened this year with the first year the nazis controlled the german government. it takes time to commit atrocities. it takes time for the public to accept and be desensitized to the escalation in cruelty. you are smarter than this post.

Disclaimer: The primary user of this account no longer posts personal opinions here. They post facts, tough questions, videos and provocative statements, sometimes controversial, meant for the purpose of gathering information for use in the upcoming midterm elections. Nothing is to be taken personally

42? 14% of which are suicides? ok. 

42. 36 minus suicides. Now let's think about the total crime committed by millions of illegals and total tax dollars spent on the millions of them to the 36.  What is the bigger problem?  

Also, if anyone is trying to compare tRump deporting illegals, and 36 of them dying in custody to Hitler intentionally killing 6 million people.....well, now would be a good time to do 2 things.
1 - stop commenting on other people's intelligence, you need to possess it to do that
2 - just be quiet and stop embarrassing yourself...you are indoctrinated...you are conflating education for intelligence. A serious problem amongst leftists.

seanwon said:

gimmesometruth27 said:

Get_Right said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

But don’t you dare call them death camps. Tell that to the families of the ones who have died.

Record deaths in US immigration custody expose systemic failures

Families, advocates and lawmakers say poor care, opaque investigations and bureaucracy leave deaths unexplained

The circumstances of many of the record number of deaths in US immigration custody under the second Trump administration have left loved ones often searching in vain for answers amid a lack of transparency over key investigations.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reports mandated by Congress, autopsy reports and 911 calls collected by the Guardian raise questions about the quality of medical care, allegedly inadequate or haphazard responses to emergencies, and contraction of diseases and infections inside detention facilities that in some cases contributed to detainee deaths.

Families and their attorneys, as well as immigration advocates and Democratic elected officials have struggled to navigate a bureaucratic labyrinth of multiple federal agencies, local medical examiners and coroners, walled-off detention facilities, and, in some cases, local law enforcement, to obtain answers about the many deaths.

Just in the last week, Afghan asylum seeker Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal, 41, who had worked with US special forces in military operations in his home country, died in ICE custody in Texas, and then 19-year-old Royer Perez-Jimenez, from Mexico, died in what ICE has called a “presumed suicide” at a facility in Florida. He became the youngest to die in ICE custody since Donald Trump returned to the White House and it brought the figure of known deaths in ICE custody during this administration to 42.

Veronica Escobar, a Texas congresswoman, said the maze of local and federal agencies and facilities, as well as private contractors operating detention facilities is a “massive problem”.

“It’s a quagmire created by choice … This is not how things should work,” she said.

Escobar’s district covers El Paso in west Texas, where Camp East Montana was built on the Fort Bliss army base last summer to hold up to 5,000 detainees in tents as the largest immigration facility in the US.

Escobar and fellow Democrats have joined advocates and protesters calling for the closure of Camp East Montana, where the ACLU and others have alleged poor conditions and abuse of detainees. Several deaths have occurred at the camp.

And nationwide, there have been six suicides in immigration custody in the last 13 months – the most in a 13-month period in the last eight years, according to the limited US government records available.

The 42 deaths occurred among those detained in facilities scattered coast to coast, where almost 70,000 immigrants are now locked up – more than any time in US immigration history. The Trump administration is rushing to expand detention further with plans to convert warehouses in several states.

Escobar said to the Guardian in a telephone interview that the deaths across the US are “alarming and incredibly tragic”.

“The federal government is failing miserably either through incompetence or abject cruelty and neglect,” she said.

As more are detained, the death toll rises.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which includes ICE, was sent detailed questions and requests for comment and has responded.

“There has been NO spike in deaths. Consistent with data over the last decade, death rates in custody are 0.009% of the detained population,” an unnamed DHS spokesperson said.

DHS did not provide a source for the figure it cited in its response. The statement continued: “As bed space has rapidly expanded, we have maintained higher standard (sic) of care than most prisons that hold US citizens – including providing access to proper medical care. For many illegal aliens this is the best healthcare they have received their entire lives.”

DHS’s response to questions for this story included pointing out the criminal histories of some of the detainees who have died. Others who have died have no criminal past.

Government data shows that detainees with no criminal histories make up the largest portion of those in ICE detention, a total that peaked at more than 70,000 this January, a fresh record. Breaching immigration law is a civil offense, not criminal.

Austin Kocher, an assistant research professor at Syracuse University and an immigration data and policy expert, posted on BlueSky: “ICE detention deaths are now occurring at a rate of roughly one every four days. Three weeks ago that rate was one every six days. The pace is accelerating, and Congress has not launched a single investigation.”

In early January 2026, Victor Manuel Diaz, 36, was arrested by ICE in a Minneapolis suburb for being in the US illegally. On 14 January, he was found dead inside a medical clinic at Camp East Montana, where ICE said his death was presumed to be a suicide, and the official cause was under investigation.

However, members of Diaz’s family told the Associated Press that they are suspicious of the idea that he took his own life because he was not depressed and was about to be reunited with his mother and other relatives upon being deported to Nicaragua. Like so many other bereaved loved ones, they are waiting and hoping to hear more that would explain the loss of their relative.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/21/ice-deaths-trump-administration

42 vs. 6,000,000. Yeah that is great comparative support. Keep up the hyperbole. Not even close.

false equivalency. you are talking about numbers in a matter of months and generalizing over the entire time the nazis were in power before and DURING A WORLD WAR. a more apt comparison, which you undoubtably know, would be to compare what has happened this year with the first year the nazis controlled the german government. it takes time to commit atrocities. it takes time for the public to accept and be desensitized to the escalation in cruelty. you are smarter than this post.

Disclaimer: The primary user of this account no longer posts personal opinions here. They post facts, tough questions, videos and provocative statements, sometimes controversial, meant for the purpose of gathering information for use in the upcoming midterm elections. Nothing is to be taken personally

42? 14% of which are suicides? ok. 

42. 36 minus suicides. Now let's think about the total crime committed by millions of illegals and total tax dollars spent on the millions of them to the 36.  What is the bigger problem?  

Also, if anyone is trying to compare tRump deporting illegals, and 36 of them dying in custody to Hitler intentionally killing 6 million people.....well, now would be a good time to do 2 things.
1 - stop commenting on other people's intelligence, you need to possess it to do that
2 - just be quiet and stop embarrassing yourself...you are indoctrinated...you are conflating education for intelligence. A serious problem amongst leftists.

*The following opinion is mine and mine alone and does not represent the views of my family, friends, government and/or my past, present or future employer. US Department of State: 1-888-407-4747.

shecky said:

Well said, sir. The only solution is to never vote for a Democrat again. They've ruined our once-wonderful paradise.

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