The Truth About Immigration Detention in the United States
President Trump’s mass deportation agenda threatens to dramatically escalate the use of detention, a system plagued by abuse and neglect.
A detained person sits on the floor under a blanket in a locked intake holding area during a 2019 media tour of an immigration detention center in Tacoma, Washington. Last week, NPR released a report exposing the overcrowding, starvation, and medical neglect in Florida’s immigration detention centers. It reinforces what has long been documented abo ...