Migrants at Ice jail in Miami made to kneel to eat 'like dogs', report alleges
Migrants at Ice jail in Miami made to kneel to eat ‘like dogs’, report alleges
Incident in which migrants were shackled with hands tied of one succession of alleged abuses at jails in Florida
Richard Luscombe in Miami
Mon 21 Jul 2025 04.00 EDT
Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “like dogs”, according to a report published on Monday into conditions at three overcrowded south Florida facilities.
The incident at the downtown federal detention center is one of a succession of alleged abuses at Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (Ice) operated jails in the state since January, chronicled by advocacy groups Human Rights Watch, Americans for Immigrant Justice, and Sanctuary of the South from interviews with detainees.
Dozens of men had been packed into a holding cell for hours, the report said, and denied lunch until about 7pm. They remained shackled with the food on chairs in front of them.
“We had to eat like animals,” one detainee named Pedro said.
Degrading treatment by guards is commonplace in all three jails, the groups say. At the Krome North service processing center in west Miami, female detainees were made to use toilets in full view of men being held there, and were denied access to gender-appropriate care, showers, or adequate food.
The jail was so far beyond capacity, some transferring detainees reported, that they were held for more than 24 hours in a bus in the parking lot. Men and women were confined together, and unshackled only when they needed to use the single toilet, which quickly became clogged.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/21/migrants-miami-ice-jail-abuses
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NRA forgot to rise up
We have to be punished for not loving him like he expects.
I hope, every morning, that I will see the headline we've all been awaiting for so long...but it hasn't happened yet.
3,000 arrests per day just means scooping up every brown person in sight, from children in daycare to old people selling tacos and burritos. American citizens, US veterans, long term residents who’ve never so much as jaywalked, or who maybe did something stupid as a teenager that they never did again.
My sarcasm hit a peak when the father of 3 US Marines got a savage beat-down for — wait for it — weed-trimming outside a business. Then when our local fields got cleared of workers again and again, because you just know those strawberry-pickers are dangerous as hell — hard labor in the scorching heat is just deep cover for gangs.
Speaking of the beat-down, no matter who ICE is kidnapping, they always seem to need 6 fully-armed thugs to capture one person. Because, y’know, they eat pets, and they’re not human beings at all. Trump told us so.
I hilariously thought cooler heads would prevail. But it's heartening to know budgets and deficits are playing such a big role in their decision making. 
