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Kim Perales

Immigrant women describe it like ‘Hell on earth’ at Krome detention center in Miami.

They were held “like animals” in ICE detention & subjected to conditions so extreme that they💔FEARED FOR THEIR LIVES -CHAINED for hours on a prison bus w/o access to food, water or toilet -then sleeping on the concrete floor with 27 women in one cell “like sardines in a jar”…

usatoday.com/story/news/nation

USA TODAY · Immigrant women describe 'hell on earth' in ICE detentionBy Lauren Villagran

There’re more reports of neglect, , & at least one death at the det cen in Miami💔. A video’s gone viral: shows ppl sleeping on the floor, & a man pleads for help, says there’s little food. A man that was deported to MX said he was detained there for days with no water, & sleeping outside -no AC, everybody is sick, God knows what they have, no MED attention or privileges to a bathroom.

The buck stops at the top, if any other president had…


nbcmiami.com/news/local/famili

NBC 6 South Florida · ‘They are being treated like dogs': Families concerned over living conditions at Krome Detention CenterBy Sophia Hernandez

@KimPerales I wonder if this facility is federally owned and run or if it is part of our outsourced detention system.

@markstoneman It’s run by Geo Group, the company donated ~$750,000 to Trump last year.

@KimPerales As horrible trump is, let's not pretend that immigration detention was better under other presidents. It wasn't.

@ang6666 I’m not claiming it was good. But it’s much worse under Trump, & he just removed the people in DHS who provide ICE detention oversight.