Senate Probe Uncovers Allegations of Widespread Abuse in ICE Custody

US The Senate’s investigation has identified more than 500 reliable reports of human rights violations in the detention of immigration in the United States since January, including disturbing allegations about the treatment of pregnant women and children.

As of late last month, the investigation – carried by American senator John Osov, a democratic for Georgia – discovered 41 cases of physical and sexual assault; 14 It includes pregnant detainees and 18 children’s involvement.

Importances of abuse facilities in 25 states include Portorico, American military bases, and rented deportations. Among the most shocking: According to a pregnant woman for several days before she was transferred to the hospital, only to abort alone without medical care. Others have described forcing them to sleep on the ground or deny meals and medical examinations. Lawyers reported that prenatal tests were canceled for their customers for weeks each time.

Children who are not more than 2 years are negligent. An American citizen with severe medical needs has been transferred to the hospital several times while he was in the customs nursery and the border protection, as it is claimed that an officer refused her mother’s appeals to help by informing her of “giving the girl just cracking.” According to what was reported, another child who recovered from brain surgery was rejected from the care of follow -up, and a 4 -year -old child who is undergoing cancer was deported without reaching doctors.

The Senate investigation was found most of the reports of abuse in the detention centers in Texas, Georgia and California, and extends to both the facilities run by the Ministry of Internal Security and Federal Prison used under immigration and customs enforcement agreements (ICE). Osov office says the results are based on dozens of interviews with witnesses, including detainees, family members, lawyers, reformist, law enforcement, doctors and nurses, as well as sites on sites for detention centers in Texas and Georgia.

The report is also cited by confirming news investigations and public records, relying on sources such as WIRED, MIAMI HERALD, NBC News, CNN, BBC and regional outlets such as Louisiana Illuminator and VT Digger.

These sources together formed the basis of what the report describes as an “active and continuous investigation” in the regular abuse of pregnant women and children detained in the United States.

ICE did not respond to WIRED request for comment.

In late June, a wire investigation focused on 911 calls from 10 of the country’s largest ice detention centers in the country, and revealed a pattern of medical crises ranging from complications from pregnancy, suicide attempts to attacks, head injuries and sexual assault allegations. (WIRED shared its results with the OSSOFF office on request last month.)

The sources told WIRED that detention staff often failed to respond to urgent calls, including multiple cases in which pregnant women suffered from serious complications or abortion without medical care in time.

The Trump administration’s detention system is expanding, with plans for more than one dual capacity to more than 107,000 beds worldwide. The new facilities are increasing in West Texas, where a contract worth $ 232 million funded a tent -style camp in Fort Bliss capable of keeping up to 5,000 people; In Indiana, ICE made a deal to house 1000 detainees in the state prisoner system.

The so -called “Alcatraz” normative “Alcatraz” in Florida has already performed lawsuits for alleged human rights violations and environmental damage, while critics warn against relying on military bases and remote rural prisons to absorb the mutation strips of due and guns of general conditions.

Civil rights groups and local preachers argue that expansion is reinforcing a system that is already suffering from neglect, pointing to reports of miscarriages, unspecified disease, and violence at home.

With the flow of contracts to both prisoners ’companies and military facilities alike, the United States concludes in the largest migration network in the country’s history – a infrastructure that critics say is designed not only to keep migrants but to make their suffering invisible.