No /s needed. I’m sorry to say that there is a lot of credible evidence that this is reality in ICE and Border Patrol detention centers, especially with unaccompanied minors. It’s been going on for years and only got worse under ICE.

This is one of the main reasons Dem lawmakers concerned about the welfare of detained immigrants keep trying to get into the detention centers themselves, to see the housing arrangements personally as a part of their congressional oversight, which they have every legal right to do. And I suspect it’s probably the primary reason why they are never actually allowed in, contrary to federal law and legislators’ rights under the Constitution.

Not only have lawmakers at every level not been allowed in, but at Delaney Hall in New Jersey, Senator Andy Kim has been pepper sprayed by federal agents, and in a separate incident the Newark mayor was arrested just for requesting to enter the facility, and Newark’s congressional Rep. LaMonica McIver was charged with a crime just for being there.