“They don’t have a commissary set up, so that people can’t buy extra food and are just starving with the insufficient food they’re given,” said one attorney.

“The facility is designed to torture people and push them to their breaking point so that they will self-deport.”

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📍 𝐅𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐃𝐀:

The so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” is now closed. But advocates are warning about possible similar conditions at the other state-operated immigrant detention camp in Florida: the Baker Correctional Institution, nicknamed by Ron DeSantis as “Deportation Depot.”

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“… groups filed a federal class-action lawsuit against DHS this year alleging poor drinking water, food, sanitation and medical care at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center, and a federal judge ordered improvements.

Four people have died at the facility since last year …”

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📍 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐀:

The sales reflect Trump administration efforts to avoid oversight from California and other states by placing the facilities under federal ownership, even though they would still be operated by private companies like GEO Group.

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“Citizen kids have been swept up too — at least 70 of them. We’ve found about 20 kids who were handcuffed or zip-tied.”

“… agents handcuffed a 15-year-old w/disabilities outside a school in Los Angeles in 2025. The agents said they mistook the teen for an alleged gang member.”

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“If I don’t, then who else?” Martinez said when asked what keeps her going. “Look at what happened to Renee [Good] and all these victims. … I have a voice, and I do matter, and I don’t want it to keep happening.”

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“… Martinez’s lawyers presented an animated reconstruction of the shooting based on evidence from the case that they say shows Exum was not in danger when he shot Martinez.”

"Actual footage of the shooting does not exist because Exum failed to activate his body camera … ”

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📍 𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐆𝐎, 𝐈𝐋:

Marimar Martinez, the U.S. citizen who was shot five times by a Border Patrol agent during last year’s chaotic Operation Midway Blitz, has filed a lawsuit against the federal government.

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“They said they honor him in their homes, where they keep small pictures of him near images of saints and a candle.

And, they said, by sharing his story.

'Because that’s what he would have wanted, is for us to keep going and to keep fighting,’ his sister said.”

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📍 𝐁𝐈𝐃𝐃𝐄𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐃, 𝐌𝐄:

While they wait for answers and accountability, Maine dad Johan Sebastián’s family wants the world to know that he was a good person who “took a little piece of everyone with him” when he was shot and killed by ICE this past summer.

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𝟓𝟎𝟔 𝐔.𝐒. 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐃𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝

That includes more than 100 Americans questioned about their citizenship status, at least 70 American children and teens detained, at least 63 Americans detained while recording, and roughly a dozen U.S. citizens (mainly children) deported. #AbuseOfPowerWatch

📍𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐘𝐎𝐑𝐊:

A former NYC police sergeant pleaded guilty to impersonating a federal immigration official in order to threaten a woman and her family with deportation, conduct prosecutors have described as an attempt to “take revenge” on someone in his personal life.

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📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋:

"ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them ‘unaccompanied.’”

"The administration’s goal in detaining these children, a former ORR official says , is ‘to make sure no one ever sends their kids to the US again.’”

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📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋:

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine but also stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

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