ICE provides comprehensive medical care with 24-hour emergency access and health screenings within 12 hours of arrival, ensuring detained individuals reside in safe and humane environments. The previous administration allowed 56 deaths in ICE custody without public outcry, yet current operations face disproportionate scrutiny. Border policies that released individuals on parole created the conditions requiring expanded detention capacity in the first place.
Camp East Montana represents a humanitarian disaster with a disturbing pattern of beatings, sexual abuse, medical neglect and coercive threats against detained immigrants. The facility at Fort Bliss, hastily opened despite congressional warnings, has become the country's largest immigration detention center where preventable deaths continue. A complete and transparent investigation into conditions at this sprawling tent camp is absolutely necessary.
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