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On June 5th, people detained in the Krome ICE Detention Center in Miami, Florida, formed the words “SOS”, “CUBA”, and what starts with “LIBR…” for an overhead camera.1

What is Happening

Conditions in the Krome North Service Processing Center have become increasingly worse in the last couple of weeks due to overcrowding.
Some reports of the conditions:

“They had been sleeping on the floor for a week or two. For food, he said they were given a cup of rice and a glass of water a day. It was very concerning." Miami based lawyer Jeff Botelho said about his client.2
"There are a lot of sick people there, and they aren't getting medical attention. They are sleeping on the floor and sometimes don't get meals." Maria, a brother of client said; She provided an image to NPR of a photo of her brother with swollen red eyes.3
Out of the total 7 deaths reported at immigration detention facilities this year, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), reports 2 of them are from the Krome facility.4 Both of these people did not develop their medical issues until after they were transferred to the Krome facility.5 6
The Krome facility was last inspected on May 1, 2025 revealing 14 deficiencies using inspection standards that have not been revised or updated since 2016 (Performance-Based National Detention Standards).
82% of people detained in the Krome facility are labeled as “No ICE Threat”, which means they have “no criminal convictions”, and no history of violent behavior.7
The Krome facility houses only males and is a Service Processing Center, which means it is owned by the government and staffed by a combination of federal and contract employees.8

The results of the most recent May 1st inspection of the Krome facility are consistent with folks’ complaints:9

There was significant overcrowding, holding rooms are designed to be temporary spaces for people incarcerated and they are abusing this space. Holding rooms have no beds, and typically have 1 or 2 toilets each for everyone to see.
- In one holding room designed for a max of 25 people, they observed it overfilled with 37 people.
- People are supposed to be in holding rooms for a max of 12 hours, but half of the holding rooms had people in them for at least 18 hours (labeled a “priority component”). They observed people sleeping on floors with no pillows or blankets due to overcapacity.
- The facility had NOT kept records for placement of people, their details, meal times, if people ate or needed food when they arrived, nor security concerns and comments since February 19, 2025.
61% (22 out of 36) of the units had 2 or 3 too many people assigned to a toilet, with some toilets being shared by 17 people each.
330 people made requests and did not receive a response for upwards of 21 - 41 business days, when the staff are meant to respond within 3 business days.
There were significant medical concerns. When you are booked into any facility they must perform a medical, dental, and Tuberculosis (TB) screening for you.
- They observed repeatedly staff never performing required health screenings (labeled a “priority component”).
- Medical staff did not obtain informed consent for services.
- Keep in mind, one of the reported deaths by ICE at another facility in Arizona was for TB, a curable disease.10 This could have been avoided if they had tested him for TB from the beginning.
The last inspection of the Krome facility was in March of 2024, and it revealed only 5 deficiencies, so they significantly dropped in care to increase to 14 deficiencies.

It is important to understand this before we go into anything further.

The United States accepts people into the country when they are fleeing persecution or torture from the government in their country. This is known as asylum and is an avenue to remain here legally. However, you may only file an asylum application “if you are physically present in the United States.”11 Additionally, Cuban natives or citizens living in the United States are eligible to become lawful permanent residents (get a Green Card) after a few conditions like they have lived in the U.S. for at least one year, and were admitted or paroled (The Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966 (CAA)).12

This means immigrants need to find a way to enter the country while fleeing their government to seek asylum and as a Cuban, you must enter the country to get a green card. This often leads to people entering the U.S. without authorization and being classified as “illegal”, even though they have a legal means to be released into the country.

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I have compiled a list of information from news sources that are considered to lean right, lean left, and some that even fall in the center to dig in deeper (all sources in footnotes).

The Facts:

Everyone knows that since the current White House Administration, there have been a large influx of immigrating people being detained and placed into detention centers across the United States. Since President Trump’s inauguration, here is what has happened:

On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order “… to faithfully execute the immigration laws against all inadmissible and removable aliens, particularly those aliens who threaten the safety or security of the American people.”13
It also orders “… to adopt policies and procedures to encourage aliens unlawfully in the United States to voluntarily depart as soon as possible…”14
Initial Trump deportations have been at a slower rate at 37,660 people removed from the country per month than last year under Biden’s Administration when 57,000 people were removed per month.15
ICE/BCP has detained so many people that the U.S. Immigration detentions became filled to capacity at 47,600 people by March 12, 2025.16
ICE/BCP has been detaining people who have never been charged or convicted for any other crimes, or any violent offenses.17
ICE/BCP has wrongfully detained people who were later found to be U.S. Citizens.18 19

A look at the REAL Numbers Reported by ICE:

The following were all pulled from the most recent reported numbers from ICE (as of June 7, 2025), their report contains data from 2018 to June 1, 2025.20

Immigration detention centers are currently above capacity numbers with a total of 51,302 people being detained, that is 3,702 people without beds across the country.
A whopping 70% of total people detained in immigration facilities have never been convicted of a crime.
44% of total people detained in immigration facilities have never even been charged with a crime at all (outside of their immigration concerns), that means 44% of them have exhibited NO history of violent behavior.
By the end of May, there were a total of 4,346 people being detained in immigration facilities who had a positive determination for fear. This means they passed their asylum fear credibility interview to remain in the U.S., pending their asylum hearing.
There have been 7 U.S. Citizens wrongfully arrested and 4 of them who were wrongfully booked into custody so far reported up to April 22, 2025 (the last 3 months total). In 2024, there were only 7 U.S. Citizens mistakenly booked into custody for the entire year… Let’s look at this more closely:
- Trump’s 1st Term
  - 2018: Arrested 30 U.S. Citizens and booked in 19.
  - 2019: Arrested 12 U.S. Citizens and booked in 8.
  - 2020: Arrested 11 U.S. Citizens and booked in 9.
- Biden’s Term
  - 2021: Arrested 6 U.S. Citizens and booked in 4.
  - 2022: Arrested 1 U.S. Citizen and booked in 1.
  - 2023: Arrested 7 U.S. Citizens and booked in 4.
  - 2024: Arrested 13 U.S. Citizens and booked in 7.
- Under Trump’s policies, there were more than twice as many U.S. Citizens mistakenly arrested by ICE/BCP than under Biden’s policies (keeping in mind one year of Trump’s term is missing data).
For immigrants who are parents of U.S. Citizens, there have been 6,651 people booked into custody, and 3,700 people removed from the country, so far reported up to April 22, 2025 (the last 3 months total).
The average cost of bond for a person to be released pending their case (keep in mind, innocent until proven guilty is our motto) during May of 2025 was $7,355.
As an attorney who has represented migrants before, bonding companies do not typically offer deals for people in immigration facilities to pay 10% or percentage, so they will have to pay the full bond of $7,355 as their set bond.

Why is all this happening?

Well, I am very glad I went through the trouble of finding the primary sources as I don’t need nearly as many news articles to break this down for you. It is very simple, on day one, President Trump ordered ICE to significantly increase the number of people to detain, prior to establishing any protocol or measures to address the predictable downfall of overpopulating the immigration facilities.

This is because under Biden’s policies, ICE/BCP was already detaining and deporting people at high rates. The people who ICE/BCP are detaining at higher rates under Trump’s policies often have legitimate claims or reasons to be in the United States. Now, people are suffering for what could have been avoided.

Let’s break it down (from the Right)

This is not new for ICE and Homeland Security to arrest and deport people, it has been a regular part of our policies for years. The Daily Wire, right leaning news, reported that between October and December of 2024: 21

2,719 immigrating people were charged for various crimes, however the data is not clear as it is based on charges, and not people… As people can have multiple charges, we cannot correlate this information with the number of people…
These are the numbers, 3,854 charges total and 447 of these charges were violent offenses with 3 of those being murder.
About half of the offenses were minor and not worth deporting someone over like, 549 Driving w/o their license, 533 traffic violation, 243 driving on , 147 public intoxication (this is legal in Louisiana), 150 failure to appear (they could have been deported as the reason they did not appear, this means little), and 91 violation of probation (this could be as minor as not calling your probation officer when you were supposed to).
They also only list the charges, which does not account for who was actually found guilty of anything… They also do not list which of these charges had which disposition (result)… The report states: “Many arrestees had multiple charges.”
The prosecutor rejected 37 of these charges (this could be for a number of different reasons, including there was no probable cause), 85 were dismissed (usually this means they found evidence that the person did not do the crime), 198 have no court record found (which could mean more dismissals), 136 are still open, and 22 are still pending.
Only 128 charges landed with a guilty verdict so far but we have no idea if 1 of the 2,719 people had 3 of these guilty charges or only 1. Technically, only 50 of these people could have all 128 guilty dispositions (results).
This data is very lacking (and annoying) because now we have no idea if the violent charges or the minor ones were dismissed, or if they only found people guilty of minor traffic violations… Needless to say, this is why I don’t usually get my news from heavy right-leaning sources.

So all this to say, even if we said 2,719 undocumented people were found guilty of a crime (which we can’t), that is only about 2% of Tennessee’s undocumented population. It is less than 1% (0.63%) of the total immigrants in Tennessee.22 For perspective, 1 in every 3 U.S. Citizens have a criminal record too.

It is a common understanding that the intentions of current officials are to prioritize undocumented people who have been convicted of a crime, and more specifically a dangerous or violent crime.

“They have allowed terrorists, people that are on the terrorist watch list, dangerous criminals, gang members, and criminals to enter our country and to perpetuate violence on American families, and that is going to stop now.”23
- Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security

Yet, we repeatedly find high numbers of them detaining non-criminals at the risk of overcrowding the immigration facilities… Do they not know what “prioritize” means? The New York Post reported:

“Of the illegal migrants nabbed by Trump’s ICE, 14,000 are convicted criminals, 10,000 have pending criminal charges and 8,700 do not have criminal records in the US, ICE officials told reporters.”24

This article has us running into similar circles as the data before. The only thing this tells us is that 43% of the people they arrested have been convicted of a crime. We have no idea if the crime was simply driving with a broken bumper, or a minor traffic violation, or if it was actual assault or a violent crime. They do not differentiate here. The 10,000 people with pending charges could also have no criminal history and be minor charges as well. This is a problem as a LOT of minor crimes are simply the result of not having the money or funds to fix your situation (i.e. can’t afford to re-register your vehicle, can’t afford to fix your taillight, etc.).

Another article from the New York Post highlights the issues occurring recently. A high schooler was detained for about 6 days and said it was '“humiliating” conditions. A classmate spoke up for him.

“He did say he was going to deport criminals,” she said. “Marcelo is not a criminal. He’s a student. I really want him to take a step in our shoes, witnessing this. Try and understand how we feel. We’re just trying to graduate high school.” 25
- Amani Jack, a recent Milford High graduate

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A Continuing Pattern… (from the Left)

The New York Times also reported a recent operation that detained 1,100 people in Florida (which would have increased the numbers at the Krome facility). They seem to cite similar issues of lack of data.

“ICE officials said the operation targeted people with deportation orders and those with criminal histories. More than 60 percent of those picked up had either an arrest or a conviction, the agency said.”26

An arrest does not mean someone has committed a crime, and a conviction does not mean someone is violent or worthy of deportation under our laws. Two different Democrat Representatives from Congress recently visited the Krome facility. They both talked about why these issues are occurring.

Representative Frederica Wilson (24th Congressional District of Florida) spoke after her visit in April and mentioned ombudsmen were fired.27 Ombudsmen are third party investigators who act as a check on systems or government agencies to ensure they are not doing anything corrupt or unethical. Her comment appears outdated now, after a lawsuit the Office of Homeland Security re-instated the Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman.28

“When I went in I wanted to see all of these criminals… I wanted to see where were these dangerous people that they had picked up off the street and put them in a detention center. I didn't see them… I saw hard working men. Some more literate than others. I even saw some who are mentally disturbed and have mental issues. I saw some who have physical issues, who are sick. I saw some who weren't quite sure what was going on.”
- Representative Frederica Wilson

Rep. Wilson continued and described that they said the conditions were bad, people sleeping on floors, and that people were often being transported between many facilities and they didn’t know where they would end up next.

As an attorney, I am familiar with how difficult it is to locate your client in immigration custody. You often cannot simply call the facility directly and just ask for your client; you have to wait for them to contact you. They also often lose track of people in the facilities. This makes it extremely difficult to properly represent someone in immigration custody.

They told her as “new detainees come in, they try to ship people out”. She explained they cannot keep up with the numbers “because of the Riley Act”, so they are building alternative housing around the facility.

“I saw a tent already constructed… They're going to be moving in there tomorrow…. This is a huge structure that's two stories tall, made out of plexiglass… It has space for 800 people, 400 pounds, 800 to sleep… So every time this facility gets crowded, in order to stay in compliance, they're going to have to build another one. And it only takes 14 days.”
- Representative Frederica Wilson

Rep. Wilson described how it appeared to her that they cleaned up the Krome facility before she arrived to make it look like conditions were better there. She had announced her arrival ahead of time. She was not convinced.

“It was like somebody went in there yesterday and put on a whole new coat of fresh paint. You could even smell the paint. They… cleaned the glasswork. That's what they do… I think what is really happening is what the detainees are telling their families and their attorneys. And I think that we cannot lose sight of that, and that's why it is important for us to show up, to let them know they were coming to have oversight.”
- Representative Frederica Wilson

Representative Debbie Schultz (25th Congressional District of Florida) decided to visit the Krome facility unannounced on Thursday, May 29, 2025.29 This video captures parts of the conditions in the facility.

“Dozens of men crammed into 9x9 intake rooms for anywhere between 12 and 48 hours, according to people she spoke to. They are there in those rooms with all of those other men, eating, sleeping, and going to the bathroom. In that room that's that small, sleeping on the floor, having to urinate and defecate in front of other people in that small room… This is a facility that was built to a capacity for 882, and they currently hold 1,111 detainees.”
- Representative Debbie Schultz

This mirrors what we learned from the May 1, 2025 inspection, which sounds like these are ongoing concerns. There is also a continuing pattern of about 40% of people who have not committed a crime were detained at the facility. There seems to be a lack of understanding of how to prioritize criminals to avoid overcrowding.

“They said about 60% have committed crimes, 40% who have not.”
- Representative Debbie Schultz

The Nitty Gritty:

Immigration officials are arresting people and flooding immigration facilities causing terrible and inhumane conditions like at the Krome facility.
There has not been enough oversight and not enough people released to avoid overcrowding.
Policies are framed as increasing detentions for people who commit crimes, but roughly 40% of any given immigration facility is filled with people with no criminal history.
Releases for people with no criminal history come down to three major issues in jails and centers like this: (1) too high bond, (2) backlog on cases for people seeking parole, asylum, etc. (i.e. not enough judges), and (3) Lack of access to good attorneys.
There are no new policies being enacted to address these three major issues.

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Three Main Potential Solutions:

There are clearly inhumane conditions being created in immigration detention centers and here are potential solutions:

President Trump’s plan to use our tax dollars to direct funding away from other areas like education, military, or infrastructure, and create more facilities to hold more people.
President Trump or his Administration releases the 4,346 people being detained in immigration facilities who passed the asylum screening into the United States on parole to adjust for overcrowding or releases some of the 44% of people who have no criminal history.
Immigration attorneys fight for their clients to be released based on the inhumane conditions, like under the 8th Amendment for “cruel and unusual punishment” (see my article from last Tuesday).

Choice 1 is a terrible idea because it doesn’t solve the sheer amount of issues occurring under Trump’s policies. It does not address the amount of U.S. Citizens being wrongfully detained, or the high bonds set that people cannot afford, or the fact that so many people are being detained who are not criminals or violent at all, or the growing backlog that lacks enough judges. It completely ignores what motivates people to commit crimes to begin with…

Choice 2 is a more immediate solution that looks great! This would urgently solve the overcrowding issues where we are averaging about 4,000 too many people in the current facilities. Some might say, just deport them, but we pay their travel costs and also… for what reason? They’re not the “Worst of the worst” as the White House Admin puts it.

Choice 3 is already occurring but there are likely a shortage of attorneys to keep up with the demand. There is likely a lot of people who cannot afford an attorney and not enough attorneys with the time and resources to represent pro bono. I have done enough research for one day, so maybe I’ll discuss that in another post later. Either way, this one is only a band-aid to the real cause of the issues.

If you got this far, which choice would you make and why? Or do you have another idea that might be better? Let’s discuss!

Best wishes,
~ Ringo

News Sources

From the Right:

The New York Post
The Daily Wire

From the Left:

The New York Times
The New Yorker

From the Center:

Reuters
The Wall Street Journal

Do you have any questions about this post?

What is Happening

Conditions in the Krome North Service Processing Center have become increasingly worse in the last couple of weeks due to overcrowding.
Some reports of the conditions:

“They had been sleeping on the floor for a week or two. For food, he said they were given a cup of rice and a glass of water a day. It was very concerning." Miami based lawyer Jeff Botelho said about his client.2
"There are a lot of sick people there, and they aren't getting medical attention. They are sleeping on the floor and sometimes don't get meals." Maria, a brother of client said; She provided an image to NPR of a photo of her brother with swollen red eyes.3
Out of the total 7 deaths reported at immigration detention facilities this year, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), reports 2 of them are from the Krome facility.4 Both of these people did not develop their medical issues until after they were transferred to the Krome facility.5 6
The Krome facility was last inspected on May 1, 2025 revealing 14 deficiencies using inspection standards that have not been revised or updated since 2016 (Performance-Based National Detention Standards).
82% of people detained in the Krome facility are labeled as “No ICE Threat”, which means they have “no criminal convictions”, and no history of violent behavior.7
The Krome facility houses only males and is a Service Processing Center, which means it is owned by the government and staffed by a combination of federal and contract employees.8

The results of the most recent May 1st inspection of the Krome facility are consistent with folks’ complaints:9

There was significant overcrowding, holding rooms are designed to be temporary spaces for people incarcerated and they are abusing this space. Holding rooms have no beds, and typically have 1 or 2 toilets each for everyone to see.
- In one holding room designed for a max of 25 people, they observed it overfilled with 37 people.
- People are supposed to be in holding rooms for a max of 12 hours, but half of the holding rooms had people in them for at least 18 hours (labeled a “priority component”). They observed people sleeping on floors with no pillows or blankets due to overcapacity.
- The facility had NOT kept records for placement of people, their details, meal times, if people ate or needed food when they arrived, nor security concerns and comments since February 19, 2025.
61% (22 out of 36) of the units had 2 or 3 too many people assigned to a toilet, with some toilets being shared by 17 people each.
330 people made requests and did not receive a response for upwards of 21 - 41 business days, when the staff are meant to respond within 3 business days.
There were significant medical concerns. When you are booked into any facility they must perform a medical, dental, and Tuberculosis (TB) screening for you.
- They observed repeatedly staff never performing required health screenings (labeled a “priority component”).
- Medical staff did not obtain informed consent for services.
- Keep in mind, one of the reported deaths by ICE at another facility in Arizona was for TB, a curable disease.10 This could have been avoided if they had tested him for TB from the beginning.
The last inspection of the Krome facility was in March of 2024, and it revealed only 5 deficiencies, so they significantly dropped in care to increase to 14 deficiencies.

It is important to understand this before we go into anything further.

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I have compiled a list of information from news sources that are considered to lean right, lean left, and some that even fall in the center to dig in deeper (all sources in footnotes).

The Facts:

On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order “… to faithfully execute the immigration laws against all inadmissible and removable aliens, particularly those aliens who threaten the safety or security of the American people.”13
It also orders “… to adopt policies and procedures to encourage aliens unlawfully in the United States to voluntarily depart as soon as possible…”14
Initial Trump deportations have been at a slower rate at 37,660 people removed from the country per month than last year under Biden’s Administration when 57,000 people were removed per month.15
ICE/BCP has detained so many people that the U.S. Immigration detentions became filled to capacity at 47,600 people by March 12, 2025.16
ICE/BCP has been detaining people who have never been charged or convicted for any other crimes, or any violent offenses.17
ICE/BCP has wrongfully detained people who were later found to be U.S. Citizens.18 19

A look at the REAL Numbers Reported by ICE:

The following were all pulled from the most recent reported numbers from ICE (as of June 7, 2025), their report contains data from 2018 to June 1, 2025.20

Immigration detention centers are currently above capacity numbers with a total of 51,302 people being detained, that is 3,702 people without beds across the country.
A whopping 70% of total people detained in immigration facilities have never been convicted of a crime.
44% of total people detained in immigration facilities have never even been charged with a crime at all (outside of their immigration concerns), that means 44% of them have exhibited NO history of violent behavior.
By the end of May, there were a total of 4,346 people being detained in immigration facilities who had a positive determination for fear. This means they passed their asylum fear credibility interview to remain in the U.S., pending their asylum hearing.
There have been 7 U.S. Citizens wrongfully arrested and 4 of them who were wrongfully booked into custody so far reported up to April 22, 2025 (the last 3 months total). In 2024, there were only 7 U.S. Citizens mistakenly booked into custody for the entire year… Let’s look at this more closely:
- Trump’s 1st Term
  - 2018: Arrested 30 U.S. Citizens and booked in 19.
  - 2019: Arrested 12 U.S. Citizens and booked in 8.
  - 2020: Arrested 11 U.S. Citizens and booked in 9.
- Biden’s Term
  - 2021: Arrested 6 U.S. Citizens and booked in 4.
  - 2022: Arrested 1 U.S. Citizen and booked in 1.
  - 2023: Arrested 7 U.S. Citizens and booked in 4.
  - 2024: Arrested 13 U.S. Citizens and booked in 7.
- Under Trump’s policies, there were more than twice as many U.S. Citizens mistakenly arrested by ICE/BCP than under Biden’s policies (keeping in mind one year of Trump’s term is missing data).
For immigrants who are parents of U.S. Citizens, there have been 6,651 people booked into custody, and 3,700 people removed from the country, so far reported up to April 22, 2025 (the last 3 months total).
The average cost of bond for a person to be released pending their case (keep in mind, innocent until proven guilty is our motto) during May of 2025 was $7,355.
As an attorney who has represented migrants before, bonding companies do not typically offer deals for people in immigration facilities to pay 10% or percentage, so they will have to pay the full bond of $7,355 as their set bond.

Why is all this happening?

Let’s break it down (from the Right)

2,719 immigrating people were charged for various crimes, however the data is not clear as it is based on charges, and not people… As people can have multiple charges, we cannot correlate this information with the number of people…
These are the numbers, 3,854 charges total and 447 of these charges were violent offenses with 3 of those being murder.
About half of the offenses were minor and not worth deporting someone over like, 549 Driving w/o their license, 533 traffic violation, 243 driving on , 147 public intoxication (this is legal in Louisiana), 150 failure to appear (they could have been deported as the reason they did not appear, this means little), and 91 violation of probation (this could be as minor as not calling your probation officer when you were supposed to).
They also only list the charges, which does not account for who was actually found guilty of anything… They also do not list which of these charges had which disposition (result)… The report states: “Many arrestees had multiple charges.”
The prosecutor rejected 37 of these charges (this could be for a number of different reasons, including there was no probable cause), 85 were dismissed (usually this means they found evidence that the person did not do the crime), 198 have no court record found (which could mean more dismissals), 136 are still open, and 22 are still pending.
Only 128 charges landed with a guilty verdict so far but we have no idea if 1 of the 2,719 people had 3 of these guilty charges or only 1. Technically, only 50 of these people could have all 128 guilty dispositions (results).
This data is very lacking (and annoying) because now we have no idea if the violent charges or the minor ones were dismissed, or if they only found people guilty of minor traffic violations… Needless to say, this is why I don’t usually get my news from heavy right-leaning sources.

It is a common understanding that the intentions of current officials are to prioritize undocumented people who have been convicted of a crime, and more specifically a dangerous or violent crime.

“They have allowed terrorists, people that are on the terrorist watch list, dangerous criminals, gang members, and criminals to enter our country and to perpetuate violence on American families, and that is going to stop now.”23
- Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security

Yet, we repeatedly find high numbers of them detaining non-criminals at the risk of overcrowding the immigration facilities… Do they not know what “prioritize” means? The New York Post reported:

“Of the illegal migrants nabbed by Trump’s ICE, 14,000 are convicted criminals, 10,000 have pending criminal charges and 8,700 do not have criminal records in the US, ICE officials told reporters.”24

“He did say he was going to deport criminals,” she said. “Marcelo is not a criminal. He’s a student. I really want him to take a step in our shoes, witnessing this. Try and understand how we feel. We’re just trying to graduate high school.” 25
- Amani Jack, a recent Milford High graduate

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A Continuing Pattern… (from the Left)

“ICE officials said the operation targeted people with deportation orders and those with criminal histories. More than 60 percent of those picked up had either an arrest or a conviction, the agency said.”26

“When I went in I wanted to see all of these criminals… I wanted to see where were these dangerous people that they had picked up off the street and put them in a detention center. I didn't see them… I saw hard working men. Some more literate than others. I even saw some who are mentally disturbed and have mental issues. I saw some who have physical issues, who are sick. I saw some who weren't quite sure what was going on.”
- Representative Frederica Wilson

“I saw a tent already constructed… They're going to be moving in there tomorrow…. This is a huge structure that's two stories tall, made out of plexiglass… It has space for 800 people, 400 pounds, 800 to sleep… So every time this facility gets crowded, in order to stay in compliance, they're going to have to build another one. And it only takes 14 days.”
- Representative Frederica Wilson

“It was like somebody went in there yesterday and put on a whole new coat of fresh paint. You could even smell the paint. They… cleaned the glasswork. That's what they do… I think what is really happening is what the detainees are telling their families and their attorneys. And I think that we cannot lose sight of that, and that's why it is important for us to show up, to let them know they were coming to have oversight.”
- Representative Frederica Wilson

“Dozens of men crammed into 9x9 intake rooms for anywhere between 12 and 48 hours, according to people she spoke to. They are there in those rooms with all of those other men, eating, sleeping, and going to the bathroom. In that room that's that small, sleeping on the floor, having to urinate and defecate in front of other people in that small room… This is a facility that was built to a capacity for 882, and they currently hold 1,111 detainees.”
- Representative Debbie Schultz

“They said about 60% have committed crimes, 40% who have not.”
- Representative Debbie Schultz

The Nitty Gritty:

Immigration officials are arresting people and flooding immigration facilities causing terrible and inhumane conditions like at the Krome facility.
There has not been enough oversight and not enough people released to avoid overcrowding.
Policies are framed as increasing detentions for people who commit crimes, but roughly 40% of any given immigration facility is filled with people with no criminal history.
Releases for people with no criminal history come down to three major issues in jails and centers like this: (1) too high bond, (2) backlog on cases for people seeking parole, asylum, etc. (i.e. not enough judges), and (3) Lack of access to good attorneys.
There are no new policies being enacted to address these three major issues.

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Three Main Potential Solutions:

There are clearly inhumane conditions being created in immigration detention centers and here are potential solutions:

President Trump’s plan to use our tax dollars to direct funding away from other areas like education, military, or infrastructure, and create more facilities to hold more people.
President Trump or his Administration releases the 4,346 people being detained in immigration facilities who passed the asylum screening into the United States on parole to adjust for overcrowding or releases some of the 44% of people who have no criminal history.
Immigration attorneys fight for their clients to be released based on the inhumane conditions, like under the 8th Amendment for “cruel and unusual punishment” (see my article from last Tuesday).

If you got this far, which choice would you make and why? Or do you have another idea that might be better? Let’s discuss!

Best wishes,
~ Ringo

News Sources

From the Right:

The New York Post
The Daily Wire

From the Left:

The New York Times
The New Yorker

From the Center:

Reuters
The Wall Street Journal

Do you have any questions about this post?

Everything You Need to Know About What is Happening in the Krome Detention Center

What is Happening

The results of the most recent May 1st inspection of the Krome facility are consistent with folks’ complaints:9

It is important to understand this before we go into anything further.

The Facts:

A look at the REAL Numbers Reported by ICE:

Why is all this happening?

Let’s break it down (from the Right)

A Continuing Pattern… (from the Left)

The Nitty Gritty:

Three Main Potential Solutions:

Best wishes,
~ Ringo

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Everything You Need to Know About What is Happening in the Krome Detention Center

What is Happening

The results of the most recent May 1st inspection of the Krome facility are consistent with folks’ complaints:9

It is important to understand this before we go into anything further.

The Facts:

A look at the REAL Numbers Reported by ICE:

Why is all this happening?

Let’s break it down (from the Right)

A Continuing Pattern… (from the Left)

The Nitty Gritty:

Three Main Potential Solutions:

Best wishes,
~ Ringo

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What is Happening

The results of the most recent May 1st inspection of the Krome facility are consistent with folks’ complaints:9

It is important to understand this before we go into anything further.

The Facts:

A look at the REAL Numbers Reported by ICE:

Why is all this happening?

Let’s break it down (from the Right)

A Continuing Pattern… (from the Left)

The Nitty Gritty:

Three Main Potential Solutions:

Best wishes,~ Ringo

News Sources

What is Happening

The results of the most recent May 1st inspection of the Krome facility are consistent with folks’ complaints:9

It is important to understand this before we go into anything further.

The Facts:

A look at the REAL Numbers Reported by ICE:

Why is all this happening?

Let’s break it down (from the Right)

A Continuing Pattern… (from the Left)

The Nitty Gritty:

Three Main Potential Solutions:

Best wishes,~ Ringo

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Best wishes,
~ Ringo

Best wishes,
~ Ringo