While the trolls peddle lies and BS, this is what happens when you dehumanize people. You get ICE agents and vigilantes eager to hurt human beings. Especially those that fascists like Hitler and Trump focus on, by creating an “other”, where Americans full of hatred and anger can focus that hate on those who have been dehumanized! For Hitler, it was Jews, Gypsies, and others. With Trump, and Americans eager to have a target, it’s undocumented human beings.
Things like this happen in societies where fascists play on the anger and hatred that is their rallying cry. This is what is happening in our country. All because Trump understood, if he called upon the dark angels of human nature, he knew America was ripe for his fascist power grab.
Incident in which migrants were shackled with hands tied of one succession of alleged abuses at jails in Florida
www.theguardian.com
Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “like dogs”, according to a
report published on Monday into conditions at three overcrowded south Florida facilities.
The incident at the downtown federal detention center is one of a succession of alleged abuses at Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (Ice) operated jails in the state since January, chronicled by advocacy groups Human Rights Watch, Americans for Immigrant Justice, and Sanctuary of the South from interviews with detainees.
Dozens of men had been packed into a holding cell for hours, the report said, and denied lunch until about 7pm. They remained shackled with the food on chairs in front of them.
“We had to eat like animals,” one detainee named Pedro said.
Degrading treatment by guards is commonplace in all three jails, the groups say. At the Krome North service processing center in west
Miami, female detainees were made to use toilets in full view of men being held there, and were denied access to gender-appropriate care, showers, or adequate food.
The jail was so far beyond capacity, some transferring detainees reported, that they were held for more than 24 hours in a bus in the parking lot. Men and women were confined together, and unshackled only when they needed to use the single toilet, which quickly became clogged.
“The bus became disgusting. It was the type of toilet in which normally people only urinate but because we were on the bus for so long, and we were not permitted to leave it, others defecated in the toilet,” one man said.
“Because of this, the whole bus smelled strongly of feces.”
The 92-page report, “‘You Feel Like Your Life is Over’: Abusive Practices at Three Florida Immigration Detention Centers Since January 2025,” documents that people detained at Krome North Service Processing Center (Krome), Broward Transitional Center (BTC), and the Federal Detention Center (FDC)...
www.hrw.org
One may wonder how a government could encourage “hatred of the other”, and how so many citizens could possibly agree with elevating the dark angels of human nature. But, isn’t that what History teaches us, that people always fail to learn from History? When so many lack self understanding, you get unidentifiable heavily armed goons rounding up people everywhere; you get abuse of those detained. You get an America where “it can’t happen here” is a cruel joke, for naive suckers who lack all self understanding…..
