Immigrant women describe 'hell on earth' in ICE detention

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: USA Today

Published 4:01 a.m. ET March 23, 2025


Immigrant women say they were held "like animals" in ICE detention and subjected to conditions so extreme they feared for their lives.

Chained for hours on a prison bus without access to food, water or a toilet. Told by guards to urinate on the floor. Held "like sardines in a jar," as many as 27 women in a small holding cell. Sleeping on a concrete floor. Getting one three-minute shower over three or four days in custody.

"We smelled worse than animals," one detainee said. "More girls were coming every day. We were screaming, begging them, 'You can’t let them come.' They didn’t have space."

Four women were held in February at the Krome North Processing Center in Miami – a detention center reserved for men. ICE took the women into custody on alleged immigration violations, but none has a criminal background, according to a review of law enforcement records. They shared their experiences with USA TODAY on condition of anonymity, fearing retaliation by the government because they are still detained.

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/03/23/immigrant-women-hell-on-earth-trump-ice-detention/82029368007/

[Jim__]

1. Holding someone in that type of detention has to be illegal. We have to put a stop to trump's goons breaking the law.

[Shipwack]

15. We must try, but it's futile...

Too many people don't care about humans that have been "othered".

Of course, when they eventually come for them, there's no one left to protest.

They never read "First they came..."

[Fla Dem]

2. Disgusting, absolutely disgusting. This is not the United States. It's a 3rd world country ruled by a demon dictator.

[pimpbot]

3. unfortunately, trumpers love this

This story is like porn to the anti immigrant groups. Being cruel as possible to people not like them is what they have been taught, through social media, fox news, their church.

[KitFox]

19. Absolutely. The disturbing images coming from the R convention gleefully

holding and waving those Mass Deportation signs. How they loved Melania’s I Really Don’t Care Do You jacket. The threats to sanctuary cities for providing aid. Never a stretch to imagine how the Holocaust or the Inquisition happened.

[RazorbackExpat]

4. One outrage after another

BushCo, v. 2

[DENVERPOPS]

5. Hey BDRS

check out my comment on: "A comforting note from RogueSSA -"

[BumRushDaShow]

7. I had read the thread earler this morning but just spotted your latest reply on re-read

Thanks for the plug!

This whole story is horrifying.

[DENVERPOPS]

8. One problem on this website

is that every DUer on the website who live in the Eastern U.S. or even the Midwest has read the articles and commented before all of us on DU have even awakened for the day.......

Don't know there is any solution to that time zone difference.......bummer......

None the less, I for one, deeply appreciate your constant monitoring of things, and getting us critical information on what is happening that would never be seen otherwise. Please, Please, Please keep it up BRDS.........it makes a MAJOR difference in us staying tuned into what is happening, often in the shadows, where the RepubliCONS tend to operate since HW started in the 1980's........

[58Sunliner]

6. Torture.

[Justice matters.]

9. Just like Bergen-Belsen (NAZI concentration camp)

https://www.britishlegion.org.uk/get-involved/remembrance/stories/the-liberation-of-bergen-belsen

Picture at the link.

[Comrade Citizen]

10. Even worse aspect

Krome is operated by the Akima subsidiary of NANA Regional, an Alaska Native (Inupiat) Corp.
The junta is using Alaskan Indigenous - run prisons to harm Indigenous Women from other countries.

[bluestarone]

11. A good lawyer could get some answers here.

We need to get some good answers.

[Irish_Dem]

21. Good lawyer is becoming an oxymoron.

[Johnny2X2X]

12. I say this in everyone of these threads

It’s just a matter of time before mass graves are discovered.

This is pure evil and atrocities are occurring right now.

[C Moon]

13. What's with these asshole guards, etc. ? Does ICE just hire thugs and racist freaks for this?

"Are you a heartless bastard who doesn't give a crap about anyone but yourself?"
"Great. You're hired."

[LiberalArkie]

17. A job listing for Border Control people only entice certain type of people no matter what country is doing the hiring

[bronxiteforever]

14. Evangelicals made this torture happen. Never forget.

Their absence in this fight against this torture shows not only their acquiesce in it but their approval.

[Lonestarblue]

16. Trump/Musk have now resorted to torture of migrants.

German and Russian prison camps come to mind. I doubt these women are being fed anything but garbage. .

[Justice matters.]

18. "It can't happen here" has officially been edited to "It is happening here"

Re.: Nazi concentration camps.

[Magoo48]

20. Unfortunately, this brutality is done in all our names.

The longer we wait to rise up, the broader brush all Americans will be painted with.

[DallasNE]

22. We need photos to back this up nt