Opinion | Silky Shah: Why America still needs to abolish ICE. - NBCNewsTHINK
exposed her indifference toward the policy in 2018, and reminded us of the administration’s complete disdain of the humanity of people seeking asylum. Today, Immigration and Customs Enforcement is still targeting and detaining hundreds of thousands of people, and separating loved ones from their families and communities.
This suggests two things: The Trump administration has become more adept at hiding its abuses, and the problem with ICE was never about any one specific policy. Indeed, a recent report has proven once again that the agency is, at its core, rotten.exposing both egregious conditions in ICE detention centers as well as the agency’s failure to identify and respond to abuses.
These findings merely add to a pattern of well-documented institutional medical neglect and abuse at ICE that proves no one is safe in its custody.ICE is an agency that was created in part to criminalize and target immigrants for incarceration, deportation and exclusion from their communities and their families.
Immigration detention is fraught with alarmingly poor conditions, a lack of accountability and a culture of violence that results in system-wide abuses. In September, whistleblower
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