Concentration Camp Guards Increasingly Bloodthirsty – The Tuesday AM Quickie 5/5/26
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ICE Concentration Camp Guards Increasingly Bloodthirsty
Guards in Trump’s immigrant concentration camps are beating and gassing prisoners with increasing frequency, according to internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement records that the Washington Post obtained. The documents include at least 780 incidents where staff in ICE camps “used physical force or chemical agents” against prisoners. Per the Post:
As ICE’s crackdown on illegal immigration has flooded detention centers with record numbers of detainees, guards inside those facilities have increasingly resorted to acts of physical force, The Post’s analysis of the reports found. Detention guards have used punches, kicks, takedown maneuvers, restraint holds and restraint chairs, as well as less-lethal weapons such as Tasers and pepper spray, according to the reports.
During the first year of Trump’s second term, detention staff used force 37 percent more times than the previous year, the reports show. The number of people subjected to force rose even more sharply, to 1,330 individuals — a 54 percent increase from the previous year, under President Joe Biden — as officers increasingly used these tactics with groups of detainees, the reports show.
In the same period, the detained population of these facilities increased 45 percent, according to population figures estimated by Maryland-based research group Relevant Research, based on its analysis of ICE’s publicly released data.
“Why are they resorting to this use of force in such bigger numbers?” said Jeff Schwartz, a police trainer and associate professor of law and justice at Rowan University in New Jersey, after reviewing The Post’s findings. “It could be the overcrowding, it could be the lack of staff, it could be the lack of training — or a combination of all of them,” he added.
I have another possibility: it could be that guards want to hurt immigrants. It’s well-documented that ICE is recruiting white nationalists to hunt immigrants in the streets; is it that far of a stretch to say that the same hate motivates people to take jobs inside the camps as well? In other cruelties, ICE has for seven months failed to pay for the medical care of its concentration camp prisoners. ICE is also refusing to authorize surgery for prisoner Andrea Pedro Francisco, 23, who needs to get an ovarian cyst removed – a fact ICE recently confirmed with an ultrasound. Nonetheless, they’ve let her suffer constant pain for the three months they’ve imprisoned her.