Human Rights Watch – July 21, 2025 12:00AM EDT | News Release US: Immigrants Abused in Florida Detention Sites Pervasive Overcrowding, Medical Neglect, Degrading Treatment In one particularly degrading incident, detainees at FDC were forced to eat while shackled with their hands behind their backs. “We had to bend over and eat off the chairs with our mouths, like dogs,” said Harpinder Chauhan, a British entrepreneur who had been detained by ICE at a regular immigration appointment. Chauhan, who suffers from diabetes and heart disease, said he was denied insulin at various points during his detention at Krome, FDC, and BTC, including at BTC for nearly a week, after which he collapsed and was taken to a hospital.
My letter to reps:
The government needs to stop incarcerating people in inhumane concentration immigration facilities where required access to medical care for emergency and chronic conditions is being denied. Holding anyone for any reason in these conditions is depraved and immoral. What are you doing to investigate and stop the immorality?
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