"Dehumanizing": New Human Rights Watch Report Exposes Abuses in Trump's Immigration Jails

A new report titled "You Feel Like Your Life Is Over" details the dangerous and abusive conditions faced by immigrants held at three ICE jails in Miami, Florida, since Trump returned to office. One testimony describes how detention officers made men eat while shackled with their hands behind their backs. One man said, "We had to bend over and eat off the chairs with our mouths, like dogs." The report describes how detained immigrants are also routinely denied access to legal counsel and critical medical attention, while some have been held incommunicado in solitary confinement as an apparent punishment for seeking mental healthcare. Democracy Now! spoke with Belkis Wille, associate director in Human Rights Watch's Crisis, Conflict and Arms Division. The immigration "system is abusive and is treating immigrants in detention in a dehumanizing manner," she says.