Fort Bliss ICE Detainee Dies In Custody

A 48-year-old man has died while in ICE custody at Fort Bliss after failing to receive appropriate medical care. The detention center is called Camp East Montana, and it's a massive tent camp at the Fort Bliss military base in El Paso, Texas. The Fort Bliss detention center needs to be shut down! It was used during World War II to intern people of Japanese descent, and now is the nation's largest detention center that can hold up to 4,000. Trump has also funneled billions from DHS to the US Navy to build internment camps to each hold up to 10,000 detainees. They must be stopped, because they aren't capable of caring for such a large population of people in custody.

The ACLU and other rights groups has done numerous interviews with the Fort Bliss detainees and they report: "Immigrants held in this facility are facing extreme abuse. People are suffering beatings and sexual abuse by officers. They're being given inadequate and rotten food and foul water. They've been denied soap, toilet paper, and adequate medical care. Access to legal counsel has been restricted. One teenager was beaten so severely that he lost consciousness and had to be taken to the hospital in an ambulance in an incident that led to hearing loss."

The goal of DHS is simple: they make the immigrants so miserable that they give up their rights and self-deport. The reports of extreme abuse are sickening, and so far there's been no one held accountable for it. The Fort Bliss detention center must be shut down!

Here's more reporting with some of the stories of the immigrants.