There has been an uprising by prisoners in the ICE detention facility in Newark. About fifty inmates pushed down an interior wall after meals were hours late again. This is the place where the mayor of Newark and two Representatives were refused entry, which did raise suspicions about what ICE might be hiding.
It was not the first complaint about food. Inadequate, poor quality meals are provided irregularly. There is serious overcrowding, showers are scalding hot, family visits are cancelled abruptly without explanation.
None of this should be surprising. Miller is demanding 3000 arrests per week, an insane number that the existing infrastructure cannot possibly support. The system has gone into overdrive, like some faulty machine that endlessly stamps out items but nobody can switch it off. They keep loading new people in faster than they can get them out. And they just keep on doing this. There is no voice of reason at any point in the chain that is saying stop.
Earlier this week, two Representatives attempted an unannounced inspection of an ICE facility in New York, as is their legal right. Again, they were refused entry. It’s a fair bet that there are similar appalling conditions at this place and indeed everywhere around the country. ICE knows that the law counts for nothing in the USA and they can do whatever they want as long as the country is run by gangsters.
These conditions will not improve because nobody in power wants them to.