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At least 20 people have died in ICE custody under the Trump regime in
2025. It’s the deadliest year for ICE prisons in over two decades.^1 One
of the worst is in Broadview, IL.
A new lawsuit describes horrific conditions at the Broadview prison:
“There is blood, other bodily fluids, and hair in the sinks and on the
walls.” Hundreds of people are pushed into cells “like a pile of fish” and
“treated worse than animals.”^2
Trump’s violent “Operation Midway Blitz” invasion in Chicago is rounding
up families and neighbors by the hundreds and throwing them into unsafe
conditions at the Broadview detention center.^3
We’re demanding an immediate Congressional investigation into the
horrific, inhuman conditions at Trump’s ICE prisons from Broadview to
Alligator Alcatraz.
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The Broadview, IL prison is just one part of a nationwide network of
extrajudicial blacksites and torture centers.
The Trump admin’s abuses at the notorious Alligator Alcatraz are shocking.
Excessive heat, unlivable sanitation conditions, 30+ people in a cage with
3 toilets, some inoperable, with drinking spigots connected to toilet
tanks.^4
After observing the conditions at Alligator Alcatraz, Rep. Maxwell Frost
said, “What I saw made my heart sink.” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz
called it an “internment camp.”^5
The Miami Herald reported that ICE has disappeared over 1,000 people taken
into custody at Alligator Alcatraz. Families are panicked and lawyers
don’t know where the detainees are.^6
Senator Jon Ossoff documented hundreds of human rights abuses at ICE
prisons nationwide, including pregnant women sleeping on floors in
overcrowded intake cells and children denied medical attention.^7 Together
with Sen. Raphael Warnock, he has pressed the administration about the
alarming rate of deaths and abuse at ICE prisons.^8
As Trump deploys greater numbers of violent, masked ICE gangs to take more
people into custody, we need our elected leaders to launch a full-blown
investigation into ICE prisons and end these abuses NOW.
We’ve mobilized tens of thousands of people to demand an investigation
into the horrific conditions at ICE prisons, and we need to ramp up this
effort immediately.
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Sources:
1. NPR, "It's the deadliest year for people in ICE custody in decades;
next year could be worse,” [ [link removed] ]October 23, 2025.
2. Common Dreams, "New Lawsuit Details ‘Horrific and Inhumane Conditions’
in ICE Broadview Facility,” [ [link removed] ]October 31, 2025.
3. Ibid.
4. USA Today, "'Help me!' Democrats decry 'vile' conditions at 'Alligator
Alcatraz' immigrant prison,” [ [link removed] ]July 14, 2025.
5. Ibid.
6. Miami Herald, "Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the
grid after leaving site,” [ [link removed] ]September 16, 2025.
7. NBC News, "Hundreds of alleged human rights abuses in immigrant
detention, report finds,” [ [link removed] ]August 5, 2025.
8. Sen. Warnock Press Release, "Warnock, Ossoff Press Trump
Administration Over Deaths in ICE Custody,” [ [link removed] ]September 23, 2025.
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