Investigate the Abuse and Disappearance of ICE Detainees

In August, a federal judge ordered Florida and the Trump administration to cease operation of the so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” detention camp and relocate its population. However, since the closure of the facility, over a thousand men who were detained there cannot be located, and hundreds have no record in the ICE database at all.

The Department of Homeland Security has continually failed to provide adequate information about its detainees. Many of the immigrants sent to the CECOT torture prison in El Salvador remain missing. ICE has intentionally excluded transgender detainees from their reporting, putting them at even greater risk of abuse. Families and lawyers have struggled to find and contact those who have been snatched off the street by unidentified federal agents. DHS officials have even failed to provide information about the record-high number of immigrants who have died in their custody, including a former DACA recipient.

The abuse of detainees at ICE facilities has been widespread; 510 identifiable human rights violations have been reported, including sexual assault, medical negligence, and mistreatment of children and pregnant people. The U.S. government has a responsibility to protect the basic human rights of those in its custody. Demand your representatives launch investigations into these abusive ICE concentration camps to ensure that all detainees are sufficiently safe, accounted for, and given their due process rights.