Tacoma ICE facility is a modern dungeon

With the Trump administration's brutal crackdown on immigrants still in full swing, a new, scathing report from the University of Washington Center for Human Rights reveals that conditions at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma have gone from bad to worse, with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement continuing to lower standards for treatment of people seized by government agents.

According to the report, assaults and sexual abuse incidents continue at the Tacoma facility in what the director of the UW center calls a lawless space. This, of course, is on top of the unconstitutional actions of ICE that sweep people up and hold them in detention indefinitely without formal charges, legal representation or trial.

The Tacoma detention center, like others all around the country, may look modern, but they are not much different from medieval dungeons.

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