A journalist from The New Yorker is raising serious concerns about what he found inside the largest detention facility operated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Writer Jonathan Blitzer reports that thousands of people are currently being held in tent structures in the desert near El Paso, where he says the living conditions have deteriorated to a point that many would describe as inhumane.
According to Blitzer, those harsh conditions are not simply the result of overcrowding or neglect — he reports they are being deliberately used as a form of pressure to push detainees into accepting deportation.
The report, published in The New Yorker, brings renewed attention to the treatment of migrants held in federal immigration custody and raises questions about the standards being applied at the nation’s largest ICE detention site.
