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Rep. Giménez to visit ICE detention centers in Miami after Herald uncovers harsh conditions Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article308401270.html#storylink=cpy
Miami Herald ^ | June 12, 2025 | Syra Ortiz Blanes and Claire Healy

Posted on 06/12/2025 7:41:37 AM PDT by Miami Rebel

Rep. Carlos Giménez plans to tour Florida facilities holding immigration detainees following a Miami Herald investigation into harsh conditions and use of force at the Federal Detention Center in Miami. The federal lawmaker said that he first learned about the reported conditions at FDC Miami when a journalist from the Washington Journal’s C-Span program asked him about the Herald story this morning. “I will be investigating those conditions,” said the Miami Republican during an interview on Capitol Hill. “Right now is the first I’ve heard of it.” The Federal Detention Center in downtown Miami has been housing detainees in civil immigration custody since February, when the Federal Bureau of Prisons signed a contract with United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement to house immigrants in prisons amid overcrowding at ICE detention centers. Six detainees told the Herald that officers had launched crowd-control grenades and sprayed what appeared to them as rubber bullets or pellets into a room with about 50 detainees in April in response to their protests over lack of water, food, and medication. The detainees said that they had begun to overflow toilets to get the attention of officers, and the room was full of water. At least two detainees filed lawsuits about the incident in May, which were signed by at least 30 detainees who say they were also present when it happened. “I keep reliving the explosions over and over again,” one wrote in the lawsuit. A judge dismissed the lawsuit without prejudice due to procedural errors. “It all felt like unnecessary torture.” Giménez said [...that he...] would “protest to the administration” if he found anything inappropriate. “If I find something that is wrong, or shouldn’t be, I’ll be the first to come out and say, ‘by the way I found something, this is what’s going on.’”

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KEYWORDS: carlosgimenez; clairehealy; concerntroll; cuba; florida; ice; lockhimup; miami; miamiherald; miamirino; rinosedition; syraortizblanes
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To: Miami Rebel
 
 
Sounds like the initiation for another front of lawfare to get started. Make an accusation about "conditions" - the media takes that bone and runs with it claiming an "outraged public demands action" then judges start swinging their gavels around.
 
 

21 posted on 06/12/2025 3:11:27 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: Miami Rebel

Harsh conditions like the pillow cases aren’t clean? No napkins with their meals? That kind of “harshness”? They should be in solitary confinement on a diet of bread and water in my view.


22 posted on 06/12/2025 6:05:10 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (President Trump is America's long-awaited SUPREME Commander in Chief. Deus Hoc Vult!)
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To: SMARTY

More ‘harsh’ than rape and murder??
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BINGO!


23 posted on 06/12/2025 6:06:13 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (President Trump is America's long-awaited SUPREME Commander in Chief. Deus Hoc Vult!)
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To: Chgogal

following a Miami Herald investigation
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A Marxist rat sheet if there ever was one. Unsuitable for the bottom of my parrot’s cage!


24 posted on 06/12/2025 6:09:47 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (President Trump is America's long-awaited SUPREME Commander in Chief. Deus Hoc Vult!)
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