feed the wretches LOAF three meals a day.
Posted on 07/21/2018 11:11:02 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Immigrant families detained in an Oregon prison for illegal entry by the Department of Homeland Security have been given meals that violate their religious beliefs while enduring brutal conditions, according to a court filing.
The Associated Press reports that William Teesdale, the chief investigator for the federal public defender’s office in Oregon, wrote in a court filing Friday that more than 100 detainees at a federal prison in Sheridan, Oregon, are subject to strip searches in front of other inmates, overcrowded cells, and poor heating with little clothing to wear.
Some of the detainees are from India, Nepal, Guatemala, Mexico and China, according to the court documents, which allege that Hindu refugees were offered only beef and pork meals and were forced to attempt to subsist off the scant vegetable portions.
“We are dying day by day inside here,” one detainee said, according to Teesdale.
“In the night, it gets so cold in the cell and when l was in boxers and T-shirt, I was terribly cold,” another said in a habeas corpus filing.
An ICE spokeswoman told the AP that the agency has no comment on the condition in the Sheridan facility due to pending litigation. An attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union described the conditions as “chaos, confusion and massive human suffering,” in a statement.
One detainee has already attempted suicide at the facility, according to officials, and a court filing reveals that at least one other migrant at the prison is experiencing suicidal thoughts.
“I have to cry in my pillow,” one immigrant wrote in his habeas corpus brief. “I have suicidal thoughts but then I remember my family. My family is all that keeps me going.”
Federal Public Defender Lisa Hay warned the prison's warden and local ICE officials that the facility continues "to fall below the minimum standards set by our government for immigration detention and, in my view, violate the Constitution by imposing punitive detention on civil detainees," according to the AP.
The Trump administration has faced criticism for the mass detention of migrants suspected of illegal entry as asylum claims and other determinations of legal status are made. The policy is part of the administration's zero-tolerance policy for illegal entry, enacted earlier this year.
Last month, President Trump signed an executive order ending the separate detention of children and parents after facing widespread outrage over the forced separation of families.
Then you should have stayed at home....
E.T. Go home. Your local cuisine should be available there.
People don’t care but they have to keep it in the News
Tough cookies! Eat and shut up, you morons!
How terrible. They shouldn’t have to put up with such an indignity. They should go home where they won’t have to.
feed the wretches LOAF three meals a day.
That’s a shame. Let’s get you back home soon.
yep Prison is Hell(except this one) ,so don’t break the Law
Where did I put my small violin again?
Ride Your Camel out of the US.
I am a member of a little-known religion whose members subsist strictly on filet mignon and beef Wellington. If I crash the border in Guatemala I expect to be fed accordingly. Yeah, that'll work.
Didn’t know anyone from Latin America had food restrictions for religious reasons, tells me it must be the religion of pieces.
“One detainee has already attempted suicide at the facility, according to officials, “
Well, that’s a fix I never thought of.
And it’s Oregon, where suicide is legal an encouraged by the democrat legislature and governor.
Oh no! The food wasn’t kosher?
That MUST be the problem.
“We are dying day by day inside here,” one detainee said, according to Teesdale.
Find this detainee and deport it quick so it can live
“I am a member of a little-known religion whose members subsist strictly on filet mignon and beef Wellington”
Where and when do you have your initiation rites?
I want to join.
:-)
i love it when criminals complain about the free handouts they get at taxpayers expense
Don’t eat it, you will survive.
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