Trump official acknowledges 9 detainee deaths in ICE custody, disputes overspending

[LiberalArkie]

May 14, 2025

WASHINGTON – Democratic lawmakers clashed with the head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement over funding, deaths while in federal custody and information the agency shares with the public while in pursuit of one of President Donald Trump's most high-profile second-term priorities.

Rep. Lauren Underwood of Illinois, the top Democrat on the House Appropriations subcommittee on homeland security, accused the agency May 14 of spending funds it doesn’t have while still falling short of unrealistic deportation goals.

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9 deaths in ICE custody

Congress has required ICE to publicly post information since 2018 when detainees die in custody. But Underwood and Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-Texas, each asked how many detainees had died since the Trump administration took office Jan. 20 because the public postings were delayed 90 days.

Escobar called overcrowding and treatment in detention centers “tantamount to human rights abuses.”

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/14/ice-detainee-deaths-custody-spending/83619379007/

[Lovie777]

1. There are more.............

[LiberalArkie]

3. And, are they still sterilizing boys and girls like the first time?

[LauraInLA]

4. Oh, God, I missed that! What happened?!

[LiberalArkie]

8. This was way back in Trumps first term when they were separating the kids from the adults and holding them

the the large "dog pens". In Arizona? New Mexico? I don't remember. A lot of kids that were never put back with their families.

Around the same time as the Epstein stuff? I think..

[LauraInLA]

10. But were the children sterilized???

[GP6971]

17. That's some really good fiction there.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

20. Sorry, alerted wrong post. Can't alert right one.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

18. rump licker troll is back. So dim.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Credible link?

[Lonestarblue]

9. I don't remember anything about the boys, but several migrant women had forced hysterectomies.

They were either forced to see doctors or were sick and asked to see a doctor. Some were then told they needed surgery, and they had unnecessary hysterectomies. This article is from 2020.

“On Tuesday evening, a harrowing report surfaced after a nurse in Georgia, Dawn Wooten, accused Immigrant and Customs Enforcement officials at the Irwin County Detention Center of denying detainees there essential health care and sending women to a doctor who allegedly performed unnecessary “mass hysterectomies.”

“I had several detained women on numerous occasions that would come to me and say: “Ms Wooten, I had a hysterectomy. Um, Why?’” Wooten told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes. “I had no answers as to why they had those procedures.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/mass-hysterectomies-ice-happened-trump-s-watch-they-re-america-ncna1240238

[markodochartaigh]

14. Excellent link. And for the children who

were never found:

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/12/16/us-lasting-harm-family-separation-border

[Bernardo de La Paz]

21. That was it! Thanks for the (horrifying) reminder. Deserves reminding people. . . .nt

[pandr32]

2. This is horrendous.

[MLWR]

6. Escobar called overcrowding and treatment in detention centers "tantamount to human rights abuses."

I call "9 detainee deaths is ICE custody" 9 murders to put in the column for which Krasnov is responsible.

[MLWR]

7. Escobar called overcrowding and treatment in detention centers "tantamount to human rights abuses."

I call "9 detainee deaths is ICE custody" 9 murders to put in the column for which Krasnov is responsible.

[Hornedfrog2000]

11. Well, he literally killed an extra 700,000 americans

During covid, so add some more to the tally.

[Mr. Sparkle]

12. Time for prosecutions and the death penalty for the companies involved

[Joinfortmill]

13. I suspect there are more. U. S. reputation is ruined for a generation.

[Dave says]

22. A generation? Likely 3, at least.

[BidenRocks]

15. What good deeds will it take?

The Marshall Plan?
Berlin Airlift?
Disease (?) eradication?
Foreign aid?
Food?
America IS Trump! Most of us don't give a shit about anyone besides themselves.
Even fellow citizens. We are that bad. Trump made it acceptable to be an asshole!

This is like Attaboys vs Awshits
One Awshit wipes out all the Attaboys