ICE officials warned of dangerous overcrowding

ICE's temporary holding facility in Manhattan was built to hold a handful of people for a few hours at a time. For several weeks, ICE packed it with up to 86 people without any beds, showers, or full-time medical staff. We're suing.

Trumpy did this. His insanity absolutely led to massive overcrowding. Because Trumpy is 1) batshit crazy and 2) absolutely 100% does not care what happens to brown people. This is really terrifying what happens on a regular basement. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

ICE is a for-profit machine paid for by U.S. taxpayers. "A source familiar with the matter tells TIME that the Trump administration recently set a new goal of making 2,000 daily arrests" time.com/article/2026...

Members of Congress, on the same day that story dropped, ended up doing a surprise oversight visit where they saw people crammed into holding cells "like sardines." azmirror.com/2026/04/10/i...

Wanted to share this Washington Post visualization of ICE holding-cell overcrowding because it’s so powerful. If you don’t think this administration needs to be frog-marched to prison after reading this … wapo.st/3R6bdmr (gift link)

For weeks, U.S. immigration officials alerted their colleagues about dangerous overcrowding at 26 Federal Plaza, where detainees were held in small rooms with no beds, showers or full-time medical staff. See what it looked like inside: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

ICE Considers Expanding Detention Space in 14 Locations—Including Guantanamo Bay and Virgin Islands time.com/article/2026...

📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋: ICE is planning a major expansion of the nation's detention system, seeking to build or enlarge facilities at 14 locations, including Guantánamo Bay, as it pursues the capacity to detain tens of thousands more people. #AbuseOfPowerWatch

By holding people for days in crowded rooms lacking basic features like beds & showers, ICE is gambling w/ people’s health & safety, said Dora Schriro, the founding director of ICE’s Office of Detention Policy & Planning. “How many hours can we get away with." www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Lots of great illustrations of the severe overcrowding in NYC ICE holding rooms, including 30 x 30-foot waiting rooms designed for a maximum of 22 people for a few hours. One was filled with 88 detainees for several days, only furnished with three open toilets. wapo.st/3R6bdmr #Inners #LastWord

@mollyjongfast.bsky.social @mlauriat.bsky.social DESPICABLE! You know it’s bad when ICE complains of overcrowding

ICE officials warned of dangerous crowding. See how they kept packing people in. - Washington Post washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

ICE has more than quadrupled the average populations of 82 holding centers during Trump’s second term. There are no beds, showers or full-time medical staff. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...