08/10/2025
These accounts are beyond horrible. The people responsible for this should serve a long prison sentence. It is domestic war crimes. Don't say you care about family values if you ignore a woman having a miscarriage after bleeding for days and begging for help. Don't claim to care about protecting children from human trafficking and abuse when you ignore children being trafficked and abused by a taxpayer funded gang of masked men and women.
āDrink Water and Shut Upā
Thereās no easy way to say this: ICE is running concentration camps. Not metaphorically. Not symbolically. Literally. Peopleāhuman beingsāare being abused, neglected, and broken in warehouses of despair across this country while we pretend to be too civilized for such a thing. And the latest report from Senator Jon Ossoff confirms what many of us have been screaming for years: the atrocities are real, and they are escalating.
Since January 2025, over 500 credible cases of abuse have been documented inside ICE detention facilities. And thatās just what they could verify. This isnāt paperwork gone wrong. This is violence wrapped in bureaucracy. This is cruelty as policy.
One woman, pregnant and terrified, started bleeding inside a detention center. She asked for help, over and over again. The guards didnāt check her vitals. No nurse came to examine her. They didnāt even offer her a place to lie down. What they gave her was a cup of water and a dismissive order: āDrink water.ā She bled for days. She sat with the slow horror of knowing that something was wrong inside her body, knowing that life was slipping out of her, and no one cared. When they finally took her to a hospital, it was too late. She miscarried. Alone. No support. No comfort. Just fluorescent lights, blood-soaked clothing, and the unrelenting silence of a system that didnāt see her as human.
Imagine the terror. Imagine being locked in a cold, overcrowded facility, stomach cramping, blood soaking through your pants, wondering if your baby is dying inside you, and knowing that the people with the keysāthe ones who are supposed to keep you aliveādonāt give a damn. That kind of suffering doesnāt just kill a pregnancy. It kills the soul.
And this woman was not alone. A ten-year-old child, a U.S. citizen recovering from brain surgery, was detained and denied any follow-up care. A four-year-old child with cancer was deported without ever being seen by a doctor. Thatās not incompetence. Thatās state-sponsored abuse. Itās not just heartbreakingāitās criminal.
This is not a fluke or a failure of the system. This is the system. These facilities are overcrowded by more than 13,000 people. Theyāre festering with disease, neglect, hunger, and psychological trauma. People are denied water, sleep, and sunlight. Legal access is routinely obstructed. Families are separated. Babies are crying for parents who never come. And the Department of Homeland Security has the gall to deny the allegations, insisting that everything is fine, that detainees are treated with care and dignity. Bu****it.
The report also confirmed something even darker: that dozens of detaineesāmany of them women, and some of them childrenāreported being subjected to coercive and predatory behavior by staff and contractors. Over 40 cases of sexual misconduct were deemed credible just this year. That includes survivors as young as 15. These werenāt vague complaintsāthey were detailed reports involving inappropriate touching, threats, retaliation, and in some cases, what would be considered outright assault if committed anywhere else in the country.
In at least four separate incidents, emergency calls were made from within a facility in Texasācalls that described violations so disturbing that local law enforcement was notified. And still, justice never came. In one case, the survivor was punished for speaking outāplaced in isolation, denied phone calls, legal access, and even basic hygiene. In another, the accused staff member wasnāt arrested or charged. He was transferred to another siteājust moved along, like a priest in a scandal, to keep the heat off the institution.
Letās be clear: when children in custody are reporting abuse and being ignored, that is not just a system failure. That is a crime scene. And every badge that turned away, every supervisor that shuffled paperwork, every agency that denied the obviousāthey are complicit.
Weāve heard this all before. And someone else knew it, too. Someone saw the writing on the wall long before it became politically convenient to speak up.
Willem Van Spronsen wasnāt a terrorist. He was a principled man who chose to act while the rest of the country debated the proper decorum for watching fascism unfold.
In July 2019, at 69 years old, Van Spronsen walked up to the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington, armed with fire and conviction. He tried to disable the transport buses used to move detainees like cattle. He wasnāt confused. He wasnāt misled. He saw the future clearlyābecause it was already here. And he refused to look away.
Before he was gunned down by police, Van Spronsen left a letter behind. He wrote: āThereās no denying it. The camps are here. Thatās what ICE is. Concentration camps. And they shouldnāt exist.ā He called himself antifaānot because it was trendy, but because he understood what antifascism actually means. It means action. It means resistance. It means choosing to disrupt the machine rather than let it devour children in peace.
He also wrote: āThis is not a su***de. I am willing to sacrifice myself for the children.ā
That was not a terrorist manifesto. It was a love letter to the future. A final act of moral clarity in a world drowning in cowardice.
And now, here we areāsix years laterāand everything he warned us about has exploded in full view. Women miscarrying alone. Children deported to die. Survivors of abuseāincluding kidsāignored or punished. The camps are here. The bodies are piling up. And the public, for the most part, is still arguing about semantics.
This is fascism. This is eugenics by bureaucracy. This is what happens when power goes unchecked and profit drives policy. Private contractors get rich. Politicians get votes. The public gets numb. And the detainees? They get pain, hunger, trauma, and, if theyāre lucky, deportation instead of a death certificate.
The violence of the state is never accidentalāit is functional. It protects wealth, suppresses dissent, and disciplines the poor. What the hell weāre all doingāscrolling, streaming, jokingāwhile women are bleeding out in cages and kids are being used as props in a fascist pageant.
So letās not be polite. Letās not dance around it. ICE detention centers are torture chambers for the poor. The powerless. The brown. The undocumented. And every time we hesitate to say it plainly, we betray the people inside.
Willem Van Spronsen saw the truth. And he tried to stop it.
We owe that pregnant woman something more than silence. We owe every child who cried for their mother in a freezing cell something more than a hashtag.
We owe the people still inside our rage, our solidarity, and our refusal to let this machine continue to grind.
