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Investigate and shut down abusive ICE prisons!

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    Investigate and shut down abusive ICE prisons!

    Petition to Congress:
    We urge you to do everything in your power to investigate and shut down vile, inhumane immigrant detention centers and stop DHS from building more prisons.

    The humanitarian situation in ICE prisons is dire.

    Physical and sexual abuse, medical neglect, and clandestine deportations are rampant at the largest ICE detention center in the country, Camp East Montana in Texas.1,2 Human Rights Watch said that conditions in three Florida detention facilities that hold thousands of people “flagrantly violate international human rights standards.”3 Detentions surged at the largest ICE prison in the northeast, Moshannon Valley Processing Center, which has a history of “cruel” treatment.4 Several people held at these facilities have died in the last year.

    Our lawmakers are complicit in this horrific immigrant detention system until Congress ends these widespread human rights violations. The House and Senate must take immediate action.

    Sign the petition: Investigate and shut down abusive ICE prisons!

    Lawmakers have called Florida’s most infamous ICE prison, Alligator Alcatraz, an internment camp.5 The makeshift detention center has become a symbol of ICE’s abuses and a sign of what’s to come if DHS continues expanding its prisons.

    ICE currently holds 70,000 people in detention — a record number. And DHS plans to spend $38 billion to turn warehouses into new mega-prisons to imprison tens of thousands more people.6

    Congress must put an end to the horrors of ICE facilities.

    Sign the petition: Investigate ICE prisons now and shut down ICE’s torture prisons.

    Sources:

    1. ACLU, "Detained Immigrants Detail Physical Abuse and Inhumane Conditions at Largest Immigration Detention Center in the U.S.” December 8, 2025.
    2. The Guardian, "Officers at Texas immigration detention facility accused of beatings and sexual abuse,” December 9, 2025.
    3. Human Rights Watch, "'You Feel Like Your Life Is Over',” July 21, 2025.
    4. Spotlight, "Immigrant detentions surge at Pa. center accused of abuse as Trump crackdown intensifies,” June 13, 2025.
    5. USA Today, "'Help me!' Democrats decry 'vile' conditions at 'Alligator Alcatraz' immigrant prison,” July 14, 2025.
    6. Reuters, "ICE to spend $38.3 billion on detention centers across US, document shows,” February 13, 2026.
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