After Reps. Grijalva, Stanton, and Ansari found detainees packed inside a federal ICE holding facility, Mesa says it cannot enforce its own fire-safety rules there.
There is a history of federal detention centers either collapsing or burning down due to poor conditions. Most of these were related to arson or prison riots (at least from the publicly available information).
What you discuss here is a completely different issue. These facilities were never meant to detain people. Beyond the social implications of what is being perpetrated, ICE has been given carte blanche to make purchases (most of the buildings bought are well over asking price), which means they’re intentionally ignoring the safety issues.
We can certainly get into the weeds of how we got to this point, but that’s a horse of a different color and a whole can of worms built for long-form conversation.
That distinction matters. This is not just “bad conditions” inside buildings already designed for detention.
It is a whole infrastructure problem: facilities being repurposed, safety rules treated as optional, and human beings forced into spaces where the system has already decided accountability can wait.
There is a history of federal detention centers either collapsing or burning down due to poor conditions. Most of these were related to arson or prison riots (at least from the publicly available information).
What you discuss here is a completely different issue. These facilities were never meant to detain people. Beyond the social implications of what is being perpetrated, ICE has been given carte blanche to make purchases (most of the buildings bought are well over asking price), which means they’re intentionally ignoring the safety issues.
We can certainly get into the weeds of how we got to this point, but that’s a horse of a different color and a whole can of worms built for long-form conversation.
That distinction matters. This is not just “bad conditions” inside buildings already designed for detention.
It is a whole infrastructure problem: facilities being repurposed, safety rules treated as optional, and human beings forced into spaces where the system has already decided accountability can wait.
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