ICE Sued Over 'inhumane' Conditions at Camp East Montana in West Texas

Monday, June 01, 2026

"Camp East Montana is nothing short of a civil rights catastrophe," Kyle Virgien, senior staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union's National Prison Project, said in a statement. "We're suing to ensure that no other human being has to endure the inhumane treatment that the Trump administration has inflicted on our clients."

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Great news: the courts will have a chance to rein in the abuses at Camp East Montana, the infamous tent camp built on Fort Bliss in El Paso. I have known seasoned veterans of this field who visited the camp and came away saying it was one of the worst ICE detention centers they'd ever been to.

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imo, the Trump administration considers that inhumane treatment as a feature.

New Report Shines Spotlight on Abuses and Growth in Immigrant Detention Under Trump (2020)

... The American Civil Liberties Union, Human Rights Watch, and National Immigrant Justice Center released a first-of-its-kind report today on immigration detention under the Trump administration: "Justice-Free Zones: U.S. Immigration Detention Under the Trump Administration."

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#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-05-30 11:26 PM | Reply

@#1

imo, cruelty to humans he dislikes seems to be the goal of Pres Trump..

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-05-30 11:28 PM | Reply

Stevie Wonder - Ngiculela-Es Una Historia - I Am Singing (1976)
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Lyrics excerpt ...

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This song, with lyrics in Zulu and Spanish [and English], talks about how love is what's music is all about.

Ngiculela ikusasa
Ngiyacula ngo thando
Ngicula ngelinyi langa
Uthando luyobusa
Jikelele kulomhlaba wethu

...

I am singing of tomorrow
I am singing of love
I am singing someday love will reign
Throughout this world of ours
I am singing of love from my heart

...

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-05-31 01:14 AM | Reply

The cruelty is the point.

Republicans know that showimg miserable brown detainees in their political ads will lure the faithful to the voting booths.

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-05-31 12:34 PM | Reply

#5 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-06-01 08:30 AM | Reply

The cruelty is the point.
Republicans know that showimg miserable brown detainees in their political ads will lure the faithful to the voting booths.

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-05-31 12:34 PM | Reply | Flag:
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Cruelty? Dems tell us these detainees crossed the desert and dangerous rivers and through jungles to get here (miraculously they kept their cell phones charged and working the whole way) and now they are getting a bed, 3 meals a day and 24 hour health care but they are subject to cruelty.

#6 | Posted by fishpaw at 2026-06-01 12:20 PM | Reply

Bashing someone's head into the wall, then calling it a suicide is cruelty.

#7 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-06-01 12:22 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

#6
Its 2026: People hailing from some surprisingly remote, seemingly off-track places carry cell phones.

The people some of us used to help with food and water in the Sonoran desert were not looking to bunk in a federal concentration camp.

You have a helluva lot of catching up to do, vato.

#8 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-06-01 12:28 PM | Reply

The cruelty is the point.
Republicans know that showimg miserable brown detainees in their political ads will lure the faithful to the voting booths.
#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-05-31 12:34 PM | Reply | Flag:(Choose)
Cruelty? Dems tell us these detainees crossed the desert and dangerous rivers and through jungles to get here (miraculously they kept their cell phones charged and working the whole way) and now they are getting a bed, 3 meals a day and 24 hour health care but they are subject to cruelty.
#6 | Posted by fishpaw at 2026-06-01 12:20 PM

MSNOW 'Found worms in food': Inside TX detention center holding hundreds of children 3 months ago

Wshington Post ICE facility detainees on hunger strike say food has maggots 3 days ago

#9 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2026-06-01 12:53 PM | Reply

"Concentration Camp"

LMAO

#10 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-06-01 01:46 PM | Reply

#10

A pretty non-controversial definition: "A concentration camp is a prison or other facility used for the internment of political prisoners or politically targeted demographics, such as members of national or ethnic minority groups, on the grounds of national security, or for exploitation or punishment" (en.wikipedia.org).

#11 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-06-01 02:26 PM | Reply

Por ejemplo (same source):

Prominent examples of historic concentration camps include the Nazi concentration camps (which later morphed into extermination camps), the British confinement of non-combatants during the Second Boer War, the internment of German, Italian, and Japanese Americans by the US during the Second World War, and the Soviet labour camps or gulag.

What do you think of adding the creation of America's Indian reservations? Just curious.

#12 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-06-01 02:28 PM | Reply

"Concentration".

As in they are concentrated into one miserable camp.

This is funny stuff. To Turds.

Maybe he thinks it means one of them camps where everyone stares real hard at things.

Like goats. (Based on a true story)

#13 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-06-01 02:32 PM | Reply

#11 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-06-01 02:26 PM | Reply | Flag:

This is hilarious. The prison camps in the discussion do not care one bit where someone is from, what their religion is or where their political sentiments lie. It's based on illegal entry into our country. I bet you I've been to at least ten countries that you won't sneak into without facing a similar backlash. It's past time that we quit letting our borders be trampled and do something about illegal immigration.

#14 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-06-01 06:04 PM | Reply

"It's based on illegal entry into our country."

As adjudicated in a court of law, or as alleged by the ICE guy getting the bonus?

#15 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-06-01 06:19 PM | Reply

"The prison camps in the discussion do not care one bit where someone is from"

Yes they do.

"illegal entry into our country" is a crime because of "where someone is from."

You lie to yourself, and you don't even realize you're doing it.

#16 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-06-01 06:25 PM | Reply

Bashing someone's head into the wall, then calling it a suicide is cruelty.

POSTED BY ALEXANDRITE AT 2026-06-01 12:22 PM | REPLY | FLAGGED FUNNY BY LFTHNDTHRDS

#17 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-06-01 07:33 PM | Reply