ICE detainees living in cells with non-functioning toilets, sinks: Report

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : "In its response sent to the Inspector General earlier this month, ICE claimed that staffing has increased at the facility and is at over 80 percent of the recommended staff.
45% : In December 2020, ICE issued a "contract discrepancy report" that specified shortages of medical employees with issues elsewhere in the facility.
45% :ICE also claimed in its response that the inspector allegedly staged at least one of the photos in the report, which showed detainees retrieve drinking water from a faucet that is used to fill mop buckets in a common area.
44% : Earlier this week, Newsweek reported that ICE is detaining an unknown number of Ukrainian refugees under a policy of detaining asylum-seekers that was introduced as a pandemic safety measure.
44% :ICE issued several disagreements with aspects of the inspection and subsequent report and said the Office of the Inspector General "ignored facts presented to it in order to achieve preconceived conclusions.
44% : Most, if not all of the plumbing and hygiene issues have been fixed or will be in the process of being fixed by the end of March, ICE said.
39% : The report came a week after more than 100 House Democrats sent a letter to the Biden administration calling on ICE to suspend detention expansion, phase out private for-profit facilities and conduct a review of all ICE detention facilities.
37% : ICE alleged that video surveillance showed after the picture was taken, one of the detainees poured out the water and did not drink it.

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