As Immigrant Arrests Surge, Complaints of Abuse Mount at America's Oldest Detention Center in Miami

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : "ICE takes its commitment to promoting safe, secure, humane environments for those in our custody very seriously.
62% : "To my knowledge, everything was just frozen and people were told to go home," said Brané.
59% : But more recently, the facility appeared to have turned a corner, with ICE even inviting the media to tour a first-of-its-kind mental health facility.
56% : After Trump took office, ICE had orders to round up migrants with few options on where to send them.
51% : To address the shortage, ICE this month published a request for bids to operate detention centers for up to $45 billion as it seeks to expand to 100,000 beds from its current budget for about 41,000.
51% : " ICE, in a statement, didn't comment on specific allegations of mistreatment but said it adjusts its operations as needed to uphold its duty to treat individuals with dignity and respect.
50% : Other facilities have caps on the number of detainees Krome is just one of five facilities that ICE directly runs -- the others are in Buffalo, Arizona and two in Texas -- and can house detainees for more than 16 hours.
49% : That's up 31% from just before Trump took office.
46% : As part of the build out, the federal government for the first time is looking to hold migrants on U.S. Army bases -- testing the limits of a more than century-old ban on military involvement in civilian law enforcement.
45% : Barely 11,000 migrants were encountered at the U.S.-Mexican border in March, their lowest level in at least a decade and down from 96,035 in December 2024, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
45% : ICE refused to disclose Krome's current capacity because of security concerns.
41% : The incident occurred as a group of some 40 detainees waited almost eight hours to be admitted into the facility as jail officers miscounted the number of individuals handed over by ICE, according to the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak publicly.
39% : The office went through four ombudsmen in two months as Trump officials surged arrests with no apparent plan on where to send them.
26% : A few hundred protesters showed up, some holding pictures of migrants "kidnapped" by ICE and signs that read "American Gulag, American Shame" and "Immigrants Make America Great." This month, Miami Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, a Democrat, wrote Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem requesting a tour of the facility.
23% : Since Trump returned to the White House, three detainees have died while in ICE custody -- two of them at Krome.

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