Durbin Reveals Devastating Insights Into Florida ICE Detention Facilities In Exclusive Site Visit

CHICAGO – Today, U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, revealed devastating insights into U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities, following staff site visits to two Florida immigration detention facilities in June. The visits to Krome North Service Processing Center and Federal Detention Center (FDC) Miami provide new, incriminating insight into the cruelty of the illegal Trump mass deportation agenda, including overcrowding, inhumane conditions, no access to medical care, and difficulty accessing legal counsel.
On the exclusive site visits, Durbin released the following statement:
“My staff’s visits to the ICE detention facilities reaffirm what we’ve already known: The cruelty and inhumanity of the Trump Administration’s illegal mass deportation scheme knows no bounds.

“Immigration detention is at a crisis point as the Administration ramps up enforcement and doubles down on lengthy detention of people without criminal backgrounds. People are being disappeared, and the Trump Administration is barring lawful congressional oversight. These actions don’t make our country safer, and the Trump mass deportation system is designed to punish immigrants who pose no threat.

“I will keep doing everything I can do bring these abuses to light.”
Key observations from the site visits include:
For a PDF copy of the devastating insights into the detention facilities, clickhere.

In May, Durbinreleasedinsights from visits to two facilities in Louisiana andescalatedcongressional oversight of the Trump Administration’s aggressive expansion of immigration detention, which has created a major financial boon for private prison companies.
Earlier this year, Durbinreleaseda revealing investigative report on inadequate care in Customs and Border Protection (CBP) facilities andpressedforfurther investigationinto deficient medical care in CBP detention facilities after whistleblower reportsallegedsystemic failures by DHS to ensure proper oversight of its medical care contractor.
Durbin continues to actively investigate care in ICE detention facilities, which he initiated with letters to ICE and GAO.A June 2024 reportfrom the American Civil Liberties Union, Physicians for Human Rights, and American Oversight found that 95 percent of documented deaths in ICE custody between 2017-2021 were likely preventable.
This oversight work was prompted by thedeathof Anadith Danay Reyes Álvarez, an eight-year-old Panamanian girl, at a CBP detention facility in Harlingen, Texas, on May 17, 2023.

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