Abuse Detailed at Florida Migrant Detention Centers

A series of reports by Human Rights Watch and other advocacy groups reveal pervasive and degrading abuses at three ICE-operated immigration detention centers in South Florida, including Krome North, Broward Transitional, and the Federal Detention Center in Miami. Detainees described being forced to eat while shackled, enduring overcrowding, frigid and unsanitary conditions, and denial of medical care, with some abuses linked to preventable deaths. Women were reportedly held in male facilities without privacy or gender-appropriate care, while newly arrived detainees spent days on cold floors or on buses with blocked toilets. The situation has been attributed to a fundamentally broken detention system, worsened by President Trump’s intensified deportation policies and facility overcrowding. Advocacy groups have called for urgent accountability and reforms, warning that these conditions violate U.S. and international human rights standards. ICE has not yet responded to the allegations.