DHS is committing human rights violations in our name. Its own Inspector General recently issued reports about horrific conditions in DHS facilities. In El Paso, the IG reported:

• Conditions . . . that represent an immediate risk to the health and safety of detainees
• Dangerous overcrowding among single adults
• Some of the detainees had been held in standing-room-only conditions for days or weeks
• Detainees . . . wearing soiled clothing for days or weeks
• Ongoing concern that rising tensions among detainees could turn violent

Elsewhere, the IG stated that there were “immediate risks or egregious violations of detention standards . . . including nooses in detainee cells, overly restrictive segregation, inadequate medical care, unreported security incidents, and significant food safety issues . . .” in ICE facilities.

Children and pregnant women sleep on gravel, “bombarded by pigeon droppings.” Immigrants are treated like criminals, shackled to beds in hospitals by DHS officers “…pressuring [doctors] to do something unethical.”

Like North Korea, Trump’s America refuses to respond to official complaints about human rights violations, shuns UN independent watchdogs and withdrew from the UN Human Rights Council last year.

Hardline extremist Ken Cuccinelli’s backdoor appointment as “Immigration Czar” will continue these travesties.

Congress Must Stop The Atrocities!