The incident described is Only one of many degradation acts and violence listed in the 178-page document “You Feel Like Your Life Is Over“. Organizations gathered certificates of 17 women and men who from January to June 2025 were sent to three full Florida centers – Federal Detement Center (FDC) in Miami, Krome North Service Processing Center in the western outskirts of the city and Broward Transitional Center (BTC) in Pompano Beach.
They report permanent piston, icy goals without beds, arbitrary placement in isolates and refusal to basic medical care.
In Krome, women used toilets in front of men and did not have access to hygiene articles, and some of the newcomers spent up to twelve days in a chilled room, which they called La Hielera – “refrigerator”. In turn, in the parking lot of the same center, buses with migrants stood over a day, while the passengers had bound legs, and the only Toi-toi quickly clogged, filling the vehicle with the odor of faeces.
Report: terrible conditions and lack of responsibility
The most tragic chapter concerns the Broward Transitional Center. It was there that 44-year-old Marie Ange Blaise died on April 25. The American Immigration Agency and the goal claimsthat the cause of death is still examining, but family lawyers talk about many weeks of ignoring chronic diseases and a lack of a doctor.
The report also outlines a broader context. From the beginning of the second term of office of Donald Trump The average daily number of people in immigration arrests increased from 37 thousand. 500 in 2024 to 56 thousand 400 in mid -June 2025 – the highest level in US history, with nearly 72 percent The detainees have no criminal past.
The overflow in Florida served the state authorities for the argument for the rapid construction of a new giant camp in the heart of Everglades. The complex baptized by the governor Ron Desantis and the Trump administration as “Alligator Alcatraz” – surrounded by a natural moat with alligators and can ultimately accommodate 5,000. people – already accepts the first migrants, and parliamentarians of the Democratic Party define him with a “humanitarian disaster in his infancy.”
The authors of the report emphasize that until the publication, the agency did not answer detailed questions about the allegations. Only a private contractor Akima Global Services, managing Kome, refused to comment.
“The escalation of anti -immigration actions of this administration terrorizes the entire communities and tears families, which in multicultural Florida is particularly cruel,” says Katie Blankenship, lawyer and co -founder of Sanctuary of the South. “The chaotic and absolute detention and closing of people literally kills and creates a crisis of human rights, which will weigh in this state and the whole country for years,” we read in “The Guardian”.
HRW, AIJ and Sanctuary of the South Call Congress for abolishing mandatory detention in migration matters, limiting agency financing and establishing an independent mechanism of supervision over detection plants. In view of the death of Marie Ange Blaise and an ankle increase in the number of detainees, organizations also appeal for an urgent audit of medical and sanitary conditions in all institutions in the south of the USA.
“Thousands of people are detained without a sentence in conditions that do not even meet the minimum standards of human dignity,” the report was written. If the Federal Government and Florida authorities do not take repair actions quickly, The authors warn against a spiral of abuse, whose tragic symbol can become the mentioned Alligator Alcatraz – The latest, but certainly not the only link in the system, which today, as migrants say, “receives the feeling that life has any value.”
