Thomas said the conditions and treatment by BoP were worse than Ice detention: “They were not prepared for us whatsoever.”
He and other detainees were placed in an area with dirty mattresses, cockroaches and mice, where some bunkbeds lacked ladders, forcing people to climb to the top bed, he said.
BoP didn’t seem to have enough clothes, said Thomas, who got a jumpsuit but no shirt. The facility also gave him a pair of used, ripped underwear with brown stains. Some jumpsuits appeared to have bloodstains and holes, he added.
Each detainee was given one toilet paper roll a week. He shared a cell with another detainee, and he said they were only able to flush the toilet three times an hour. He was often freezing and was given only a thin blanket. The food was “disgusting slop”, including some kind of mysterious meat that at times appeared to have chunks of bones and other inedible items mixed in, he said. He was frequently hungry.
“The staff didn’t know why we were there and they were treating us exactly as they would treat BoP prisoners, and they told us that,” Thomas said. “We were treated less than human.”
He and others requested medical visits, but were never seen by physicians, he said: “I heard people crying for doctors, saying they couldn’t breathe, and staff would just say, ‘Well, I’m not a doctor,’ and walk away.” He did eventually receive the psychiatric medication he requested, but staff would throw his pill under his cell door, and he’d sometimes have to search the floor to find it.
HOU HAVE STAYED TOO LONG AND ARE A BURDEN ON OUR ECONOMY, THEREFORE YOU MUST STAY LONGER AND BE AN INCREASING BURDEN ON OUR ECONOMY.
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Thomas, an engineer at a tech firm, had never had any problems visiting the US under the visa waiver program. He had initially planned to return home in October, but badly tore his calf, suffered severe swelling and was having trouble walking, he said. A doctor ordered him not to travel for eight to 12 weeks due to the risk of blood clots, which, he said, meant he had to stay slightly past 8 December, when his authorization expired.
He obtained paperwork from his physician and contacted the Irish and US embassies and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to seek an extension, but it was short notice and he did not hear back, he said.
“I did everything I could with the online tools available to notify the authorities that this was happening,” he said, explaining that by the time his deadline to leave the US had approached, he was nearly healed and planning to soon return. “I thought they would understand because I had the correct paperwork. It was just a couple of days for medical reasons.”
Fuck that god damned smurf. Let him rot in prison. He wants to lick America’s balls? Then let him stay there and feast on their rancid cocksweat. We don’t want him back. Anyone setting foot in that god damned terrorist state should stay there, they are tainted and not fit to rejoin basic human civilization.
ummmmm. I hope your not from ireland.
Three months detention = three months profits for the prison.
Don’t come to this Nazi camp.
One would think that MAGA would be enraged at all the waste, fraud, and abuse in this process of inhumane torture, their tax dollars being wasted.
Bureau of Prisons
Europeans figuring out what brown people in the West have been enduring forever
Eh, no
“Brown People” don’t get treated like this as a rule in “the west” and anyone claiming this is full of shit.
Yeah, in western Europe you’ll find racists gasp just like you’ll find assholes all over the world. It’s not a systemic issue and no, brown people haven’t been treated like this since a very long time.
Stop making shit up
Tell me you’re not a person of colour without telling me you’re not a person of colour
I’m not white and I can tell you that border and immigration is a fucking Russian Roulette wheel of racist wankers.
I’ve had to ban every Swede I’ve ever added to my discord because they refuse to stop saying the N-word Every other sentence.
That’s 5 Swedes to 1 American that I’ve banned for racial slurs. Y’all racist as fuck.
Discord racial slurs =/= border and customs holding conditions.
It speaks to the quality of the people.
I have learned that the Swedish just tend to be more racist than people from other countries, so are Bulgarians, and the Polish, although the latter 2 are mostly bigoted against other Europeans.
Maybe you should ask yourself why “your discord” attracts so many racists, regardless of their nationality.
The Mexicans, Canadians, and all but one American were cool out of about a hundred people.
But 5 Swedes in a row can’t stop using slurs.
Gee, I wonder what the common denominator there is.
Why would anyone ever set foot in that third world fucking shithole? This ain’t even new, anyone who willingly goes there since circa 2001 deserves everything coming to them- they have spliced their shithole culture into every orifice of the planet, there’s zero plausible deniability, if you go there and willingly give them even more money, fuck you, don’t come back, you’re tainted and we don’t want anything to do with you.
He has a girlfriend in the US. He was thinking with his penis
Why would anyone ever set foot in that third world fucking shithole?
Money, mostly.
