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TELL CONGRESS: ICE prisons like Alligator Alcatraz and Camp East Montana run on abuse, inhumane conditions, and cruelty. The death of another ICE prisoner and the record 66,000+ people in brutal ICE detention facilities call for immediate action. Sign the petition: Investigate and shut down ICE prisons!

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Camp East Montana in El Paso, Texas, the largest immigrant detention camp in the U.S., is the latest ICE prison gaining national attention for its horrid conditions. After visiting East Montana, Rep. Veronica Escobar denounced the foul-tasting drinking water, rotten food, and unlivable sanitation conditions ICE is subjecting prisoners to.^1,2

This month, one man detained at Camp East Montana and other detention facilities died after being transferred to a local hospital. At least 30 people have died in ICE custody under Trump this year, the deadliest year in at least two decades.³

The inhumane conditions in ICE prisons are shocking and widespread, from Camp East Montana to Alligator Alcatraz, to detention centers in Illinois, Pennsylvania, California, and beyond. Human rights groups have called on Trump, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, and ICE to immediately shut down Camp East Montana⁴ — but ICE spokespeople continue claiming conditions at their prisons are exemplary.⁵

Sign the petition: Investigate and shut down Trump’s ICE prisons! End the horrible, inhumane treatment of people in immigrant detention.

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Rep. Escobar, who represents El Paso in Congress, said, “Despite claims from DHS about the inhumane, abhorrent conditions at facilities like Camp East Montana being ‘categorically false,’ my own visits and discussions with detainees prove otherwise.”⁶

The abuses are seen across ICE prisons: disappearances at Alligator Alcatraz;⁷ beatings at Camp East Montana;⁸ widespread, secretive mistreatment at the east coast’s largest ICE prison, Moshannon Valley Processing Center.⁹

ICE currently holds a record 66,000+ detainees in its prisons, and the agency wants to further expand its abusive facilities to warehouse-like “mega detention centers.”^10,11

Trump’s mass deportations dragnet is taking people away from their families and communities, and throwing them into torture centers. Congress must launch a full investigation and end this abuse.

Sign the petition: Shut down Camp East Montana, Alligator Alcatraz, and all inhumane ICE prisons!

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Joey and the Demand Progress team

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Sources:

1. Reuters, “Migrants at largest US detention camp face foul water, rotten food, congresswoman says,” November 11, 2025.
2. ACLU, “Human Rights Groups Urge ICE to End Immigration Detention at Fort Bliss Military Base, Halt Abusive Third-Country Deportations,” December 8, 2025.
3. Rep. Ramirez Press Release, “Ramirez, Tlaib Statement on Death of Illinois Resident at North Lake Processing Center in Michigan,” December 18, 2025.
4. ACLU, “Human Rights Groups Urge ICE to End Immigration Detention at Fort Bliss Military Base, Halt Abusive Third-Country Deportations,” December 8, 2025.
5. NBC News, “Hundreds of alleged human rights abuses in immigrant detention, report finds,” August 5, 2025.
6. El Paso Matters, “Guatemalan held at East Montana Detention Facility dies after months of medical treatment under ICE custody,” December 9, 2025.
7. Miami Herald, “Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site,” September 16, 2025.
8. ACLU, “Human Rights Groups Urge ICE to End Immigration Detention at Fort Bliss Military Base, Halt Abusive Third-Country Deportations,” December 8, 2025.
9. Asian Pacific Islander Political Alliance, “Shut Down Moshannon,” 2025.
10. CBS News, “ICE's detainee population reaches 66,000, a new record high, statistics show,” November 6, 2025.
11. NBC News, “'Mega detention centers': ICE considers buying large warehouses to hold immigrants,” November 7, 2025.

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