Attempted suicides, fights, pain: 911 calls reveal misery at #ICE’s largest #DetentionFacility

The emergency calls from a #Texas #immigration #DetentionCenter included repeated suicide attempts by detainees, seizures, injuries from fights and a pregnant woman in pain. Data from more than a hundred 911 calls, interviews with detainees and court filings offer a portrait of overcrowding, medical neglect, malnutrition and emotional distress.

By MORGAN LEE, RYAN J. FOLEY and MICHAEL BIESECKER
Updated 1:18 PM EST, March 6, 2026

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — "The calls to 911 poured in from staff at #CampEastMontana in Texas, the nation’s largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, at a rate of nearly one a day for five months, each its own tale of pain and despair."

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911 calls reveal pain, despair at ICE'S largest detention camp

The calls to 911 poured in from staff at Camp East Montana, the nation's largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, in its first months of operation in El Paso, Texas. The emergencies included repeated suicide attempts by detainees, seizures, injuries from fights and a pregnant woman in pain. Data from more than a hundred 911 calls obtained by The Associated Press, interviews with detainees and court filings offer a portrait of overcrowding, medical neglect, malnutrition and emotional distress. A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson rejected claims of subprime conditions, saying detainees receive food, water and medical treatment in a facility that's regularly cleaned.

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USA ICE facilities are not detention camps; no legal basis for them.

They are *concentration* camps for illegal rights violations and harsh punishments for civilians.

@yuhasz01 @DoomsdaysCW If you have no trial, no release date, are denied medicines or sanitation, then they are death camps. Constructing and running death camps for racial, ethnic, or national groups is a capital felony under USC Title 18 Chapter 50A Section 1091(a). Whether in peace or war times. So much as planning to do so is also covered under that law. With no statute of limitations.