"Pedro Cantú Ríos, who suffers from a lung condition, said he was left gasping for air. He stumbled to his cell and put a towel over his face. 'I thought I was going to die,' he said."
"The incident was one of at least 780 in which staff members at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities used physical force or chemical agents to control immigrant detainees during the first year of the Trump administration."
"The Post reviewed hundreds of internal ICE emails, called the 'Daily Detainee Assault Report,' which summarize every incident in which staff members reported using physical force against detainees at 98 ICE detention facilities."
"Taken together, the reports offer an unprecedented look at the treatment of ICE detainees as the Trump administration has carried out the biggest expansion of immigration detention in decades."
Pedro Cantú Ríos, a 68-year-old detainee, experienced a chemical attack in an Alaska jail, leaving him gasping for air. This incident is part of a larger pattern, with over 780 documented uses of physical force or chemical agents against detainees in ICE facilities during the Trump administration. Internal ICE records reveal a troubling trend in the treatment of detainees, coinciding with a significant expansion of immigration detention. The reports provide insight into the harsh conditions faced by those held in these facilities.
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