US EditionAttorney for Family of Third Migrant Who Died at Camp East Montana Investigating Death
The ACLU report details over 80 violations including physical abuse, sexual assault, and denial of legal counsel at Camp East Montana, which houses nearly 3,000 detainees.
- This month, the American Civil Liberties Union released a 19-page report backed by Human Rights Watch that documented more than 80 human rights violations at Camp East Montana, Fort Bliss.
- Detainees at Camp East Montana report tents flooded with sewage, spoiled food, denied insulin, while attorney visits are limited to ten per day and ICE requires seven-day notice for congressional oversight.
- Multiple sworn accounts allege severe physical and sexual violence, including a teenager hospitalized after beatings and guards crushing detainees' testicles, with detainees Samuel, Eduardo, and 'Isaac' reporting abuse.
- After the reported death of Geraldo Lunas Campos, the Campos family filed a wrongful-death lawsuit seeking to block deportation of witnesses, and a federal judge will hear arguments on January 27.
- Fort Bliss's WWII role as a temporary internment site housing nearly 3,000 people in Camp East Montana, with a 5,000 design capacity and plans for an 8,500-capacity jail, intensifies national concern.
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Detainees say they heard Cuban man being slammed to the ground before his death in ICE custody
In this June 25, 2018, file photo, an entrance to Fort Bliss is shown, in Fort Bliss, Texas. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images, FILE) (EL PASO, Texas) — Several detainees at a Texas immigration detention facility claim in sworn court declarations that they heard a Cuban immigrant, whose death was later ruled a homicide, pleading for medication shortly before hearing what sounded like guards slamming him to the ground. Geraldo Lunas Campos died in ICE cus…
Attorney for family of third migrant who died at Camp East Montana investigating death
EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) -- ABC-7 reported less than two weeks ago about the third reported migrant death at Camp East Montana inside Fort Bliss, where 36-year-old Victor Manuel Diaz died by presumed suicide, according to ICE. The attorney representing Diaz's family from Nicaragua, Randall Kallinen, says they want to start an investigation into what led to his death because they haven't been told exactly what happened. Diaz's body was taken to Will…
ICE accused of overseeing "unfolding humanitarian crisis" at Texas detention center
Following the death of a detainee, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding facility in Texas is facing renewed criticism for reported human rights abuses. The American Civil Liberties Union interviewed 45 detainees at Camp East Montana at Fort Bliss in El Paso, issuing a report in December that detailed than 80 human rights abuses, including “physical and sexual abuse, medical neglect, and intimidation to self-deport.” Related “We want t…
ICE allegedly committing over 80 human rights violations against migrants at Fort Bliss
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is facing mounting scrutiny after human rights activists and civil liberties organisations alleged that migrants detained at Fort Bliss, Texas, were subjected to severe mistreatment, including physical abuse, sexual violence and the denial of basic human needs.According to a 19-page investigative report supported by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Human Rights Watch, detainees at the El …
🚨 ICE Agents are Deliberately Crushing the Testicles of Boys and Men They've Detained in a Texas Torture Facility
Get more from Shaun King in the Substack appAvailable for iOS and AndroidGet the appI want you to read this slowly, because the words are so vile your brain will try to rush past them.According to a December 8th, 2025 letter sent to ICE by the ACLU of Texas, Human Rights Watch, and other human rights groups, detainees at Fort Bliss described officers beating people, engaging in abusive sexual contact, threatening them to force deportations to co…
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