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USA: New Findings Reveal Human Rights Violations at Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” and Krome Detention Centers
Amnesty International today released a new report documenting cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment at two immigration detention centers in Florida: The Everglades Detention Facility (“Alligator Alcatraz”) and the Krome North Service Processing Center (Krome).
The report, Torture and enforced disappearances in the Sunshine State: Human rights violations at “Alligator Alcatraz” and Krome in Florida, reveals human rights violations that, in some cases amount to torture, occurring at Krome and “Alligator Alcatraz” within an increasingly hostile anti-immigrant climate in Florida under Governor Ron DeSantis, whose administration has intensified criminalization and mass detention of migrants and people seeking safety. Findings were gathered during a September 2025 research mission.
“These findings confirm a deliberate system built to punish, dehumanize, and hide the suffering of people in detention,” said Ana Piquer, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for the Americas. “Immigration enforcement cannot operate outside the rule of law or exempt itself from human rights standards. What we are seeing in Florida should alarm the entire region.”
More than 10,000 people held in solitary immigration confinement by Ice in a year
Researchers highlighted the case of Charles Leo Daniel, who died in Ice custody last year after spending more than 13 years of his life in solitary confinement in different prison facilities, including his final four years in Ice detention. The 61-year-old from Trinidad and Tobago, who died of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, had served one of the longest periods in isolation in Ice custody since 2018, according to a report from the Center for Human Rights at the University of Washington.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/17/ice-solitary-confinement-trump
Family says critically ill man was pressured into deportation order after ‘Charlotte’s Web’ sweep
Enamorado has end-stage renal failure and needs nearly five-hour-long dialysis sessions three times a week. Missing an appointment can cause serious health problems that manifest within hours or days — including heart attack and death.
But Enamorado said that after immigration officers stopped him, they put him in a van and transported him more than five hours away without treatment. By the time he arrived in Georgia, he said his feet were swollen and his stomach felt sick.
“I wanted them to take me to the hospital the day I came here,” he said through an interpreter, “but they told me no.”
The next day, he said officers took him into a room and told him something worse — that he wouldn’t receive dialysis unless he signed a voluntary order for deportation.
“I told the officer if they give me dialysis, I’ll stay and fight my case, because dialysis is life or death,” he said. But the officers told him no, he said, telling him, “If you want to leave, sign. If not, you’re going to die here.”
Thinking about his newborn son and family — and how he had no way to contact them because he didn’t have their phone numbers memorized — Enamorado signed. Only then, he said, was he taken to a nearby hospital for a shortened dialysis session.
Attorney calls the account “classic duress”
Immigration attorney Jeremy McKinney took on Enamorado’s case after being contacted by a local immigration advocacy group. He said the account, if true, amounted to “classic duress” and could raise “a whole variety of potential torts” and legal issues.
In a statement to WFAE, the Department of Homeland Security called Enamorado a “criminal illegal alien,” citing past arrests for cocaine, marijuana and other “lethal drugs.”
But McKinney said Enamorado has never been charged with possession of anything beyond a small amount of marijuana when he was 18. WFAE could not locate criminal records consistent with the government’s statement.
