Judy Chu

Claims · 44 wordsUnder Donald Trump’s watch, 56 people have died in ICE custody since January, roughly one person every 11 days.¹ Countless more individuals have suffered inside U.S. detention, denied medical care, served rotten food and dirty water, and held in filthy conditions that breed illness. Anecdote · 25 wordsFor the past 10 years, I have witnessed conditions firsthand at Adelanto ICE Processing Center, one of the deadliest immigration detention facilities in the country.²Anecdote Claims · 46 wordsDuring Trump’s second term alone, five people have died, four while in custody and one shortly after being released: ³Gabriel Garcia-Aviles, Ismael Ayala-Uribe, Alberto Gutierrez-Reyes, Irvin Cruz Nape, ⁴and Jose Ramos-Solano.⁵ These were fathers, grandfathers, and community members whose lives were needlessly and painfully cut short. Anecdote · 12 wordsIn June, I met directly with Adelanto detainees on a hunger strike.⁶Anecdote Claims · 71 wordsThey told me how they use their own underwear to filter worms out of their drinking water, how the food they have been given is rotten or raw, and how they have watched fellow detainees suffer and ultimately die from medical emergencies when all ICE offered them was ibuprofen. These conditions are so severe that, in July, a Federal judge ruled that ICE must immediately overhaul the living conditions in Adelanto.⁷ Positioning · 48 wordsThis is not an accident. It is a result of a system that Republicans in Congress continue to fund without demanding a single reform. They have handed ICE billions of dollars with no accountability for the deaths, abuse, or suffering happening on their watch. Americans don’t want this.PositioningUnearned certainty The ask · 29 wordsThey want ICE out of their communities. They want Congress to hold this agency accountable for the lives lost and the lives still at risk inside facilities like Adelanto.