People with disabilities held without a bed, sleep, or basic hygiene

Reported cases describe people with disabilities—including a veteran on suicide watch, an autistic child, a transgender woman denied hormone therapy, and detainees with diabetes or brain tumors—held without adequate beds, sleep, or hygiene at facilities such as Krome in Miami, Eloy in Arizona, Dilley in Texas, and ICE sites in Los Angeles and Florida. Some reported denied insulin, inhalers, or showers, sleeping on concrete floors or hospital gowns. First documented in February 2025, the pattern became recurring by July 2025, though it now makes up a smaller share of reported stories than earlier, with February 2025 the peak month.

“All she kept asking me was, ’Why can’t we go home?’ And I said, well, based on the fact that we’re Canadian, this is what the government has decided that they are going to do with people like us that are living in the United States. So, we have to stay here until Papa and our lawyer can get us out. That’s all I could tell her. I had no idea what else to say.”