The account of a detained Canadian woman

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-det...

No mention of "torture" in the article?

you don't exactly need to be beaten with a hose. that said:

- psychological manipulation through prolonged uncertainty and withholding information

- dehumanizing conditions like freezing cells with inadequate blankets

- sleep deprivation

- physical suffering during a 24-hour transfer between facilities while shackled and confined in a prison bus

- humiliation and degradation particularly during pregnancy testing procedures where she was forced to squat over a communal toilet with others present

- arbitrary detention without any timeframe without clear legal justification despite having an approved visa and no criminal record

The German tattoo artist got 8 days of solitary confinement, like so many others in ICE detention, that ICE only ended after her mental breakdown and self-injury, and not out of ICE having respect for their own rules.

> Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.

https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025-03-14/green-card-holder-fr...

Mind you this is an individual with a legal visa, German citizen, and in theory the type of immigrant "good" for the US.

This raised all red flags to anyone even with legal status to go to the US.