As Immigrant Arrests Surge, Complaints of Abuse Mount at America's Oldest Detention Center in Miami
Associated Press | By Joshua Goodman and Gisela Salomon
Published April 25, 2025 at 9:09am ET
MIAMI — As hundreds of migrants crowded into the Krome Detention Center in Miami on the edge of the Florida Everglades, a palpable fear of an uprising set in among its staff.
As President Donald J. Trump sought to make good on his campaign pledge of mass arrests and removals of migrants, Krome, the United States' oldest immigration detention facility and one with a long history of abuse, saw its prisoner population recently swell to nearly three times its capacity of 600.
“There are 1700 people here at Krome!!!!,” one U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement employee texted a co-worker last month, adding that even though it felt unsafe to walk around the facility nobody was willing to speak out.
That tension — fearing reprisal for trying to ensure more humane conditions — comes amid a battle in federal courts and the halls of Congress over whether the president's immigration crackdown has gone too far, too fast at the expense of fundamental rights.
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