‘Insane,’ ‘gross,’ ‘unsafe’: Emails reveal how ICE really feels about Manhattan’s overcrowded lockup 36.9%
The Independent - By Alex Woodward - 5/30/2026, 12:22 PM
Negativity Bias 36.4% - Anecdotal 32.6% - Appeal to Authority 26.2%
Last summer, as federal agents were grabbing immigrants moments after they left their court hearings, officers crammed as many as 100 people at a time into a makeshift detention facility on the 10th floor of a Manhattan skyscraper. After covertly recorded video footage showed detainees lying on cement floors with nothing but emergency... more