
Watching the hundreds of migrant detainees crowd into Krome Detention Center in Miami, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) workers that run the facility soon realised how vastly outnumbered they were.
“There are 1700 people here at Krome!!!!,” one 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. Among staff, the real fear of a prisoner uprising remains.