Miami's Krome North Processing Detention Center is currently holding more than double its capacity, with detainees enduring poor and overcrowded conditions, according to reports by several news outlets in the last few days. This situation is exacerbated by the Trump administration's aggressive immigration enforcement policies, which have led to a surge in detention numbers across the U.S.
The Krome center, originally designed for 600 detainees, has seen upwards of 1,200 individuals in recent months, according to a report by Axios. "A lot of people are just signing orders to be removed, because the conditions are so horrible," said Paul Chavez, director of the litigation program at Americans for Immigrant Justice, to the news outlet.
