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groundloop

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1. From later in the article we learn he wasn't even allowed to take his blood pressure medicine

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sat Aug 30, 2025, 05:34 PM

Aug 30

Over the course of at least a week — during which Lee alleges Velasquez hadn't been allowed to change clothes, was denied access to his blood pressure medication, and wasn't allowed to self-deport — Velasquez's name was missing in ICE's detainee locator.

tRump and his masked brownshirts are evil as hell. It got to the point where this man asked to leave the US and out of pure malice was forced to stay in ICE purgatory.

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From later in the article we learn he wasn't even allowed to take his blood pressure medicine groundloop Aug 30 #1

There's no money for private prisons/detention centers PatSeg Aug 30 #2

There's no money for private prisons/detention centers PatSeg Aug 30 #3