Senators 'Concerned' About Restraints After Years of Immigration Brutality
Mainstream media just now discovered that ICE uses full-body restraints, prompting 11 Democratic senators—including Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker—to demand answers. The AP highlights the 'near-total secrecy' around these practices. What it fails to emphasize, however, is that secretive, abusive practices have been ICE's modus operandi since its inception, not a new development requiring 11
senators to find their keyboards in 2025. These 'serious human rights concerns' haven't exactly been secret for the last two decades of bipartisan immigration cruelty, with countless reports from groups like the ACLU and Human Rights Watch detailing similar abuses. One might wonder if their outrage is genuinely about the inhumane treatment, or merely another performance piece for constituents who
seem to forget that these same senators often vote to continuously fund the very agencies they're now 'shocked' to discover are brutal. How many AP investigations does it take to acknowledge systemic cruelty that was always there, just waiting for the right news cycle?