[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 69 (Monday, April 20, 2026)]
[House]
[Page H2983]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ICE DETENTION CENTERS

  (Mr. LATIMER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LATIMER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to express my outrage over the 
conditions that are in place at the growing number of immigrant 
detention centers established by ICE and the Trump administration 
nationwide.
  Aside from holding individuals without judicial warrants, oftentimes 
detaining American citizens illegally, the centers clearly have not 
prioritized incarcerating just rapists and violent criminals as 
advertised. Reports from coast to coast reference centers where Members 
of Congress have visited and found insufficient bathroom access, 
inadequate sleeping accommodations, and general overcrowding, all 
dismissed by the management of ICE.
  In a month where this President has picked a fight with the Pope, the 
leader of the Catholic Church worldwide, and put himself on the social 
media meme as if he were a divine figure, these policies are far from 
divine, Christian, or humane.
  Obsessed by putting one's own name on buildings to assure everlasting 
fame, I assure you this name will never be forgotten as the architect 
and advocate of a system of inhumanity. The world is watching.

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