Irish citizen detained one month in barbaric ICE facility because: "You look Mexican"

..."They told the doctors to cut out all of my [subdermal] piercings. ... “I told the nurses specifically: ‘I do not consent to this.’ But they put lidocaine [for numbing] on my face and on the back of my neck. The thing is it is only supposed to work for 40 minutes; I was lying there for well over an hour and they just started doing it. I was shackled to the bed. I couldn’t move. “The guards who brought me there were laughing at me. They were just like: ‘Oh, that’s gnarly.’ I kept saying: ‘I can feel this. It hurts.’”

Holy fucking shit.

This man describes a completely arbitrary arrest process followed by being packed into a 10 man cell with 100 people in it and one toilet, consistently being denied food and hygiene, being punished for speaking to a lawyer and watching someone who'd been begging staff for their heart medication die of a heart attack right in front of him.

It's important for Americans to hear this man's story in his own words: https://archive.is/XpPIO

Funnily enough there's a lot of Irish heritage in Mexico. During the Mexican-American war the Irish who were on the American side thought "this is messed up" and swapped to Mexico's side.

This news story is horrible, but the headline is funny with this context.