Last month, a group of civil rights advocates toured three U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers in Louisiana, part of a network of nine facilities that have processed tens of thousands of people this year under President Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown. 

Among those on the tour were Kerry Kennedy, president of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, and Anthony Enriquez, our vice president of U.S. advocacy and litigation. Both described troubling conditions inside the facilities and shared their concerns about a system built for mass detention rather than justice.

Listen to their full account here.