"I cycled every day and I was arrested by an ICE officer and kind of kidnapped, I guess, off the street and taken to Krome Detention Center, Stinton told the Telegraph, adding: The conditions in Krome were the most inhumane thing that I've ever experienced in my life. I'm sorry. Had nowhere for anyone to sleep. They weren't feeding people and they were very abusive to the inmates."
"The holding cell that they had us in for almost eight days was meant to have 10 people in it and there was at least 100 men. We were like sardines all just stuck on like a concrete, cold concrete floor. I want people to know that it's not just criminals that are being taken. It's like normal everyday people. Like myself, like I I had a correct visa. I had all my paperwork together. I had a social security number. I paid my taxes. I've never been in trouble with the police before in my life, either in America or Northern Ireland."
Lee Stinton, a 45-year-old hairdresser from Lisburn, County Antrim, was arrested by ICE in Florida while cycling to work. He possessed a correct visa, social security number, and paid U.S. taxes. Federal agents told him, "You look Mexican," during the arrest. He was taken to Krome Detention Center and held for around a month in severely overcrowded and unsanitary conditions. Detainees slept on cold concrete floors, food was inadequate, and staff behaved abusively. Medical needs were neglected, including a man who collapsed from a heart attack. Stinton was deported back to the UK.
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