Jonathan Blitzer
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 14 Jul
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Thanks again so much for having me.
At this point, there are more than 60,000 people being held in ICE detention centers across the country.
A few months ago, it was as high as 70,000.
To give listeners a sense just of an immediate context for that, when Trump first took office in January of 2025, that detention population was around 39,000.
So it's exploded in the last year and a half.
And it's coincided with, unsurprisingly...
a whole host of horrors that have been reported from inside these detention centers and all kinds of statistics that demonstrate just how dangerous the conditions inside have become, the most obvious of which is that deaths in ICE detention are way up.
There have been 52 since Trump took office a second time.
The comparable numbers that we've seen are things that haven't emerged in decades.
And then when you look even more specifically at those deaths, a significant number of them
are suicides, to give you a sense, of course, of just how utterly desperate and horrified people are inside detention.
Yeah.
Ray came to the United States in 1994, along with 30,000 other Cubans who fled the country that year alone and came on makeshift rafts.
It was known as the rafters crisis.
And he spent when he was first interdicted by the U.S.
Coast Guard in 1994, he spent about 11 months on the U.S.
naval base, Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
Before he was eventually released to live with his father, who had emigrated to the United States in 1980.
His father lived in El Paso.
And the conditions there with his father grew tense.
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