The Trump administration’s fast-paced mass deportation campaign has created extreme overcrowding at a detention center in Miami, where throngs of people have been forced to sleep on floors and kept for days in short-term holding areas.
The Krome North Service Processing Center is one of more than 140 facilities around the US where immigrants are being detained — and it is being stretched far beyond its capacity, interviews with people who were held at the facility and analysis of publicly available data suggests.
In the last two weeks of March, an average of nearly 1,500 people were packed inside Krome’s overnight ...