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ICE says it provides 'proper meals.' Detainees see crystalized jelly, rancid beans and iced bologna
RICHWOOD, Louisiana – Months after leaving immigration detention, Camila Muñoz can still remember the ice-cream scooper used to ladle food onto plastic trays and the "sour feeling" after every meal.
Hunger.
"You have to eat no matter what, or the night is going to get you," she told USA TODAY. "We were really hungry."
In Louisiana – a major hub of the Trump administration's mass deportation effort – detainees and their representatives say people in custody are going hungry on a diet of processed foods that are barely edible, often expired and never filling.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ice-says-provides-proper-meals-100135008.html