BREAKING🚨 Self-deportations just hit 9,000 a MONTH, and detainees say SOLITARY CONFINEMENT is how ICE gets the signatures. A man held at the Eloy Detention Center in Arizona said a guard told him: "It's part of my job. I have to make your life miserable so that you request your own deportation." Other detainees at Eloy describe solitary confinement used the same way. An openly gay Russian man, an Afghan with ties to the former U.S.-backed government and an Iranian dissident all said isolation was being used to push detainees into abandoning their claims, and all three said being sent home could mean imprisonment or death. DHS and CoreCivic, which runs Eloy, deny anyone is isolated to pressure them into signing. Voluntary departures hit 89,494 cases as of May 1, compared with 11,977 in the last 16 months of the Biden administration. Monthly totals peaked around 3,000 under Obama and Trump's first term. They now exceed 9,000. Among people in detention, more than 10 times as many cases end in voluntary departure as at the end of Biden's term. In July 2025, ICE ended bond hearings for people who crossed the border illegally, meaning they sit locked up with no chance of release while their case drags. The Laken Riley Act extended mandatory detention to immigrants merely suspected of crimes as minor as shoplifting, even when the charges are later dropped. A federal judge in Oregon, Mustafa Kasubhai, wrote in February that immigration authorities were using the threat of long detention to "win the numbers game at the cost of debasing the rule of law." One man in that case had lived in the United States for 26 years and had legal work authorization. He was arrested on his way home from work and pressured for three weeks to sign papers agreeing to leave for Mexico. He refused, and an attorney got him released on bond. Signing means paying your OWN WAY out of the country and FACING FINES for any delay. The $2,600 and free flight the administration advertises apply to its app, not to this. If you appreciate my posts, it would mean the world if you followed my page. Thank you for being here.