ICE bans hugging inside California’s largest detention center. Families are fighting back
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/04/ice-california-detention-contact-visits
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/04/ice-california-detention-contact-visits
26 Comments
theherk@lemmy.world · 74 pts · 11d
What kind of sad sad person is against hugging?
ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world · 72 pts · 11d
People who are disliked by their entire family, and who were the social pariah at school, and who are despised by their colleagues (even though most of them are horrible people too), and who have strong sociopathic tendencies, and who revel in the misery of others to distract from their own misery and self-loathing.
People like this:
tanisnikana@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 11d
You know, this might be a bit much, but I think I’d consider my life complete if I saw Steven Miller go into the fencing position from an onset of blunt force trauma to the head.
Not saying that I’d be the cause of that situation, but I’d be the cause of the popcorn in the room.
WesternInfidels@feddit.online · 11 pts · 11d
I was certain you meant "fetal position" but I looked it up and today I learned.
Professorozone@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 11d
I was wondering the same thing. Thanks for the reference.
tanisnikana@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 11d
Mmhmm.
mx_smith@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 11d
Yeah I would love to see some grounded jazz hands on him
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 11d
"Absolute cinema"
FerretyFever0@fedia.io · 10 pts · 11d
I personally hate being touched by anyone. I almost never let anybody touch me. That's pretty different from banning other people from hugging. That's really fucked up.
theherk@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 11d
Completely understand. No issue with people that don’t want to hug, but being against others hugging is terrible.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 11d
Same kind of person who'd downvote that comment, I'd reckon.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 11d
Personally I'm generally against people hugging me. But I'm an autist who thinks eye contact is too much physical contact so...
frongt@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 11d
People trying to prevent passing of stuff like drugs or weapons. It's pretty common in jails.
Don't get me wrong, this whole thing is fucked up and none of those people should be there, but this story is just to play on your emotions. This shouldn't be an issue because they shouldn't be there at all.
cheers_queers@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 11d
these are not jails though, they're immigrant detention. they are not criminals but are being treated as worse than felon citizens.
Amuro_eat@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 47 pts · 11d
Going out of their way to bring cruelty
pbhj@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 11d
It's the USAmerican way, apparently. Endorsed by the majority of voters.
CocaineShrimp@sh.itjust.works · 34 pts · 11d
Sounds like they're violating the 8th amendment by imposing unusual and cruel punishment...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
pbhj@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 11d
I mean, add it to the large pile of constitutional violations the Trump regime have made. They need to be made to care. As the military kow-towed to them without even a pause, violating their sworn oath, there's not much left but the thinnest of remnant of rule of law.
volore@scribe.disroot.org · 15 pts · 11d
"yeah but I'm sure the dehumanizing Nazi machinery of the state will never be turned against me, so the cruelty is ok, it's even preferable!" -- half of my very purple state
Words can not describe how much I despise paying taxes to these people.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 5 pts · 11d
the only bright side to being unemployed is I am providing little to no monetary support to this stuff.
meco03211@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 11d
https://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/no-touching.gif
Steve@startrek.website · 12 pts · 11d
Most of these people have not been accused of crimes.
wheezy@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 11d
The "crime" of which is a crime of paperwork. It's a civil offense on the level of an unpaid parking ticket.
Edit: my brain filtered out the "not" in your sentence. But I guess the reply still works.
Steve@startrek.website · 5 pts · 11d
Exactly. We are putting families in prison for missing paperwork.
Oh well, i dont have to worry about it because I’m white.
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler /s - I am in fact worried despite being white. :::
daychilde@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 11d
So it's hell enough that having a physical reminder of what has been taken away causes even more to want escape? That's not the flex you think it is, there, buddy.
Jorsh@beige.party · 6 pts · 11d
@MicroWave
Cruelty is the point, etc. Fuck ICE.