🚨 ICE Agents are Deliberately Crushing the Testicles of Boys and Men They've Detained in a Texas Torture Facility

Sworn declarations describe officers crushing detainees’ testicles, slamming heads into walls, and laughing while teens lose consciousness.

I want you to read this slowly, because the words are so vile your brain will try to rush past them.

According to a December 8th, 2025 letter sent to ICE by the ACLU of Texas, Human Rights Watch, and other human rights groups, detainees at Fort Bliss described officers beating people, engaging in abusive sexual contact, threatening them to force deportations to countries they have no ties to, denying meaningful access to lawyers, and withholding adequate food and medical care.

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And two separate men described federal agents doing something so depraved it has a name in any honest world:

They say officers grabbed their testicles and crushed them.

Not in war.
Not in a “battle.”
Not in some chaotic emergency.

In U.S. custody. In a detention facility. Under the American flag.

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This is not “excessive force.”
This is not “a few bad apples.”
This is sexual torture.

And if the U.S. government is torturing immigrants in tents on a military base, then we need to stop pretending we live in a moral nation. We need to stop pretending this is about “law” and “order.” This is about domination—and the system is using sexual humiliation as a weapon.

What the ACLU and human rights groups say is happening at Fort Bliss

The letter describes Camp East Montana as a massive tent camp at the Fort Bliss military base in El Paso, Texas, and urges ICE to end detention there. The groups say their summary is based on months of interviews with more than 45 detained people and is accompanied by 16 sworn declarations from immigrants held at the facility.

They describe “horrific conditions,” including:

• beatings and sexual abuse by officers against detained immigrants

• coercive threats and violence aimed at forcing deportations to “third countries”

• medical neglect

• hunger and insufficient food

• denial of meaningful access to counsel

And we’re not talking about a small site. The letter says Fort Bliss currently holds over 2,700 people, making it the country’s largest immigration detention center.

Let that sink in: the largest immigration detention center in America is being described by civil liberties organizations as a place of beatings, sexual abuse, coercion, and deprivation.

A teenager says officers beat him unconscious, broke his tooth, and crushed his testicles

One detained teenager, using the pseudonym “Samuel,” told lawyers he was beaten so severely that he had injuries across his body, lost consciousness, and had to be taken to a hospital in an ambulance.

The letter says Samuel’s right front tooth broke when he was slammed to the ground.

And then it gets even worse.

Samuel attested that an officer “grabbed my testicles and firmly crushed them,” while another officer “forced his fingers deep into my ears.”

Samuel said he was dizzy and fighting to remain conscious while an officer laughed at him for having a chipped tooth and told him he was “like a little girl.”

Weeks later, Samuel says the damage to his left ear is so severe he now has trouble hearing.

Family, that’s not detention. That’s not “processing.” That’s a beating with sexual humiliation layered on top—and then mockery while a teenager is slipping in and out of consciousness.

That is the behavior of a sadist. Not a public servant.

A Cuban immigrant says guards slammed his head into a wall “approximately ten times” and crushed his testicles

A second detainee, Isaac, a Cuban immigrant using a pseudonym, attested in a sworn declaration that officers told him he was going to be deported to Mexico.

Isaac says: “the guards hit my head” and “slammed it against the wall approximately ten times.”

Then he says officers grabbed and crushed his testicles between their fingers.

Soon after, he says officers handcuffed him and about 20 other people, put them on a bus, drove them to the border, and told them they could get off and cross into Mexico.

And then came the threat:

Isaac says officers told them: “If we don’t want to go to Mexico, then we would either be sent to a jail cell in El Salvador or Africa.”

Let me translate what that is in plain English: violence + sexual torture + forced-choice threats designed to coerce people into “voluntary” removal.

That’s coercion. That’s abuse. That’s the kind of tactic you expect from a dictatorship, not a country that pretends it cares about human rights.

The setting makes it even more grotesque

The letter says the Trump administration opened the sprawling tent camp in August 2025, despite warnings it would be a humanitarian disaster.

And it notes a historical horror that should make every American sick: Fort Bliss is described as a military base formerly used to intern people of Japanese descent during World War II.

So in 2025, on a site tied to one of America’s most shameful chapters, the government builds a massive tent camp to detain immigrants—and now human rights groups are documenting sexual abuse, beatings, and coercion.

America keeps repeating itself. The uniforms change. The targets change. The logic of dehumanization stays the same.

This isn’t just immoral. It’s illegal.

I’m going to keep this simple.

International law prohibits torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment. The United States has obligations here. And domestically, civil rights law and criminal law do not magically pause because someone is detained.

Sexual assault is not “enforcement.”
Beating people unconscious is not “policy.”
Crushing a teenager’s testicles is not “discipline.”
Threatening people with being shipped to “El Salvador or Africa” is not “procedure.”

This is the kind of abuse that should trigger immediate investigations, prosecutions, and resignations.

Instead, we get silence. Delay. Denial. “We’re looking into it.”

No.

If this happened to your child, you wouldn’t accept “we’re looking into it.” You’d demand accountability that day.

And notice the larger pattern

The same power that is brutalizing immigrant communities in Minnesota is operating detention centers like this in Texas.

That’s the point I want you to see.

This is not about “border security.” It’s about building a domestic machinery of intimidation where the state teaches people: we can hurt you, and nobody will stop us.

And if a government can do that to immigrants in a tent camp, it can do it to anyone the moment political winds shift.

What I want you to do

Share this. Read it out loud to someone. Don’t let it be buried.

Call your members of Congress and demand an immediate shutdown of Camp East Montana at Fort Bliss and independent investigations of abuse allegations. Demand that the names of officers involved be preserved and that evidence be secured before it “disappears.”

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What consequence should exist for any officer who commits sexual torture in U.S. custody—minimum?

Love and appreciate each of you.
Your friend and brother,
Shaun

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