Inside ICE’s New York detention sites: Days on concrete floors, no showers, no calls

Emilie Munson, Esther Sun, Times Union, Albany, N.Y. (TNS)

ALBANY — Packed into small concrete cells inside U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Oswego station, detained immigrants were falling asleep standing up or lying on top of each other.

With up to 30 people crowded in a 10-square-foot cell, the station had become the first holding site for nearly 60 workers detained in a September factory raid in the Central New York town of Cato— one high-profile example among rising numbers of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests across Upstate New York.

Inside, there were no beds, no showers and no hot meals delivered. Under prior presidential administrations, migrants weren’t held there long — usually a few hours. But now, at least one migrant was confined in that station fo