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The IOC used visual inspections in the 1960s, but there were concerns they were degrading and invasive, before mandatory chromosome-based cheek swab tests were introduced.

Mich Gonzalez, Michael's lawyer, says that while immigration detention centers are supposed to be non-punitive - a place to supervise immigrants who are facing deportation - the conditions inside these facilities are "degrading and deadly".

Airstrikes, however, won’t be any more effective at degrading the cartels or diminishing the flow of drugs into the United States than ground operations would be.

We all know the answer: Racist white Americans who don’t like being reminded of how horrible and degrading slavery actually was.

"They're kept at minus 80 degrees to stop them degrading," she explained.