inhumane
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One point that Trump officials, lawmakers and advocates for Afghan allies agree on: Keeping Afghans trapped in Camp As Sayliyah in perpetuity is inhumane.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026
The lawmakers worry that the rush to build the facilities could “exacerbate” the same inhumane conditions at some ICE centers.
From Salon • Mar. 31, 2026
Those proposals have been criticised by rights groups as inhumane.
From Barron's • Mar. 28, 2026
"These are people that have families that have contributed to this country for decades. Little children, there's hundreds of children in detention centres. It's inhumane."
From BBC • Feb. 1, 2026
In the late nineteenth century, alarmed by the inhumane treatment of incarcerated people suffering from mental illness, Dorothea Dix and Reverend Louis Dwight led a successful campaign to get the mentally ill out of prison.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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