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  • If you think there is a different word I should use instead, please share.

    I'm open to other suggestions, I don't love the word either. Since it implies possible criminal behavior, and being undocumented or having a previously expired visa is not a crime. However I don't know of a word that means to be held as a political prisoner, or when an innocent person is placed in a concentration camp by a fascist regime.

    For the record, to be detained means to be kept in custody, often against one's will. In the USA, this is supposed to be temporary until the person is either released or convicted. But we have seen that is not true at concentration camps where people are held indefinitely, sometimes for years.

    To be detained is different from being convicted of a crime. And anyone held in custody, even if just for a few minutes to answer questions is technically detained.

  • I think detained is the appropriate word. They were not convicted of any crime.

  • Crimes of ICE @lemmy.4d2.org

    found dead at Laredo ICE

    www.texastribune.org /2026/10/18/migrant-found-dead-ice-laredo/