Will the COVID-19 pandemic be the catalyst for overhauling the systemic torture of immigration detention? Melanie Pino-Elliott isn't so sure.

Over the course of 2018, FFI surveyed 2,055 people in U.S. immigration detention, who reported 1,695 abuses or issues caused or exacerbated by detention.

"I know if I was returned to my country I will die in a matter of days, maybe two weeks, [without] dialysis."

"Our system of mass immigration detention functions as torture. It must be abolished."