In Communism, All Workers Will Get Health Care and Everything Else We Need
USA, March 1 — Immigration detention centers nationwide are ratholes of medical neglect. Inmates are denied insulin. Most get no medical attention no matter how serious their needs. They are forced to compete for drinkable water.
The number of our working-class siblings held in these concentration camps increased by nearly 75% in 2025, to at least 68,000 humans. Many are in the US “legally” as green-card holders or asylum applicants. But nobody should ever be locked up for where they were born!
At least thirty-two people died in ICE custody in 2025. As of early March, there had already been ten such deaths in 2026.
One detainee suffered a heart attack after complaining of chest pain for days without treatment. Others had their inhalers and asthma medication withheld. Detainees wait weeks for prescriptions to be filled.
Women at ICE detention in Baltimore are denied basic hygiene, forced to wear diapers, and are left lying in urine and feces. The whistleblower who reported this was fired.
At least three inmates died in the Texas Fort Bliss facility in just two months. Witnesses say that one was choked to death by guards. The federal government interned Japanese Americans in Fort Bliss during World War II.
Emmanuel Damas, 56, was a Haitian asylum seeker held at the Florence Correctional Center in Arizona. He died at a Scottsdale hospital from complications of a tooth infection.
His death comes just days after that of Alberto Gutierrez-Reyes, 48. His family said that Gutierrez began to feel seriously ill with chest pains and shortness of breath, but his repeated requests for medical attention were denied.
The DHS press release announcing Gutierrez’s death ends: “This is the best healthcare [that] many aliens have received in their entire lives.” What a cruel lie!
Capitalists Profit from Workers’ Misery
The two largest private prison companies invested in this fascist attack reported a $2 billion increase in revenue in 2025. They have opened nine new ICE detention centers. For one company, CoreCivic, revenue from ICE more than doubled. The company’s chief executive boasted expected that 2026 would be “another year of strong growth.”
In a little over a year, the number of detention facilities used by ICE nearly doubled to 212 sites in 47 states and territories. Federal officials are seeking more places to warehouse immigrants for their $45 billion expansion of detention facilities.
Meanwhile, the US Department of Health and Human Services is laying off 10,000 workers. It is shutting down entire agencies, including ones that oversee billions of dollars in funds for addiction services and community health centers.
While building huge concentration camps, the US rulers are attacking the healthcare of the entire working class.
But the Working Class Always Fights Back!
Starving ICE detainees in concentration camps is capitalism’s “solution” for immigration. In sharp contrast, workers across the US have organized food distribution networks (often clandestinely) for neighbors, co-workers, and friends experiencing food insecurity or afraid to leave their homes. Immigrants aren’t the problem. Capitalism’s borders are!
In many cities, volunteers are trained as street medics. They learn basic first aid supplemented by specific protest-related training. They provide medical and wellness care at protests and in mutual aid roles.
People are stepping up – young and old, employed and unemployed, US-born and immigrant – to fight the rising tide of fascism. We must also fight for a society in which everyone’s basic human needs are expected to be met. That includes food, clean air and water, decent housing, appropriate medical care – no matter our “status.” This is communism. Communist revolution is the only way to defeat fascism.
A communist society, built to meet the needs of our class, destroys wage slavery. In the current crisis, people are distributing food, learning medical care, and trying to protect their neighbors. They don’t expect a capitalist “reward” (money).
When the whole world is one class, everyone will give according to their ability and commitment and receive according to their need. No money. No banks or bosses. No nations or borders. Join us in the ICWP. We believe in and are fighting for this world. The need becomes more apparent every day!
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