Growing reports of overcrowding and mistreatment at Florida’s largest immigration enforcement facility have sparked protests and are yet another example of the use of cruelty as a deterrent

MIAMI — Hundreds of people swept up in the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration are being kept at an overcrowded detention center in Miami, sleeping on cement floors amid the stench of body odor and raw sewage — conditions that lawyers, families and former detainees call inhumane.

They lined up in outside the main entrance to the Krome North Detention center, calling for change. The protesters came after allegations surfaced of mistreatment of female detainees inside the facility. Krome is meant to house male detainees.