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An unprecedented forty-nine people have died in immigration detention since Trump returned to office. And the recent DHS Office of Inspector General report on Winn Correctional Center in Louisiana verifies what many immigrants have stated is happening at these private, for-profit detention centers across the country. DHS must immediately withdraw funding from the numerous detention centers that consistently do not meet the minimum required standards for housing immigrant detainees. For those that remain, DHS must require facilities to take immediate corrective action and engage in serious oversight of these for-profit prison operators who are prioritizing their cash coffers over meeting basic health and safety standards. Congress must immediately step in and pass my Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act to end the use of private, for-profit detention centers, end the use of mandatory detention, update and implement robust minimum requirements for care, and conduct urgent oversight at other facilities across the country.