‘Disturbing’ footage shared by California detainee surfaces amid wider complaints about conditions in ICE detention

Attorneys for a man detained in a California immigration detention center have released footage showing him holding up a bottle of water from inside the facility that appeared to be contaminated with worm-like creatures.

The footage came from a video call with Carlitos Ricardo Parias, a Los Angeles man who has been detained for months at the Adelanto Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility, north-east of LA.

Margaret Hellerstein, one of Parias’s attorneys, shared the footage with the Guardian on Thursday and said it was filmed this week. The clip is brief and grainy, but shows him holding up a plastic bottle filled with water, which appeared to have small pests of some kind swimming inside.

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[–] 15 points 3 months ago (1 child)

What if RFK is actually a worm parasite and this is how he spreads to take over the planet?

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    No microscope needed. Obvious even on a camera made from a potato filming in 144p.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Any amateur entomologists able to hazard a guess what those bugs are?

    Some kind of dragonfly larvae?

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Mosquito larvae. I see LOTS of them here.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago

    Oh look, human testing.

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