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The ICC Needs to Step In: People Are Dying in Trump’s Camps [1]
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Date: 2025-06-30
The International Criminal Court was created for moments like this.
When governments cross the line from negligence to cruelty, when human rights are systematically violated under the cover of “law and order,” and when people die in detention under state control while leaders look the other way—that’s when the ICC is supposed to act.
Under Trump, ICE detention centers have become places where people are dying. Thirteen people have died in these camps this year alone, including a Canadian citizen and a 75-year-old Cuban man who had lived in the United States since 1966.
Canada is demanding answers for the death of its citizen. They’re not getting them. Cuba may demand answers next. And they shouldn’t have to wait for another death before something is done.
This isn’t about American politics anymore.
This is about a nation detaining and harming people under the guise of immigration enforcement while refusing accountability for what is happening inside these walls.
If these were any other camps, in any other country, the world would be calling it what it is: state cruelty and a human rights crisis.
The ICC has jurisdiction when:
Crimes against humanity are alleged.
A member nation (like Canada) requests intervention.
The host country is “unwilling or unable” to address these crimes.
The United States isn’t seriously investigating these deaths. It isn’t stopping the cruelty. It isn’t protecting human rights.
Why isn’t the U.S. part of the ICC?
The U.S. signed the Rome Statute that created the ICC in 2000 but never ratified it, and in 2002, it withdrew its signature. The U.S. claimed it could handle its own justice and feared the ICC might be used for politically motivated cases against Americans. But the ICC can still investigate Americans if crimes happen in countries that are ICC members, or if a member state refers a case. The U.S. may not recognize the court, but it isn’t completely shielded from accountability if lines are crossed.
The ICC needs to step in.
Because people are dying, and the world has a responsibility to act.
Didn’t we have to go to war once to stop another madman who used fear, cruelty, and camps to control people?
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