inhumane
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- inhumanely adverb
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The lawmakers worry that the rush to build the facilities could “exacerbate” the same inhumane conditions at some ICE centers.
From Salon
Those proposals have been criticised by rights groups as inhumane.
From Barron's
She is now in an ICE detention facility in Louisiana, where she has faced “inhumane and difficult treatment,” her attorney stated.
From Salon
But officials said the new Norwalk campus isn’t a return to the inhumane conditions of decades past.
From Los Angeles Times
"They have not been tortured. They have not suffered any inhumane treatment since they were captured."
From BBC
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