i'm not sure that's necessarily torture, inhumane conditions for sure.

The worst one in that case is lights being on 24/7 and no sleeping arrangements. But it's also not clear how long people are being held either.

Speaking to CBC News earlier Thursday, Jasmine's mother, Alexis Eagles, said her daughter — who grew up in Yukon and had been living in B.C. until last year — was being detained at the San Luis Regional Detention Center after she recently tried to enter the U.S. from Mexico.

she's canadian, visiting canada, and entered the US through mexico? Ok, so it looks like she tried to enter at the canadian border, her visa was revoked, she tried to then enter through the mexican border for some reason, after having her visa already revoked. Seems questionable and like a stupid decision to me, and even her mother seems to agree with that.

and was apprehended at the border instead of just denied entry.

i would assume that revoking a visa, is a denial of entry, especially since this literally happened at the canadian border, so maybe you want to read up a little bit on that one again.

And again I ask, what specific things need to happen before people will start doing something about it?

i don't know, good question, it's the hard question to answer here. The judicial branch has already done something about it. It's definitionally illegal, it's just a matter of it being escalated to the scotus, and hoping they side with the law.