More Migrants Reveal Their Ordeal While Detained In Guantanamo: 'We Clogged The Toilets And Protested'

More Venezuelan migrants who were held at Guantanamo Bay before being deported are revealing gruesome details of their detention.

After Diuvar Uzcategui told The Washington Post that he was "thrown in a cage" and subjected to prolonged isolation, something that led many detainees to attempt to commit suicide, a Venezuelan man called Jose detailed ways in which he tried to make himself heard.

Speaking to ABC News, Jose, who requested not to disclose his last name, rejected having a criminal record and said he was apprehended by authorities after he surrendered at the border. He traveled there to wait for an asylum appointment requested at CBP One, the app to do so legally implemented by the Biden administration and shut down by President Donald Trump on his first day in office.

However, after three weeks of waiting without "food or a place to stay," Jose turned himself in. He was taken to a detention center and then to Guantanamo. He recalled that from the very outset detainees "tried to kick the doors" and went on "countless strikes."

"We clogged the toilets and protested, we covered the cameras because the confinement is unbearable," Jose added. In another passage of the interview he described not having a mattress for 10 days and getting "very little food." "There came a point where I would lick the plate. The food had no salt, but I would still eat it as if it were very tasty, because I was hungry."

Jose's description of Guantanamo is similar to others given in different interviews since some 170 Venezuelans were taken there. Kevin Rodriguez, who recently spoke to Noticias Telemundo, said that the camp looked like it hadn't been inhabited in a "long time," with the migrants being greeted by cobwebs, ants and insects. He added that officers would only let them shower once every three days, handcuffed and undergoing thorough inspections before and after those showers.

Those conditions took a serious toll on each detainees' mental health. Uzcategui told The Washington Post he wasn't able to see his fellow inmates, but from his cell he could hear them screaming and threatening to kill themselves.

The Trump administration said Guantanamo would be reserved for the "worst of the worst," but court filings reveal that not all those who were sent to the facility were considered to pose a "high threat," CNN reported. Of the Guantanamo deportees, 126 people had criminal charges or convictions— including 80 allegedly affiliated with the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua— a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said. However, 51 had no criminal record.

Most of the 170 migrants were removed from Guantanamo last Thursday and taken to Honduras, from where they made their way to Venezela. Voice of American reported this week that the Trump administration is again sending "high threat" detainees there.