Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows?
Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows?
Pasting a reply from elsewhere here:
There’s ~50 billion in fresh funding burning a hole in ICE’s pocket, purchase orders for camps very much including infrastructure for the handling of remains, and published quotas impossible to meet any other way
To be precise: there is no record of what happened to ~1600 of the “detainees” who were last seen at the camp in Florida when it got temporarily shut down. They were booked in but not out. Not held, released, or deported. Just gone.
www.npr.org/…/ice-budget-funding-congress-trump
commondreams.org/…/military-contract-concentratio…
Here’s some recent reporting around ICE funding and expenditures
snopes.com/…/men-lost-from-alligator-alcatraz/
and here’s a very careful take on the missing “detainees” from Snopes. Stuff like this is pretty tricky to report on in the moment, it’ll be a lot clearer in the history books.
“FALSE. No one is unaccounted — including at Alligator Alcatraz — in ICE’s online detention locator system. This is yet another hoax about the facility.”
^ official response.