Davikyuss
Alexander KarnAmerica will have its own Gulag Archipelago. Twenty-three concentration camps will soon come online, unless, together, we can find and pull the political handbrake.
"Without concentration camps, without the undefined fear they inspire and the very well-defined training they offer in totalitarian domination, which can nowhere else be tested with all of its most radical possibilities, a totalitarian state can neither inspire its nuclear troops with fanaticism nor maintain a whole people in complete apathy."
--Hannah Arendt, "Totalitarianism in Power"
ICE will pursue these projects quietly whenever possible.
ICE will obfuscate and sow misinformation to frustrate inquiry.
ICE will not alert community leaders where new detention facilities are being planned and constructed.
ICE will endeavor to fill every bed in these new camps. Tens of thousands of "beds."
Once built, the gears of these camps must turn with maximum efficiency and therefore with built-in inhumanity.
Pls support investigative journalism.
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-detention-centers-pushback-24e702da67281a672b0f77287aaa87ba
ICE is quietly buying warehouses for its detention expansion
At least 20 communities with large warehouses across the U.S. have become stealth targets for Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s $45-billion expansion of detention centers. Communities are objecting to mass detentions and raising concerns that the facilities could strain water supplies and other services while reducing local tax revenue. In many cases, mayors, county commissioners, governors and members of Congress learned about ICE’s ambitions only after the agency bought or leased space for detainees. That's led to shock and frustration even in areas that have backed President Donald Trump. This is happening as public support for ICE and Trump's immigration crackdown sags.
Scout
Kevin RussellAP is not progressive anything. AP is a coop of billionaire owned news stations and billionaire owned newspapers.
calcius
Mitch Rosefortunately ICE is not very good at capacity planning. They will end up buying these properties, then realize that the infrastructure (roads, electrical supply, water supply, personnel) are not available to support the intended use. Finally they will sell these properties at a loss. Our tax dollars "at work".
If you're in a community and discover a sale, lobby the town to put a toll on the road to the warehouse, apply additional water, sewer, or real estate taxes to help "defray" the extra cost before they figure out it's not feasible. At a minimum your town should get back more that what ICE puts into the effort.
You fight back by making the effort too expensive to support
If these purchases prove to be merely wasteful, that will likely be the best possible outcome.
I don’t share all your optimism about MAGA/ICE incompetence. In fact, the inability to do deep planning is part of what makes these sites so dangerous, imo.
CrazyDogLadySezPEACE
Guillotine Jones, Flâneur@xankarn
After you read this news item about the growing number of US concentration camps, you won't be able to say you didn't know what's happening any more.
After you read this news item about the growing number of US concentration camps, you won't be able to say you didn't know what's happening any more.
Jonas 🇩🇰 🇬🇱@xankarn Wonder when US citizens will wake up. Watching a demolition of democracy in both slow motion and fast forward. And all I hear is some widespread demonstrations. Sorry, but freedom, democracy, free speech is under attack. Where is the resistance? Not talking about using violence but if anyone in stopped using Facebook today, one great donor to the demolition is gone. Very easy.
Americans are not uniquely immoral, even if they live in a uniquely toxic culture.
There is real resistance work being done, and, as we have witnessed in other times and places, it may not be enough to stem the tide of barbarism.
Wulfy—Speaker to the machines
Mike McGraw@xankarn We’ll need a few of these to hold every ICE and CBP gestapo agent after we defeat the fascists.
Francis Mangion (M)
disorderlyf@xankarn Suddenly I have a slightly better understanding of what it must have felt like to know a concentration camp is being built within 100 miles of your hometown for Germans in the 40s. I feel slightly ill.
humourmetom@xankarn Years from now, history-minded tourists will visit some of these spots.
Doug BostromEmploying imaginary resources.
Don't miss the devil in the details:
https://www.socialcirclega.gov/Home/Components/News/News/241/16
RichRARobi#trump is #hitler reincarnated.
Already war crimes, already concentration camps, deportations.
What else? I will not suggest.
More important,
where will the updated #neuremberg take place
when it all ends?
Trump may escape, but the cohort will be brought to justice.
#usa
tekhedd
decapitae
Toni Aittoniemi@xankarn And the detainees will be working.. Far below minimum wage.. Someone will make a big profit...
Jeff Craig@xankarn It's worth noting that the site they're looking at here in New Hampshire is in a region with *enormous* PFAS contamination that has made the ground water toxic.
Noah Bailey@xankarn it's wild that the "walmart fema camps" conspiracy theory of 90s vintage is sort of coming true, but it's the people that were pushing that crap on AM radio that are now wearing the boot.
T2R@xankarn @briankrebs Looks like Utah isn't learning it's lesson. The Topaz internment camp was a disgrace and those fools are doing it again.
Canadian Curmudgeon@xankarn Stalin wasn't this efficient....
HarryKrischner@xankarn
is there anyone still out there? One half is in privat run prisons the other half is in trump detention camps #prisonsofamerica
is there anyone still out there? One half is in privat run prisons the other half is in trump detention camps #prisonsofamerica
xs4me2
GeraintLlanfrancheta@xankarn man in the high castle season finale.
DoomsdaysCW@xankarn Not sure if NH has said "yes".
Lucy BDefinitely still up in the air. Merrimack is not pleased. Gov Ayotte is dancing around the issue.
Success in NH, with a Republican governor! Keep pushing, people!
https://www.wmur.com/article/ice-facility-new-hampshire-plan-dead/70477572
Juliamon@DoomsdaysCW @xankarn Ayotte is refusing to say "no" despite massive opposition, despite being called out for lying about knowing about it, despite the DHS sending documents so blatantly carbon-copied from preexisting ones that they still said "Oklahoma" and mentioned "sales and income tax revenue." There was a big protest Saturday, and one (ONE) counterprotester who "approved" of what ICE was doing, but was still against them dodging taxes on the property.
Quark Maker@xankarn To the extent that indifference dogs our political footsteps, we have to get people to understand 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 situation in particular 𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒕 and 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒏𝒐𝒕 be resolved without first getting Republicans out of office 𝙖𝙣𝙙 putting progressive Democrats into office 𝙞𝙣 𝙢𝙖𝙟𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮.
I think former Ambassador Susan Rice was right: we 𝙙𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙣𝙤𝙩 operate with a “forgive and forget” mentality, and so just electing “Democrats” is not going to be sufficient. In fact, I think we're screwed if we do.
Gondor
sandywb14
Viktoria D. Richards/UddelhexeI fear that the US has long passed the point in that a political handbrake still exists.
The only way out will be Civil war.
And to be honest, from outside it looks like there is a civil war happening already but one party, that party being the average population, is refusing to see it is happening, while the other side, that being Maga and friends, are preparing for cosplaying 1933 Germany soon.
As a german this is horrifying to watch.
And the whole world is follwing suit.
Kevin Karhan 
@xankarn or just, IDK, fucking run over the guards and free those being #ForciblyDisappeared into those.
- YOU HAVE A #2A - USE THAT SHIT FFS!
- Unlike when @georgetakei et. al. were deported you don't even have the on-paper - "excuse" of claiming someone's being an enemy (even tho that was already wrong back then!)...
#USpol #cowardice #AmericanGestapo #Sarcasm #Commentary #FuckICE #ICE #ConcentrationCamps
Steve Holden