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“The water is putrid. They have to mix baby formula with water that nobody wants to even smell. The food has bugs in it. The food has dirt in it.”

While waiting to see his clients, “Guards came in and suddenly said, ‘Get out. Get out.’ And I didn’t know what was happening,” Lee said.

“As I was walking back to my car to leave, I heard the sound of hundreds of children chanting. … They were chanting, ‘Let us out. Let us out.’”

  • wuffah@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    Remember that it’s never about immigration enforcement. There is plenty of money and manpower to care for these people properly and to perform lawful and professional immigration control operations in cities where it is a problem. Even now, the Trump administration has only managed to deport about as many immigrants as Biden, and that was without mass unrest.

    Instead, violent and undertrained ICE goon squads are sent wherever the administration thinks it can get away with it, and money is funneled to contractors enabled to spend as little money as possible on incarceration with de facto torture as a feature. The goal here is two-fold:

    • To enact a white nationalist expulsion and extermination of whoever they deem to be sufficiently brown enough for their myopic and hateful ideology, and anyone else that dares to stand against them.

    • To foment unrest in Blue cities for fruitful opportunities to provoke violence and hamper elections. (For instance, at the fucking Super Bowl.)

    Just like the early Nazi concentration camps, these “ICE detention centers” are hastily planned, quickly built, sparsely accommodated, and intended to house enemies of the state in “protective custody”. The only difference is that the “enemies of the state” here are the enemies of American white nationalists, and the “protective custody” is for hold them for deportation. If they die in custody, there is no real accountability because that’s the end goal.

    These are Concentration Camps. If this pattern continues unchecked, there will be an American holocaust.