ICE seeking to turn industrial warehouses into additional detention centers through private detention companies for migrants being staged for deportation
Washington Post first reported these plans from a draft solicitation from ICE to contractors. These converted warehouses, which reportedly will be located in Virginia, Texas, Louisiana, Arizona, Georgia, and Missouri, will hold up to 80,000 migrants. According to the Post, ICE plans to share the draft solicitation with private detention companies to gauge interest and refine its plans before formally requesting bids.
The acting director of ICE, Todd Lyons, said in April that President Donald Trump's administration's goal is to deport immigrants with the efficiency of Amazon packages. He said, "Like Prime, but with human beings." At the beginning of December, ICE had more than 68,000 migrants in detention, with 48% of those people having no criminal convictions or pending criminal charges, according to the Post.
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So I went on a WW2 walking tour in Vienna today and was struck by the similarities between the Nazis and the current administration in the deportation of those each deemed undesirable.
There's a massive overlap - almost a Venn diagram - between the groups each deemed undesirable as well.
Almost a circle
By Venn diagram you mean fuzzy circle?
I had similar thoughts in the Holocaust museum in DC last year about the parallels to Palestine.
Completely
Right. Because industrial warehouses are just famous for their climate control, and their massive bathroom/shower facilities - yep, every industrial warehouse I know of always made sure they had massive water and sewage infrastructure put in ...
I mean, they could just turn one of the warehouses into a big communal shower, and that would...
Oh.
Wait.
Oh no
I'd rather turn Amazon warehouse into ICE graveyards.
Remember "Obama and Biden put people in cages!"? Well now it's our guy doing it so it's ok.
It's more in how they define different groups as "people" or not, and the Republican party has spent a LOT of time, effort, and money "othering" a LOT of people.
yeah, demoncrats would have done it way worser
“Staged” meaning indefinitely, and forced to work.
Spelling out SOS?
Thumbnail looks like a screenshot from the new Project Zomboid lighting update.