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turbinetree

(27,236 posts)
Thu Feb 12, 2026, 10:06 AM 4 hrs ago

Plan To Grow Trump Concentration Camps To Hold 100K People

President Stephen Miller plans to grow Trump concentration camps to hold over 100,000 people. But citizens can stop the ICE detention centers using grassroots tools.



By RedStateRachel — February 12, 2026


Ice detention population growth is about to explode. The plan for Trump concentration camps is to build each detention center to hold from eight to ten thousand people. According to Rachel Maddow's report on February 9: The planned size of the new concentration camps is over double the size of the largest Federal prison in the United States, which holds 4,000 people.

Even more disturbing, the new concentration camps could hold people not convicted of a crime. Per Rachel Maddow's February 9 show:

"But I mean, but at least in the case of existing federal prisons, they're at least for people who are convicted of federal crimes, right? These new huge prison camps that Trump wants to build, they're not for people convicted of crimes. They're for people picked up by his immigration agents, like by ICE.

https://crooksandliars.com/2026/02/trumps-camps-plan-grow-ice-concentration

What I want is for this criminal organization to be sitting in Florence Colorado Federal Prison..............and to rot there.............
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Johnny2X2X

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Thu Feb 12, 2026, 10:21 AM
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So Democrats never pushed back on the immigration math lies of Trump. They simply allowed him to make up any gigantic number he wanted with no push back.

So Trump spewing 20 Million or 25 million unchallenged is a big reason for the mess we're in. There have never been that many undocumented immigrants in the US. At most it's been 11-13 Million and there's a lot of nuance in that number still. The bulk of those people came here legally and overstayed their Visas, that's not what people think about when they think of illegal immigration, people think of sneaking across the border. People do sneak across the border or are smuggled across it, but they make up a minority of the people being targeted right now.

So you have these made up and exaggerated numbers driving everything. It's why you're seeing ICE targeting people here legally like asylum seekers and people whose work visas are totally legit.

The reality is the number of actual criminal immigrants is exceedingly small, it's not a million. And some of those people are truly undocumented so they're harder to track and to find. The system is set up now for payment by throughput, and it's a lot easier to snag people who are showing up to court for the legit immigration cases than to go find the type of people that I think everyone agrees should be removed. So that's what you have, ICE going after the young mother with children who shows up to a hearing, but not going after some actual dangerous criminal because they're too hard to track.

And when you make up a crazy number like 25M, it means this never ends, ICE is still growing quickly and they're never going to stop what they are doing. They're already deporting totally legal immigrants, how long before they start deporting citizens en masse to keep making their quotas?

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