Funny, People Don't Want ICE Concentration Camps In Their Towns -- Or Anywhere (Wonkette)

[duckworth969]

The language used by ICE/DHS is meant to blunt their true intentions. Calling a facility “Transitional Corrections” for example. Pushback has been bi-partisan.

“…residents in cities where ICE wants to try warehouse prisons have been fighting to block them, and in many cases, they’ve won — even in states where Donald Trump won in 2024.

Here are just a few:

* A Canadian company backed out of selling a warehouse in Virginia, following protests and local opposition, as well as a threat by Canada’s Green Party to launch a boycott of the company.

* After huge protests in Oklahoma City, the owners of a warehouse there decided not to sell a warehouse there to ICE, and Republican Mayor David Holt applauded the move.

* ICE dropped plans to warehouse up to 8,500 people in a Mississippi warehouse after Sen. Roger Wicker (R) complained about the plan directly to Kristi Noem, possibly while offering her a new blanket.

* In red, red Utah, the government of Salt Lake City is nonetheless Democratic, and Mayor Erin Mendenhall warned the owner of a warehouse that ICE’s plans to convert it into a prison would likely violate city code, as well as put a huge strain on the city’s water and sewer systems. There too, the owners of the warehouse said they had no intention of selling or leasing the building to DHS.

* After federal officials toured a large warehouse in Kansas City, Missouri, the city council passed a moratorium on construction of any non-municipal detention facilities in the cityuntil January 15, 2031. The owners of the warehouse initially said they had a “fiduciary duty” to consider an offer that had already been made on the building, but last week issued a statement that they’re “not actively engaged” with any prospective buyer for the property. The company also grumped that it normally wouldn’t comment on “potential transactions,” and that “baseless speculation, inaccurate narratives and serious threats toward our leadership, our employees and our families have prompted us to issue this statement.”

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[Girard442]

1. The DHS buy of the old Pep Boys warehouse in Chester, NY also fizzed out.

[Bluetus]

2. If we are deporting these people, why do we need concentration camps big enough to

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hold 100,000 or a quarter million people for years without any judicial process?

A: Because this is not about deporting "the worst of the worst illegal immigrants." It is mostly about imprisoning LAWFUL CITIZENS that are considered to be "enemies of the state" (i.e a threat to Trump, the gangster.)

If it were about simply deporting people who committed felonies while here without papers, they would be building courthouses, not concentration camps.

[Goonch]

3. ;-{).......

[Blue Owl]

4. Imagine that... some folks have actually LEARNED from WWII that concentration camps are evil

Stephen Miller needs to be REMOVED FROM POWER immediately.