If it was ever uncertain, it is now blindingly clear that support for this Administration, and support for current DHS leadership, is effectively complicity in criminal, lawless behavior. And the bitter reality is that the lives lost and sacrifices of the Second World War are mocked by the replication of concentration camps in our countryside and brownshirt-like terror in our cities and streets.
I have repeatedly written my Senators and Congressman (Shaheen, Hassan and Chris Pappas), demanding that they hold out until Noem and Lewandowski are gone, DHS is brought into compliance with the Constitution and laws. My Senators in particular do not appear to understand that this is no long ordinary political opposition, where we disagree, even sharply, on policy. The opposition is an end-game for the democratic republic and for the reasonable, evenhanded application of the rule of law. Every morsel of leverage must be brought to bear against this regime; it is not enough to wait and hope for outcomes in the Midterms. Bring DHS to its knees, and do it now.
These are the most horrific and inhumane reports I have ever read outside the Nazi concentration camps and the Japanese treatment of their POWs and other Korean "comfort women."
Everyone in the orange dumpster regime and their supposedly independent jailers need to be put on trial once this odious regime is over.
The Irish government should make a formal complaint to the US Embassy and State Department regarding the abuse of their citizens by Trump's cruel and illegal regime.
We have masked gunmen in our streets and neighborhoods, terrorizing citizens and non-citizens alike.
I've just started watching Ken Burns's excellent documentary on the American Revolution. There is a particularly poignant section in Part1 that describes Bostonians' anguish when British troops take over their streets, invade their homes, and detain their people. And we're doing it again.
It's no wonder that Trump and his gang of bum crawlers want to erase history. George Santayana was right.
This article must be shared with the vast population because most people probably have no idea these atrocities are occurring. On No Kings day on March 28th, we must protest against these detention centers’ terrifying situations!
Knowing these atrocities are happening why on earth can they not be stopped?!
We agree, everyone should be aware of what is happening. We have a few calls to action concerning what WE can do to stop this (since clearly, our politicians won't do it themselves).
I am reading these same horrific things over and over again for the past 13 months. Over and over, members of the House are simply stopped at the door, shoved around and/or arrested. Stern letters result. Lather, rinse and repeat.
I'm pretty certain that my Member of Congress is doing all he can. But.
Since I haven't seen any Republican MOC calling for review here, I would love to see a simultaneous surge of every Democratic House member, in every state, demanding immediate access to all the detention centers in their state, surrounded by interdenominational clergy and a brigade of local and national press to cover the event. And if they're refused, to return again. And again. And again, until full, unrestricted access is granted. Then let's see the videos and read the descriptions for the world to view and deplore.
!!! IS ANY MEMBER OF CONGRESS READING THIS AND ACTING ON IT DURING THE @/##$"÷])@ RECESS ??!!!
Not only is this morally reprehensible but it’s costing taxpayers billions. If this kind of thing is recorded and our allies are allowed to see what is happening here some may cease to be our allies. This s**t could come at a great political cost to dumpty trumpty and the repugnant Repugnicans that are enabling him.
Having private contractors run the facilities is a huge red flag since their goal is profit, which pencils out as spend as little as possible; conditions and human rights be damned.
Sick beyond description, but thank you for trying. I cannot stand that a single nickel of my tax dollars goes to this Nazi/Russian gulag abomination. This is an incredibly evil, broken and corrupt group of people, who are profiting from this hell.
I thank you for your reporting, but I simply can't click on the heart. If we don't do something to end these horrific abuses, we really are no better than the "good Germans" who kept their heads down and their eyes averted as their Jewish neighbors were taken away. Call your Congress people, call your local and state officials, demonstrate, be loud. It's up to us, people.
We wish we could change the heart reaction to something that represents our anger, so the share button will have to do. As for doing something, we are dropping our Calls to Action today and addressing this directly.
I don't look at the "LIKE" button as meaning I like what is happening. I simply see it as liking what is being reported on, no matter how gross and horrific the reporting is on.
As I read these reports, I can only be glad that my husband who grew up in Europe in the 1930"s is no longer here to see what the nation that he chose to become a citizen of has become.
I have had similar thoughts about my father, who lived long enough that he was beside himself, suffering sleepless nights over Trump's first term. We are a nation of immigrants. If any can be put in "concentration camps" we all can. The only reason this continues to be a major problem is because the Republicans refused to pass bipartisan legislation; Trump wanted to run on the "immigration problem."
"Under Trump, immigrant detainees are now scattered across more than 200 facilities nationwide, many in rural areas far from public scrutiny."
These are the concentration camps of the 21st century, and there's no denying it. We and our allies freed prisoners like this after WWII. Today, people are being treated inhumanely, people are becoming ill and dying, there is massive overcrowding, and some are profiting from these places. People are getting lost in them; no lawyers or due process. Food and sanitary conditions are marginal to nil. This is no way to run a country. This, and the DHS reign of terror must end.
We don't have all the answers, but we do have a few ideas that we will share in today's Calls to Action. We highly encourage everyone to comment or email us their own suggestions to add!
I believe that both Mississippi and Alabama have had experience with CoreCivic.. I know Alabama has discontinued use of one contract prison system. My recall is imperfect, but I believe that essentially the same company received the contract again after changing its name. I am relying on a hazy memory, but it should be checked. Also, Shane Bauer’s book, American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment, exposes private prisons. He was hired as an entry level prison guard for $9 an hour and wrote about the private prisons’ unaccountability to public view. These prisons were for convicted criminals and not detention centers, but were emotional incentivized to tend to the health of their inmates. The same is true for the detention centers, but they hold women and children. The adults are not all criminals; usually only around 20% have criminal records. Inadequate food of questionable safety and quality, overcrowding, failure to provide adequate medical care, and lack of opportunity for access to the outside and recreation all add to profit.
Thank you for pulling all these reports together for us. I knew the stories, but it's still shocking to see it all together. We need to speak out against these concentration/death/torture camps and the companies that are profiting off human misery.
why is this not being published in major newspapers?!? why are the congresspeople and senators of these states (no, all states) not using their authorities to stop this? i know some person will have some snarky flip response to this but really...why?!?
If it was ever uncertain, it is now blindingly clear that support for this Administration, and support for current DHS leadership, is effectively complicity in criminal, lawless behavior. And the bitter reality is that the lives lost and sacrifices of the Second World War are mocked by the replication of concentration camps in our countryside and brownshirt-like terror in our cities and streets.
I have repeatedly written my Senators and Congressman (Shaheen, Hassan and Chris Pappas), demanding that they hold out until Noem and Lewandowski are gone, DHS is brought into compliance with the Constitution and laws. My Senators in particular do not appear to understand that this is no long ordinary political opposition, where we disagree, even sharply, on policy. The opposition is an end-game for the democratic republic and for the reasonable, evenhanded application of the rule of law. Every morsel of leverage must be brought to bear against this regime; it is not enough to wait and hope for outcomes in the Midterms. Bring DHS to its knees, and do it now.
These are the most horrific and inhumane reports I have ever read outside the Nazi concentration camps and the Japanese treatment of their POWs and other Korean "comfort women."
Everyone in the orange dumpster regime and their supposedly independent jailers need to be put on trial once this odious regime is over.
The Irish government should make a formal complaint to the US Embassy and State Department regarding the abuse of their citizens by Trump's cruel and illegal regime.
We have masked gunmen in our streets and neighborhoods, terrorizing citizens and non-citizens alike.
I've just started watching Ken Burns's excellent documentary on the American Revolution. There is a particularly poignant section in Part1 that describes Bostonians' anguish when British troops take over their streets, invade their homes, and detain their people. And we're doing it again.
It's no wonder that Trump and his gang of bum crawlers want to erase history. George Santayana was right.
This article must be shared with the vast population because most people probably have no idea these atrocities are occurring. On No Kings day on March 28th, we must protest against these detention centers’ terrifying situations!
Knowing these atrocities are happening why on earth can they not be stopped?!
We agree, everyone should be aware of what is happening. We have a few calls to action concerning what WE can do to stop this (since clearly, our politicians won't do it themselves).
THANK YOU!!
I am reading these same horrific things over and over again for the past 13 months. Over and over, members of the House are simply stopped at the door, shoved around and/or arrested. Stern letters result. Lather, rinse and repeat.
I'm pretty certain that my Member of Congress is doing all he can. But.
Since I haven't seen any Republican MOC calling for review here, I would love to see a simultaneous surge of every Democratic House member, in every state, demanding immediate access to all the detention centers in their state, surrounded by interdenominational clergy and a brigade of local and national press to cover the event. And if they're refused, to return again. And again. And again, until full, unrestricted access is granted. Then let's see the videos and read the descriptions for the world to view and deplore.
!!! IS ANY MEMBER OF CONGRESS READING THIS AND ACTING ON IT DURING THE @/##$"÷])@ RECESS ??!!!
Yes, this sort of action must be taken! Bring in the numbers of Representatives and cameras again and again until this is put to an end!
Republicans representatives should be required to accompany the Democrats.
Not only is this morally reprehensible but it’s costing taxpayers billions. If this kind of thing is recorded and our allies are allowed to see what is happening here some may cease to be our allies. This s**t could come at a great political cost to dumpty trumpty and the repugnant Repugnicans that are enabling him.
Having private contractors run the facilities is a huge red flag since their goal is profit, which pencils out as spend as little as possible; conditions and human rights be damned.
Sick beyond description, but thank you for trying. I cannot stand that a single nickel of my tax dollars goes to this Nazi/Russian gulag abomination. This is an incredibly evil, broken and corrupt group of people, who are profiting from this hell.
I thank you for your reporting, but I simply can't click on the heart. If we don't do something to end these horrific abuses, we really are no better than the "good Germans" who kept their heads down and their eyes averted as their Jewish neighbors were taken away. Call your Congress people, call your local and state officials, demonstrate, be loud. It's up to us, people.
We wish we could change the heart reaction to something that represents our anger, so the share button will have to do. As for doing something, we are dropping our Calls to Action today and addressing this directly.
I don't look at the "LIKE" button as meaning I like what is happening. I simply see it as liking what is being reported on, no matter how gross and horrific the reporting is on.
As I read these reports, I can only be glad that my husband who grew up in Europe in the 1930"s is no longer here to see what the nation that he chose to become a citizen of has become.
I have had similar thoughts about my father, who lived long enough that he was beside himself, suffering sleepless nights over Trump's first term. We are a nation of immigrants. If any can be put in "concentration camps" we all can. The only reason this continues to be a major problem is because the Republicans refused to pass bipartisan legislation; Trump wanted to run on the "immigration problem."
Please send this article to everyone you know. And ask the question "IS THIS WHO WE ARE?"
CALL ME ASHAMED, DEVASTATED AND CONTINUING TO FIGHT
"Under Trump, immigrant detainees are now scattered across more than 200 facilities nationwide, many in rural areas far from public scrutiny."
These are the concentration camps of the 21st century, and there's no denying it. We and our allies freed prisoners like this after WWII. Today, people are being treated inhumanely, people are becoming ill and dying, there is massive overcrowding, and some are profiting from these places. People are getting lost in them; no lawyers or due process. Food and sanitary conditions are marginal to nil. This is no way to run a country. This, and the DHS reign of terror must end.
WHAT CAN WE DO????? Somehow we must get these people out of these hellholes. HOW?
We don't have all the answers, but we do have a few ideas that we will share in today's Calls to Action. We highly encourage everyone to comment or email us their own suggestions to add!
I believe that both Mississippi and Alabama have had experience with CoreCivic.. I know Alabama has discontinued use of one contract prison system. My recall is imperfect, but I believe that essentially the same company received the contract again after changing its name. I am relying on a hazy memory, but it should be checked. Also, Shane Bauer’s book, American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment, exposes private prisons. He was hired as an entry level prison guard for $9 an hour and wrote about the private prisons’ unaccountability to public view. These prisons were for convicted criminals and not detention centers, but were emotional incentivized to tend to the health of their inmates. The same is true for the detention centers, but they hold women and children. The adults are not all criminals; usually only around 20% have criminal records. Inadequate food of questionable safety and quality, overcrowding, failure to provide adequate medical care, and lack of opportunity for access to the outside and recreation all add to profit.
Thank you for pulling all these reports together for us. I knew the stories, but it's still shocking to see it all together. We need to speak out against these concentration/death/torture camps and the companies that are profiting off human misery.
why is this not being published in major newspapers?!? why are the congresspeople and senators of these states (no, all states) not using their authorities to stop this? i know some person will have some snarky flip response to this but really...why?!?
Making money on the misery of others.
How very Trumpian.