As it turns out, Mullin would not keep his promise to stay out of the news. He is worse than Kristi Noem. You can bet, this same scenario is playing out everywhere there’s a detention facility oops a concentration camp.
The purpose of ICE detention is to make life so miserable that people will agree to be deported rather than pursue their cases to stay in the US.
On a larger scale, private prisons are a terrible idea because the incentives are all wrong. The operators are paid by the prisoner-day: a fixed amount for every prisoner every day he/she is there. So the operator's profits increase the more prisoners it has and the longer it keeps them. So they lobby for more crimes and longer sentences; they make more profit by skimping on food quality and quantity, by minimizing medical staff and facilities, by paying guards poorly so they only hire people who can't get better paying jobs elsewhere, etc.
The purpose of ICE detention may be to make life so miserable that people may not even WANT to ever come to visit the USA, much less move there. Mullin is basically removing the welcome mat to the USA especially if he doesn't want international flights to come to sanctuary cities.
People may well be concerned that if they come to the US perfectly innocently as tourists or students or business visitors, they may wind up in ICE detention with no way out and no way even to question their situation. Mullin, Miller, and others are working to make the country hostile to anybody who wasn't born here...and some who were.
It will take at least a full generation of sane adults running the government to see the US returning to its pre-Don the Con status. I'm old enough to be collecting social security, and sad to say, I don't think I'll see an America true to the law in my lifetime-- the penetration of Trump's lawlessness is that deep! The chances of several consecutive sane adult administrations happening in the US aren't much better than the chance that the sun will rise in the west tomorrow.
Yes, the cruelty is the point. But also the fact that these "donors" to the orange dumpster have to make as much money they possibly can in as short a period of time as possible. After all, January 2027 and January 2029 are not that far off for their money-grubbing, but too far off for the poor detainees.
The world judged Germans who failed to call out and stop the Concentration Camps of the Third Reich. Now here we are. History will no doubt judge all of us for turning a blind eye to the human rights atrocities. We must remember that remaining in the US without documentation is NOT a crime. At is a civil infraction to be dealt with like unintentional tax errors. This gestapo action by the Trump admin must be stopped immediately. Yes, it is more tedious to do the careful legal investigation and work to deal with undocumented persons. But this is the US. It is not a tin pot kleptocracy. Or at least it wasn't before Trump.
If we can get millions of people together for a No Kings Day we also need to organize a day where there’s a demonstration, in all 50 states, in front of every detention center—including Senators, MofC, and other government officials. Shine a light on these concentration camps!
Allow observers to visit these prisons. A very simple request, isn't it? Denying these observers is a complete admission to the wrongs perpetrated there.
Thank’s Contrarians/Tim Dickinson for putting a spotlight on the Concentration Camps for Profit, that are being paid for by We the People’s taxes, We the Peeps need to shut these abominations down and prevent new ones, like we have to prevent the damn Data Centers!!!!
Today's nastiest official goes to WayneBow. Hard to be angry about Pulte's rise to power when you have WayneBow torturing immigrants and attacking Americans. I feel sick.
"In fact, under the new leadership of DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin, the cruelty continues."
Really, did we expect anything different? Mullin didn't say that he was going to make any changes or do any housecleaning at DHS. It was and is business as usual. No doubt he will claim that he and DHS have no oversight over what a privately run prison can do to its inmates. What has our system of justice become that we treat human beings in this inhumane manner? "The cruelty, after all, was the point." It still is and continues to be. Why is it allowed?
The 2ft x 2ft cages and use as punishment sound very much like what is used in survival training for the military, especially pilots, to prepare them for the eventuality of captivity. I think these may have existed in the Hanoi Hilton. I have seen this mode of punishment in movies. For someone to say the detainees were well fed and had excellent medical care is an absolute lie. These are concentration camps in every sense of the word. The American public has been deceived by media now owned by billionaires in the Trump circle. The destruction of 60 Minutes is just one example of what happens when Trump supporters and loyalists are installed in the media we could once count on.
As it turns out, Mullin would not keep his promise to stay out of the news. He is worse than Kristi Noem. You can bet, this same scenario is playing out everywhere there’s a detention facility oops a concentration camp.
Even worse, he is a minority as a native American doing the bidding of his Great White father.
The purpose of ICE detention is to make life so miserable that people will agree to be deported rather than pursue their cases to stay in the US.
On a larger scale, private prisons are a terrible idea because the incentives are all wrong. The operators are paid by the prisoner-day: a fixed amount for every prisoner every day he/she is there. So the operator's profits increase the more prisoners it has and the longer it keeps them. So they lobby for more crimes and longer sentences; they make more profit by skimping on food quality and quantity, by minimizing medical staff and facilities, by paying guards poorly so they only hire people who can't get better paying jobs elsewhere, etc.
The purpose of ICE detention may be to make life so miserable that people may not even WANT to ever come to visit the USA, much less move there. Mullin is basically removing the welcome mat to the USA especially if he doesn't want international flights to come to sanctuary cities.
People may well be concerned that if they come to the US perfectly innocently as tourists or students or business visitors, they may wind up in ICE detention with no way out and no way even to question their situation. Mullin, Miller, and others are working to make the country hostile to anybody who wasn't born here...and some who were.
The ICE Gestapo remains an affront to human dignity and in violation of the Constitution.
It will take at least a full generation of sane adults running the government to see the US returning to its pre-Don the Con status. I'm old enough to be collecting social security, and sad to say, I don't think I'll see an America true to the law in my lifetime-- the penetration of Trump's lawlessness is that deep! The chances of several consecutive sane adult administrations happening in the US aren't much better than the chance that the sun will rise in the west tomorrow.
Yes, the cruelty is the point. But also the fact that these "donors" to the orange dumpster have to make as much money they possibly can in as short a period of time as possible. After all, January 2027 and January 2029 are not that far off for their money-grubbing, but too far off for the poor detainees.
The world judged Germans who failed to call out and stop the Concentration Camps of the Third Reich. Now here we are. History will no doubt judge all of us for turning a blind eye to the human rights atrocities. We must remember that remaining in the US without documentation is NOT a crime. At is a civil infraction to be dealt with like unintentional tax errors. This gestapo action by the Trump admin must be stopped immediately. Yes, it is more tedious to do the careful legal investigation and work to deal with undocumented persons. But this is the US. It is not a tin pot kleptocracy. Or at least it wasn't before Trump.
If we can get millions of people together for a No Kings Day we also need to organize a day where there’s a demonstration, in all 50 states, in front of every detention center—including Senators, MofC, and other government officials. Shine a light on these concentration camps!
Allow observers to visit these prisons. A very simple request, isn't it? Denying these observers is a complete admission to the wrongs perpetrated there.
Another use for a reparation fund: victims of ICE. The funds should come right out of Trump's and his enablers' own pockets.
Thank’s Contrarians/Tim Dickinson for putting a spotlight on the Concentration Camps for Profit, that are being paid for by We the People’s taxes, We the Peeps need to shut these abominations down and prevent new ones, like we have to prevent the damn Data Centers!!!!
Today's nastiest official goes to WayneBow. Hard to be angry about Pulte's rise to power when you have WayneBow torturing immigrants and attacking Americans. I feel sick.
Whitewashing by calling it a "detention facility" is offensive. Call it what it is: "concentration camp."
"In fact, under the new leadership of DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin, the cruelty continues."
Really, did we expect anything different? Mullin didn't say that he was going to make any changes or do any housecleaning at DHS. It was and is business as usual. No doubt he will claim that he and DHS have no oversight over what a privately run prison can do to its inmates. What has our system of justice become that we treat human beings in this inhumane manner? "The cruelty, after all, was the point." It still is and continues to be. Why is it allowed?
Has anyone noticed the adoring look KZ-master Miller is giving to his master in the red tie?
The 2ft x 2ft cages and use as punishment sound very much like what is used in survival training for the military, especially pilots, to prepare them for the eventuality of captivity. I think these may have existed in the Hanoi Hilton. I have seen this mode of punishment in movies. For someone to say the detainees were well fed and had excellent medical care is an absolute lie. These are concentration camps in every sense of the word. The American public has been deceived by media now owned by billionaires in the Trump circle. The destruction of 60 Minutes is just one example of what happens when Trump supporters and loyalists are installed in the media we could once count on.
Concentration camps are not the only parallel. The United States has done this, itself, before. To children.
The Indian boarding schools were notorious for torture, abuse and starvation.