Thank you for sharing this vital information. I don't believe people don't care about those dying, facing horrific conditions, and facing violence in these gulags. For Good and Pretti there were pictures and context. People can't image these places because they can't see them. There needs to be more pictures and interviews.
I’m white, male, and 75. I agree with you completely except for one thing not included - Good and Pretti were white. If they had been Black or Latino, they would have been invisible, too. We Americans (sadly) are good at that.
You paint a grim picture of the lives that our government is forcing these people to lead. They aren't all undocumented immigrants, but they are all people with names and families. Due process and respect are being intentionally overlooked. As if we weren't aware of the scope of this inhumane behavior, as of this writing, we are no more. Another incident in our history were the internment camps for Japanese people (often U.S. citizens) during WWII.
If we can get millions of people together for No Kings we also need to organize a day where there’s a demonstration, in all 50 states, in front of every detention center—including Senators, MOCs, and other government officials. Shine a light on those concentration camps!
A Canadian citizen and her daughter, married to an American and living in Texas for 5 years with all the proper paperwork allowing her to live and work there, was recently seized by ICE at a highway check stop well away from the Mexican border. She is still in custody weeks later in Dilly. ICE is completely unregulated and apparently agents feel free to commit horrific crimes against anyone, legal or not. The US is isolating itself from the rest of the world, and wondering why going there for tourism or business is something we refuse to do, unwilling to contribute to illegal warfare and domestic violence committed by the government.
Thank you for this sobering account of history reverberating into the present. The worst of us are still among us. Unfortunately, some of the worst of the worst are now in charge of this Country.
As has been the case every single day since trump's second inauguration, I'm upset at him and the regime, for sure. But those truly accountable for these disgraceful and unforgivable sins are the Republican sycophants in Congress who complicitly allow it.
Please, Contrarian Leadership, please dig further into this issue. I frequently run into "apolitical" individuals who do not self-identify as MAGA, but also believe those of us who talk about it are exaggerating. We need more carefully sourced reporting. Because it's really uncomfortable to recognize ourselves as perpetrators of such ugly (not to mention illegal) treatment of our fellow humans, people prefer not to do so. But, persistent documentation that's easily available to anyone can help us shift the personal cost/benefit ratio. Let's make it more difficult to deny the existence of these atrocities, as we simultaneously make it more rewarding to recognize and then mitigate them.
Please publicize the names of all those rich people who own the companies running these private concentration camps. We need to get busy boycotting whatever other ventures they own.
I alo understand that the grandson of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall is on the board of directors of one of these companies! Shame, shame, shame.
I'm surprised at you, Contrarian! Don't whitewash this. They're not "detention camps." In the future please refer to them accurately in the headline: "concentration camps."
Thanks for shining light on this grim and disturbing topic. It royally pisses me off that the government would treat human beings like this. It also pisses me off that these warehouses that don’t meet code to house people is also a public health hazard for everyone.😡😡😡😡😡
While there is no shortage of what to protest or oppose these days, I really want Americans to focus on this travesty of so called "detention". Have we learned nothing from history, including American history? The Contrarian needs to focus on this every day in some way. This cannot be a side note article. I see that there have been very few readers and comments to date [April 1]. This topic must be exposed every day. We have to be the voice on behalf of the silent and the disappeared.
We are all so overwhelmed with the onslaught of atrocities committed by this regime, that it seems like less of a spotlight has been shown lately on these horrific and heartbreaking human rights violations, all at the hands of the U.S. government.
Keep calling Congress relentlessly, show up to protests, and share articles like this one with others who, unbelievably, still don’t seem to know the extent of what’s happening.
Like someone else wrote here, I would also like to see a mass mobilization against this. I’m a white woman. If I was suffering in one of these concentration camps, I would hope that privileged white people would be doing everything they could to help me.
I love your pens. The Deep South was my history in the 60s - 80s then UPenn through the 90s (never saw the orange mussolini once nor did his jackass daddy give enough $$$ to name one f*ing building). I never knew the real horror of human enslavement until I attended a church Bookclub in the 2000s. The book maven (how did she quilt, how did she have time to have children) brought some pretty stark books about slavery to our club. I was literally horrified. And do you know what, that same b*h was proud her granddaughter was going to Liberty U.
Thank you for sharing this vital information. I don't believe people don't care about those dying, facing horrific conditions, and facing violence in these gulags. For Good and Pretti there were pictures and context. People can't image these places because they can't see them. There needs to be more pictures and interviews.
I’m white, male, and 75. I agree with you completely except for one thing not included - Good and Pretti were white. If they had been Black or Latino, they would have been invisible, too. We Americans (sadly) are good at that.
Yes, we were lucky to have brave people out here on the streets of Minneapolis filming ICE’s behavior. Others have suffered in darkness.
You paint a grim picture of the lives that our government is forcing these people to lead. They aren't all undocumented immigrants, but they are all people with names and families. Due process and respect are being intentionally overlooked. As if we weren't aware of the scope of this inhumane behavior, as of this writing, we are no more. Another incident in our history were the internment camps for Japanese people (often U.S. citizens) during WWII.
If we can get millions of people together for No Kings we also need to organize a day where there’s a demonstration, in all 50 states, in front of every detention center—including Senators, MOCs, and other government officials. Shine a light on those concentration camps!
A Canadian citizen and her daughter, married to an American and living in Texas for 5 years with all the proper paperwork allowing her to live and work there, was recently seized by ICE at a highway check stop well away from the Mexican border. She is still in custody weeks later in Dilly. ICE is completely unregulated and apparently agents feel free to commit horrific crimes against anyone, legal or not. The US is isolating itself from the rest of the world, and wondering why going there for tourism or business is something we refuse to do, unwilling to contribute to illegal warfare and domestic violence committed by the government.
Thank you for this sobering account of history reverberating into the present. The worst of us are still among us. Unfortunately, some of the worst of the worst are now in charge of this Country.
As has been the case every single day since trump's second inauguration, I'm upset at him and the regime, for sure. But those truly accountable for these disgraceful and unforgivable sins are the Republican sycophants in Congress who complicitly allow it.
Please, Contrarian Leadership, please dig further into this issue. I frequently run into "apolitical" individuals who do not self-identify as MAGA, but also believe those of us who talk about it are exaggerating. We need more carefully sourced reporting. Because it's really uncomfortable to recognize ourselves as perpetrators of such ugly (not to mention illegal) treatment of our fellow humans, people prefer not to do so. But, persistent documentation that's easily available to anyone can help us shift the personal cost/benefit ratio. Let's make it more difficult to deny the existence of these atrocities, as we simultaneously make it more rewarding to recognize and then mitigate them.
Please publicize the names of all those rich people who own the companies running these private concentration camps. We need to get busy boycotting whatever other ventures they own.
I alo understand that the grandson of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall is on the board of directors of one of these companies! Shame, shame, shame.
I'm surprised at you, Contrarian! Don't whitewash this. They're not "detention camps." In the future please refer to them accurately in the headline: "concentration camps."
Thanks for shining light on this grim and disturbing topic. It royally pisses me off that the government would treat human beings like this. It also pisses me off that these warehouses that don’t meet code to house people is also a public health hazard for everyone.😡😡😡😡😡
While there is no shortage of what to protest or oppose these days, I really want Americans to focus on this travesty of so called "detention". Have we learned nothing from history, including American history? The Contrarian needs to focus on this every day in some way. This cannot be a side note article. I see that there have been very few readers and comments to date [April 1]. This topic must be exposed every day. We have to be the voice on behalf of the silent and the disappeared.
Hard to read as all such matters. What is wrong with these new people in charge!
I’m probably overreacting but this is only 1 or 2 steps away from Auschwitz
I can’t listen to this tonight.
America has level set itself with some of the worst regimes in history with the outrageous treatment of “illegals”.
Thank you for this potent and important article.
We are all so overwhelmed with the onslaught of atrocities committed by this regime, that it seems like less of a spotlight has been shown lately on these horrific and heartbreaking human rights violations, all at the hands of the U.S. government.
Keep calling Congress relentlessly, show up to protests, and share articles like this one with others who, unbelievably, still don’t seem to know the extent of what’s happening.
Like someone else wrote here, I would also like to see a mass mobilization against this. I’m a white woman. If I was suffering in one of these concentration camps, I would hope that privileged white people would be doing everything they could to help me.
Thank you for the article.
How can you be proud of anyone who goes there?
I love your pens. The Deep South was my history in the 60s - 80s then UPenn through the 90s (never saw the orange mussolini once nor did his jackass daddy give enough $$$ to name one f*ing building). I never knew the real horror of human enslavement until I attended a church Bookclub in the 2000s. The book maven (how did she quilt, how did she have time to have children) brought some pretty stark books about slavery to our club. I was literally horrified. And do you know what, that same b*h was proud her granddaughter was going to Liberty U.