At least 15 people have died in ICE custody since President Trump took office. Hundreds are still missing. Mostly plucked from the streets, their homes, workplaces, immigration courts, by masked armed thugs, often without warrants. Overwhelming majority of those arrested had committed no felonies. Many were U.S. citizens with the legal right to be here.

This is fascism. And Trump is ensuring that his buddies in the private prison system are profiting handsomely from it.

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/23/nx-s1-5549411/ossoff-warnock-noem-immigration-detention-death

#trump #ice #immigration #prison #concentrationcamps

At least 15 people have died in ICE custody since President Trump took office. Hundreds are still missing. Mostly plucked from the streets, their homes, workplaces, immigration courts, by masked armed thugs, often without warrants. Overwhelming majority of those arrested had committed no felonies. Many were U.S. citizens with the legal right to be here.

This is fascism. And Trump is ensuring that his buddies in the private prison system are profiting handsomely from it.

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/23/nx-s1-5549411/ossoff-warnock-noem-immigration-detention-death

#trump #ice #immigration #prison #concentrationcamps

On the 23ed of August, protesters arrived at the former Baker Correctional Institution. This former prison was closed for human rights violations, now DeSantis wants to reopen it as a concentration camp for ICE.

The protest was small but took place as drenching rain faded to sprinking rain, at a site roughly 2/3'eds of the way from Jacksonville, FL to lke City, FL on US 90. As the protest ended there was an ugly incident of unknown intent. As protesters were loading up their cars, a truck presumably associated with the prison project drove into the driveway to the field the cars were in and blocked it. The truck was between the two police cruisers on either side of the driveway and conversation between them could be heard. As soon as someone got a camera up aimed at this, they wrapped up their conversation and in minutes the truck was gone and the exit route was open. Unknown if that was random chance with that truck having business there anyway, a deliberate "fake kettle" psy-op, or something else.

On the 23ed of August, protesters arrived at the former Baker Correctional Institution. This former prison was closed for human rights violations, now DeSantis wants to reopen it as a concentration camp for ICE.

The protest was small but took place as drenching rain faded to sprinking rain, at a site roughly 2/3'eds of the way from Jacksonville, FL to lke City, FL on US 90. As the protest ended there was an ugly incident of unknown intent. As protesters were loading up their cars, a truck presumably associated with the prison project drove into the driveway to the field the cars were in and blocked it. The truck was between the two police cruisers on either side of the driveway and conversation between them could be heard. As soon as someone got a camera up aimed at this, they wrapped up their conversation and in minutes the truck was gone and the exit route was open. Unknown if that was random chance with that truck having business there anyway, a deliberate "fake kettle" psy-op, or something else.

Then the king will say to those on his right, "come, you who are blessed by my father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world."

For I was an immigrant and you put a mask on your face, threatened me with a gun, smashed my car window, disappeared me to a concentration camp in a swamp, and fed me from dishes on the floor.

#Trump#Republicans#Jesus #evangelicals#Christians #bible #immigrants#ConcentrationCamps#MaskedThugs
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They've gone from sending:
- undocumented "illegal" immigrants
- documented "legal" immigrants

to concentration camps,

and have now moved onto rounding up and sending:
- the homeless
- individuals with mental illnesses

to concentration camps.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/ending-crime-and-disorder-on-americas-streets/

#EO#executiveOrder #homelessness #homeless#mentalHealth#ICE#concentrationCamps

They've gone from sending:
- undocumented "illegal" immigrants
- documented "legal" immigrants

to concentration camps,

and have now moved onto rounding up and sending:
- the homeless
- individuals with mental illnesses

to concentration camps.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/ending-crime-and-disorder-on-americas-streets/

#EO#executiveOrder #homelessness #homeless#mentalHealth#ICE#concentrationCamps

"As someone who has written about and celebrated Alexei Navalny, I don’t use the word 'gulag' lightly. But unlike with Soviet-era or even Putin-era Russia, you thought that couldn’t happen here, right? Guess again. It already has. Or at least a Nerf version of it. No, we’re not executing prisoners just yet."

~ Matt Labash

#Trump#StephenMiller#ICE #immigrants#ConcentrationCamps #torture #gulags
/1

https://mattlabash.substack.com/p/tortured-logic

Tim Miller talks with Mehdi Hasan about his brave decision to face the spittle-spewing screaming meemies of the fascist right in a Jubilee debate — and about how racist hostility to black and brown immigrants (like Hasan himself) is the energizing center of the fascist right.

#Trump#StephenMiller#ICE #immigrants#ConcentrationCamps #torture #gulags
/5

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/mehdi-hasan-jubilee-debate-left-me

"There are lines you cannot cross as a human being, and moving one’s own personal Overton Window over far enough to accommodate shackling people and making them eat like dogs, or stay in a cell with a toilet covered in shit, is not something that will end well for those around you."

#Trump#StephenMiller#ICE #immigrants#ConcentrationCamps #torture #gulags
/4

"I think victims, in many cases (not the ones where they die from neglect), can recover from horrific treatment like this, but I don’t think doing it is something a person can come back from."

Robyn Pennacchia

#Trump#StephenMiller#ICE #immigrants#ConcentrationCamps #torture #gulags
/3

https://www.wonkette.com/p/ice-has-entered-its-abu-ghraib-era

"(Though I wouldn’t be surprised if 20 percent or so of our population would find a way to rationalize that, too. Because that’s how far we’ve fallen.) But just this week, the Drudge Report was littered with headlines about such activities. Here’s a sampling:

Migrants Forced To 'Eat Like Dogs'
'Caged Like Chickens'
Camera Over Toilet
FEMA Camp Raises Alarm

Are you okay with that? I’m not."

#Trump#StephenMiller#ICE #immigrants#ConcentrationCamps #torture #gulags
/2

"As someone who has written about and celebrated Alexei Navalny, I don’t use the word 'gulag' lightly. But unlike with Soviet-era or even Putin-era Russia, you thought that couldn’t happen here, right? Guess again. It already has. Or at least a Nerf version of it. No, we’re not executing prisoners just yet."

~ Matt Labash

#Trump#StephenMiller#ICE #immigrants#ConcentrationCamps #torture #gulags
/1

https://mattlabash.substack.com/p/tortured-logic

"In New York, ICE attorneys are concealing their names, something that has never happened in the history of this country."

~ Marcie Jones

#Trump#StephenMiller #immigrants #deportations#ICE#ConcentrationCamps #cruelty
/10

https://www.wonkette.com/p/ice-nazi-cruelty-report-dhs-discovers

"The United Church of Christ passed a resolution at its General Synod in the US this week denouncing what it called 'domestic terrorism' by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and accusing the Trump administration of weaponising the Constitution."

Rachel Berkebile

#Trump#StephenMiller #immigrants #deportations#ICE#ConcentrationCamps #cruelty
/12

https://sightmagazine.com.au/news/in-the-us-united-church-of-christ-synod-denounces-ice-raids-as-domestic-terrorism/

"Amazing. New CNN poll has Trump's approval on immigration absolutely tanking. It's down to 42-58. A 19-point net swing against him on this issue in just the last few months.

Curious what those who keep saying we're in the midst of a huge societal backlash to 1965 immigration law think of this."

~ Greg Sargent

#Trump#StephenMiller #immigrants #deportations#ICE#ConcentrationCamps #cruelty
/14

https://bsky.app/profile/gregsargent.bsky.social/post/3lu3qaoqr222y

"The measure was approved by a vote of 627-8, with one abstention, at the UCC’s 35th biennial General Synod, which began on Friday and continued through Tuesday in Kansas City, Missouri. The resolution reaffirmed a prior resolution from the 31st synod, in 2017, 'On Becoming an Immigrant Welcoming Church.'”

#Trump#StephenMiller #immigrants #deportations#ICE#ConcentrationCamps #cruelty
/13

"The United Church of Christ passed a resolution at its General Synod in the US this week denouncing what it called 'domestic terrorism' by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and accusing the Trump administration of weaponising the Constitution."

Rachel Berkebile

#Trump#StephenMiller #immigrants #deportations#ICE#ConcentrationCamps #cruelty
/12

https://sightmagazine.com.au/news/in-the-us-united-church-of-christ-synod-denounces-ice-raids-as-domestic-terrorism/