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Outrage is mounting in Georgia and across the United States as the federal government moves to dramatically expand Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention capacity as part of an escalating war on immigrants. In rural Social Circle, Georgia, local officials revealed that ICE intends to purchase a 1.2 million-square-foot warehouse and convert it into a massive detention complex capable of holding up to 10,000 people, a scale of incarceration not seen in the United States since the mass imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

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[–] night_petal@piefed.social 3 points 1 hour ago

I live in GA, and this has been talked about quite a bit in NPR and other radio stations. It's important to know that Social Circle might as well be called MAGAville. They aren't passed about people being detained. Quite the opposite. The strange hypocrisy is that one of the core tenets of being a conservative is also being a NIMBY. They don't want their town to change (especially not by adding a ton of non-detainee residents).

[–] apftwb@lemmy.world 16 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachau_concentration_camp

After the takeover of Bavaria on 9 March 1933, Heinrich Himmler, then Chief of Police in Munich, began to speak with the administration of an unused gunpowder and munitions factory. He toured the site to see if it could be used for quartering protective-custody prisoners.

Himmler announced in the Münchner Neueste Nachrichten newspaper that the camp could hold up to 5,000 people, and described it as "the first concentration camp for political prisoners" to be used to restore calm to Germany.[18] It became the first regular concentration camp established by the coalition government of the National Socialist German Worker's Party (Nazi Party) and the German National People's Party (dissolved on 6 July 1933). Dachau was the concentration camp that was in operation the longest, from March 1933 to April 1945, nearly all twelve years of the Nazi regime.

History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

“Restore calm”

Funny way of saying “silence dissidence and create an atmosphere of oppressive fear.”

[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 10 points 8 hours ago

It won't be just for immigrants.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 66 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Reminder that these detainees are a mix of US citizens, legal immigrants, legal immigrants made illegal by this admin by taking away their status, and illegal immigrants. Most are law abiding and tax paying people.

[–] IratePirate@feddit.org 24 points 13 hours ago

Most are law abiding and tax paying people

...which makes them the natural enemies of this admin of crooks, which are neither of the two.

[–] const_void@lemmy.ml 11 points 12 hours ago

Hence why they’re building a new prison for them instead of sending them back to their home country.

[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 6 points 8 hours ago

"Capable of holding 10,000 people"

I guarantee if this gets built they will shove 5 times that amount of people in there.

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 27 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

"for immigrants"

Yes, just keep telling yourselves that, it's only for immigrants, surely they'll never be used for anyone but immigrants. Even while ICE is already having trouble finding enough brown people -- illegal immigrant or not -- to arrest to fulfill their quotas, they're still buying up and building more space solely for housing "immigrants". Right. Uh huh.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 9 points 12 hours ago

They're trying to build massive concentration camps while deporting anyone who is even slightly brown or "ethnic", often to countries they have zero connection to. So I ask you, who are these concentration camps for?

Hint: System of a Down got it right

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 hours ago

It will always be for "immigrants". But Trump, through an "emergency executive order in the name of national security' gets to define who is an "immigrant".

[–] Monstrosity@lemmy.today 27 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

Here's the plan in question if you're not interested in clicking through: Inhumane & repugnant.

[–] cybervseas@lemmy.world 30 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

Dude is spitting facts

[–] ebolapie@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

but they have accessible rooms? Smdh woke concentration camps smh my head

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 16 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

ICE should be disbanded and anyone responsible for this kind of thing should be arrested.

I'd love to see Democrats running on that for 2026 elections.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 17 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I’d love to see Democrats running on that for 2026 elections.

Dems: "Best I can do is running on slightly reforming ICE, and maybe making it illegal for them to wear masks ... unless it's cold or they feel it's necessary for their safety."

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

"Centrists" or as I like to call them, "cowards"

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 7 points 12 hours ago

Or as I like to call them, "collaborators".

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 4 points 13 hours ago

Bro you guys need the nuremberg trials 2.0 before this is over.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

ICE needs to be tried in front of a court of law, and that is the compromise position

[–] a9249@lemmy.ca 7 points 12 hours ago

Wont be long now before the gas chambers make a comeback too.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 7 points 13 hours ago

And when they feel like they've got a handle on the immigrants, they'll use those Concentration Camps to hold those they can lease out to corporations as Federal Slaves.

Who will be in those camps? People who have too much debt, are unemployed, homeless, need government assistance, protesters, dissenters, etc.

Also, they are currently building a facility in Guantanamo Bay, to hold 30,000 people. It currently holds about 200, and the largest maximum security prison in America holds 8300. If they're building a place for 30K, they must be planning on locking up a LOT of people.

[–] Dragomus@lemmy.world 8 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

When will the realization strike that it is not for immigrants?

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 3 points 12 hours ago

First they came for the Immigrants

[–] flandish@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

oh look. they have ball court access. so they’re “free range?”

the nazis who build this need a nuremberg.

[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 4 points 12 hours ago

It's going to get real bad and those people who thought three No Kings protests were enough are going to wish they would've done more when they're dragged away to these concentration camps.

[–] Hoohoo@fedia.io 4 points 13 hours ago

Is this going to turn out to be a slavery thing? Do they end up working for the Fed?

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I may have to go visit said spot before there's a ton of security, just for "informational purposes"

[–] UniversalBasicJustice@quokk.au 1 points 11 hours ago

I wonder what it would take to hide dash/trail cams with good sightlines into the facility...

[–] Triumph@fedia.io 1 points 13 hours ago

How many sugars do you take in your coffee? At least a couple of five pound bags, right?

[–] hammertime@lemmy.org -1 points 14 hours ago

Outrage, but no stopping it—or, just a relocation. Zero things are getting better. Don’t let the lib media trick you into having hope.