Building the camps
More and more news reports are popping up, describing warehouses the administration is acquiring, with plans to convert them to detention facilities. ICE has spent nearly three-quarter of a billion dollars acquiring these formerly commercial sites. And that’s in addition to other places, like the tent city Camp East Montana, already operating around the country.
Before the election, Donald Trump said he would deport as many as 20 million U.S. residents. We are witnessing the fusion of that wish with on-the-ground efforts to meet a horrific goal.
Whatever noises Trump made about dialing back the aggressive actions from immigration enforcement agents after the killings of two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis, there has been no real halt to the ethnic cleansing project driven by Stephen Miller and blessed by the president. On the streets, the secret police’s tactics of ICE and Border Patrol are becoming more strategic. But the overall mission is moving full speed ahead.
Last April, acting ICE director Todd Lyons mentioned wanting to run deportations like a business. In my research into concentration camp systems that have existed around the world over the last 130 years, I’ve seen that when a government is dealing with scrapping due process for millions, detaining them, physically breaking them down, and removing them from society, it often comes down to a question of logistics. And by the time logistics are the focus of the questions being asked, a country is in a bad place.
I’ve mentioned before that concentration camp regimes in their early stages often make use of large open infrastructure to convert into detention spaces. Dachau was converted from a shuttered factory into a concentration camp in 1933.
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