cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/34165884

Documents released Thursday offer the most complete picture to date of the Trump administration’s controversial and costly plan to overhaul immigrant detention using industrial buildings.

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  • grue@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    They’re called “concentration camps.” Anything less is euphemistic propaganda.

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    6 hours ago

    I thought part of the whole anti-immigrant argument was they are living off the government.

    Isn’t holding them for an undetermined amount of time exactly that, but with more steps?

    • JennyLaFae@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      5 hours ago

      Well you see, American propaganda has been focusing on racism and xenophobia while having a deep culture of punishment and using wealth as a moral litmus.

      They’re ok with this because it’s punishing people who’s crimes include not being born white in the US or having enough wealth to insulate from consequences.

      Public outcry only peaked because white people were killed for exercising their rights, too many are still ok with what’s going on when its happening to immigrants.

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      Whenever there is a discussion about helping people, we have to talk about means testing and talk about austerity and the budget and the deficit and handouts and get lectures from the Epstein Class about the honor of working for a living and so on.

      When it comes to punching down on someone, whether it’s bombing brown people in foreign lands or building out the concentration camps for brown people here (well, they are just planned to be the first), it’s SHUT UP AND TAKE MY (the American taxpayers’) MONEY!

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      Can’t be having all these illegals running around getting all this free Healthcare we don’t have!

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    I wonder where they are… Recently a warehouse in OKC was going to be purchased for this, but the seller backed out because it was going to be a detention center.

    Actually, they backed out because the locals threw a fit about it. We should do more of that.

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    7 hours ago

    And by turn into they mean empty out. They aren’t building anything, they only know how to tear things down.