Let's call these places what they are: concentration camps.

There is no end to the grift and corruption in the GOP.

This is all a money grab courtesy of the American taxpayers. We're all chumps.

DHS paid a Russian oligarch, Andrey Sharkov, $130,000,000 for a warehouse in Social Circle, Georgia, a town of 5,000. The Russian paid $29,000,000 for the property in 2023 & last year its assessed value was still $29,000,000. ICE paid 4 TIMES the assessed value for the property.

Anonymous wrote:We spent $32 million taxpayer dollars to deport 300 people, paid to corrupt regimes.

““A 30-page report from Senate Foreign Relations Committee Democrats, released on Thursday and shared with the Guardian, details how the US government paid more than $32m to five foreign governments – including some of the world’s most corrupt regimes – to accept approximately 300 third-country nationals deported from the US”

Excerpt From
“US paid $32m to five countries to accept about 300 deportees, report shows”
Joseph Gedeon, Andrew Roth
The Guardian
https://apple.news/Ao0xsnOGxTBGq3cj-0NobDw
This material may be protected by copyright.”

Congress did not approve this spending. Trump should have to pay it back.

Anonymous wrote:What will we do when / if we find out that these detention centers are modern day concentration camps, and most in there are not dangerous/violently criminals. Can we live with ourselves as human beings?

Tell us how to stop it.

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know the number of unlawfully present individuals who have received a final order of removal? It was looking for numbers online and saw in 2024 it was 1.4 mil. Wouldn’t this be the group targeted for deportation? Not people with pending benefit applications unless they were found inadmissible?

One can be lawfully present and have an order of deportation.

IMO if you are going to go out and protest ICE you should at least take a few minutes to understand how people- legally (with a visa) or illegally present - can get an order of deportation.

One way that can affect the most average normal person is that immigration law has its own definition of felony and it doesn’t have to match the definition of state or local law. It’s very easy for someone to get arrested for something minor , get a 12 month jail sentence, have almost all the sentence suspended, and as a result be immediately deportable. One has to make sure they have a lawyer who is knowledge of both criminal and immigration law.

And yes these persons are criminals bc they committed a crime. However I feel the majority of people felt ‘targeting criminals’ meant those who committed murder, etc not the person living down the street who has a kid, spouse, and job but made a mistake when the were younger by shoplifting and never did anything else wrong were the kind of people to be targeted. But they are targeted because they are easy, the already has an order of removal.

So if an ICE protestor really was sincere in helping, they would being doing something worthwhile like making sure the local community had knowledge public defenders of immigration law, they would help those facing charges understand the impact of their case and outcome on their immigration status, and they would work to change the immigration law. All of these things or just one of the would have a far greater impact that screaming at ICE in the streets

Anonymous wrote:Half a trillion dollars is indeed expensive.

Racism is expensive.

We spent $32 million taxpayer dollars to deport 300 people, paid to corrupt regimes.

““A 30-page report from Senate Foreign Relations Committee Democrats, released on Thursday and shared with the Guardian, details how the US government paid more than $32m to five foreign governments – including some of the world’s most corrupt regimes – to accept approximately 300 third-country nationals deported from the US”

Excerpt From
“US paid $32m to five countries to accept about 300 deportees, report shows”
Joseph Gedeon, Andrew Roth
The Guardian
https://apple.news/Ao0xsnOGxTBGq3cj-0NobDw
This material may be protected by copyright.”

Holy crap

Half a trillion dollars is indeed expensive.

Anonymous wrote:What will we do when / if we find out that these detention centers are modern day concentration camps, and most in there are not dangerous/violently criminals. Can we live with ourselves as human beings?

We already know that they are. We’ve seen video. We’ve heard from people that were given limited access. So limited that we can assume that those horrible conditions are likely the best that they could show.

Justice is going to be ugly for the people doing this.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The ICE chief shared in a hearing today - ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists.

That's 2%

What are we even doing?

See, this is where the math is crazy. In the hearing they kept returning to the tens of thousands of rapists and other violent criminals and sex offenders, and the message from Trump has ALWAYS been that immigrants are criminals.
1) if they are all criminals, then why can't they arrest more who are?
2) why aren't they targeting those tens of thousands instead?

The very fact that these people who not get court appointed attorneys is proof that these do not involve criminal proceedings.

Also, they complained about sanctuary locations that release convicted criminals with ICE detainers when their sentences are complete. Well, shouldn't the question be why isn't ICE keeping track of this so they can pick them up? I'm not sure if all jurisdictions require corrections facilities to notify ICE of releases, but I do know that it is the policy in Minnesota and sometimes ICE doesn't show up.

And, keeping people beyond their sentence waiting for ICE arrives becomes a liability issue for the facility.

Anonymous wrote:What will we do when / if we find out that these detention centers are modern day concentration camps, and most in there are not dangerous/violently criminals. Can we live with ourselves as human beings?

This is why local people are fighting the warehouses purchased by ice in their communities- even in rural Pa which is (former) trump country- 450 signatures on a petition in record time to fight the sale of the warehouse to ICE.