Not even rural Arkansas wants one of these prisons.

FRANKLIN COUNTY, Ark.— “Most signs along the bucolic roads of this conservative rural community in Republican-led Arkansas carry exhortations to follow Jesus or offer stump-grinding services and hay for sale. 
These days, new signs sit in the prairie grass: “SAY NO TO THE PRISON! Keep the country, country.”
Plans for a 3,000-bed prison on 815 acres of rocky pasture south of the broad Arkansas River, led by Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, face an unlikely rebellion from a group of MAGA conservatives. The feud has gone from nasty to nastier, and both sides say they are following what President Trump would want.”
https://apple.news/AZQJ8bFMKRAmAxJrhMe_Jqw

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Anonymous wrote:Ok what's the alternative? They need to go somewhere?

If they’ve committed a violent crime, they should already be in jail or prison same as if a citizen did it. If their only offense is being in the country illegally, deport them right away. There’s no reason to round up nonviolent offenders and store them in a warehouse like chattel.

As always with Republicans today, the cruelty is the point. Not efficiency. Not good policy. Not what works. The opportunity to be cruel is the driving energy of MAGA Republicans.

Being in the country without documentation is a CIVIL, not a criminal offense. They should not be jailed at all.

Cruelty is definitely the point. Miller must have been dissed by a Latina, and he's getting his revenge on the entire culture.

Jailed - no. Detained - yes. So distinction without a difference. Probably worse if an asylum seeker, given the backlog.

Frankly, our jails are nicer and better run than these detention centers.

This is some good news if true

“A federal judge in Maryland on Wednesday issued a temporary restraining order halting construction work on an immigration detention center that the Department of Homeland Security had planned to begin operating next month, citing concerns about the facility’s potential environmental impacts.
Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown filed an emergency motion on Tuesday seeking a 14-day pause on a renovation project transforming an enormous empty warehouse in Washington County into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility that would house up to 1,500 detainees facing deportation.
The federal government, Brown argued, had not conducted required environmental impact studies on the Williamsport structure and was proceeding without public input or state consultation. Maryland sued the Trump administration in February to stop the project.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/03/11/ice-warehouse-detention-center-lawsuit/?utm_campaign=wp_post_local&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=jtk-flex-day&utm_content=post_local&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F46fb2c9%2F69b29b8a2d50463cd5da4625%2F596bc2b7ae7e8a44e7dcaab7%2F20%2F58%2F69b29b8a2d50463cd5da4625

Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-New Hampshire) and Maggie Hassan (D-New Hampshire) plan to introduce a bill Monday that would bar the Department of Homeland Security from opening new immigration detention centers without state and local officials’ consent.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/02/23/bill-restricts-ice-detention-centers/

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What an utter and complete waste of our tax money.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ok what's the alternative? They need to go somewhere?

If they’ve committed a violent crime, they should already be in jail or prison same as if a citizen did it. If their only offense is being in the country illegally, deport them right away. There’s no reason to round up nonviolent offenders and store them in a warehouse like chattel.

As always with Republicans today, the cruelty is the point. Not efficiency. Not good policy. Not what works. The opportunity to be cruel is the driving energy of MAGA Republicans.

Being in the country without documentation is a CIVIL, not a criminal offense. They should not be jailed at all.

Cruelty is definitely the point. Miller must have been dissed by a Latina, and he's getting his revenge on the entire culture.

Jailed - no. Detained - yes. So distinction without a difference. Probably worse if an asylum seeker, given the backlog.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ok what's the alternative? They need to go somewhere?

If they’ve committed a violent crime, they should already be in jail or prison same as if a citizen did it. If their only offense is being in the country illegally, deport them right away. There’s no reason to round up nonviolent offenders and store them in a warehouse like chattel.

Yes, I could never understand this, unless they are not doing due diligence verifying who has legal rights to stay here and need to do this due diligence retroactively after rounding people up. Which isn't what American populace signed up for, even those who are in favor of mass deportations.

This is the reason to round up nonviolent offenders and store them in a warehouse like chattel.

Anonymous wrote:MAGA is ok with this. They think the Bill of Rights is only applicable to them and the people they like.

MAGA better be careful because a lot of them might end up in one. I wouldn't believe this admin when they say they're for immigrants. This admin lies about everything.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ok what's the alternative? They need to go somewhere?

If they’ve committed a violent crime, they should already be in jail or prison same as if a citizen did it. If their only offense is being in the country illegally, deport them right away. There’s no reason to round up nonviolent offenders and store them in a warehouse like chattel.

As always with Republicans today, the cruelty is the point. Not efficiency. Not good policy. Not what works. The opportunity to be cruel is the driving energy of MAGA Republicans.

Being in the country without documentation is a CIVIL, not a criminal offense. They should not be jailed at all.

Cruelty is definitely the point. Miller must have been dissed by a Latina, and he's getting his revenge on the entire culture.

A lot of right wingers are also against this TBH, worrying that this normalizes detaining people (effectively jailing them) without due process, based purely on suspicion. If detention center excuse is to allow due diligence to make sure wrong people aren't deported. This can mean that any American citizen can be detained based on any type of suspicion with no legal discourse, separated from their family and put into prison like setting for who know how long. The fear is that dissidents or anyone inconvenient to whatever regime (this goes for overreach of BOTH parties) would be primary target. This fear appears to be bipartisan.

I have to add that for the left this fear is that those who protest against ICE actions and other things current administration is doing these prisons would serve as an excuse to intimidate them and neuter any type of movement. For the right (especially those who were vehemently against Covid measures) the fear is that these detention centers will become future quarantine camps where people suspected to carry whatever virus will be imprisoned (but in reality they could also be dissidents of the left wing regime). Logically, this entire idea is against our fundamental American freedoms to not be imprisoned without due diligence. We release dangerous criminals on bail (and without bail in some locations), while we create a system where masses of families can be imprisoned for vague reasons. The worst part of it is because it's immigrant detention centers they are built for families... This itself should give us a pause.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ok what's the alternative? They need to go somewhere?

If they’ve committed a violent crime, they should already be in jail or prison same as if a citizen did it. If their only offense is being in the country illegally, deport them right away. There’s no reason to round up nonviolent offenders and store them in a warehouse like chattel.

As always with Republicans today, the cruelty is the point. Not efficiency. Not good policy. Not what works. The opportunity to be cruel is the driving energy of MAGA Republicans.

Being in the country without documentation is a CIVIL, not a criminal offense. They should not be jailed at all.

Cruelty is definitely the point. Miller must have been dissed by a Latina, and he's getting his revenge on the entire culture.

A lot of right wingers are also against this TBH, worrying that this normalizes detaining people (effectively jailing them) without due process, based purely on suspicion. If detention center excuse is to allow due diligence to make sure wrong people aren't deported. This can mean that any American citizen can be detained based on any type of suspicion with no legal discourse, separated from their family and put into prison like setting for who know how long. The fear is that dissidents or anyone inconvenient to whatever regime (this goes for overreach of BOTH parties) would be primary target. This fear appears to be bipartisan.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ok what's the alternative? They need to go somewhere?

If they’ve committed a violent crime, they should already be in jail or prison same as if a citizen did it. If their only offense is being in the country illegally, deport them right away. There’s no reason to round up nonviolent offenders and store them in a warehouse like chattel.

Yes, I could never understand this, unless they are not doing due diligence verifying who has legal rights to stay here and need to do this due diligence retroactively after rounding people up. Which isn't what American populace signed up for, even those who are in favor of mass deportations.