Concentration Camp America

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The Governor of Nebraska did some kind of a backdoor deal with the Orange Nazi administration to get an ICE prison built. They’re calling it the Cornhusker Clink. Makes me wanna hurl Godzilla sized fetid chunks.

Making a game of nicknaming concentration camps is pretty damned depraved, wouldn’t ya say? (The answer to that rhetorical question is YES, fucking well YES, of course it is!)

I wonder what name the treasonous bastards in Texas will come up with for the concentration camp they slapped together at Fort Bliss, in El Paso. It’s supposed to hold up to 5,000 people and is a tent camp. Maybe they’ll call it the Lone Star Sauna or just go straight for reality and call it the Texas Torture Plantation.

Opened at the height of the Texas summer, where temperatures regularly soar above 100 degrees and sandstorms are frequent, detainees are at serious risk of heat-related illness and other harsh conditions.
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Built behind the walls of a military installation and away from public view, the facility is a calculated move to militarize immigration enforcement, reduce transparency, and fast-track deportations with minimal accountability.
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Fort Bliss has long been used to carry out government policies rooted in xenophobia and racism. During World War II, it was one of several Texas military bases used as internment camps for people of Japanese descent, as well as German and Italian immigrants. During the Mexican Revolution more than 20 years earlier, the base served as a temporary holding site for thousands of Mexican refugees, many of whom were kept in military tents and exposed to toxic chemical delousing agents. Some of the chemicals were later used in Nazi gas chambers. (source) 

According to the Cato Institute 65% of the people abducted by ICE have no convictions AT ALL and 93% don’t have so much as a single violent conviction.

As of June 14, ICE had booked into detention 204,297 individuals (since October 1, 2024, the start of fiscal year 2025). Of those book-ins, 65 percent, or 133,687 individuals, had no criminal convictions. Moreover, more than 93 percent of ICE book-ins were never convicted of any violent offenses. About nine in ten had no convictions for violent or property offenses. (source) 

I’m guessing that most people who come to the U.S. are hoping to lift themselves and their families out of harder lives, greater poverty. Possibly they’re escaping harsh, crushing persecution and/or wild political instability. Maybe they come to join family who’ve already created a life here. 

The crime they’ve committed? Hope. They dream of a better life for themselves and their families. Dat’s it. That’s the crime. Oh, and having brown skin. The orange skinned beast and his pasty white lizard, Stephen Miller, really don’t like it when humans don’t have white, white skin. Maybe they can’t digest brown as well…should prolly see a good gastroenterologist about that, eh?

Back to the camps though…you can give nazi concentration camps all the cute little names but they’re still nazi concentration camps. Calling them Cornhusker Clink, Speedway Slammer (Indiana), and Alligator Alcatraz doesn’t make them fun, cheeky, sitcom/primetime/family-hour ready. It doesn’t sanitize the suffering and barbarism or in any bloody way make them remotely humane. They’re still cruel and astoundingly disgusting. 

Did Trump and his band of viciously racist scorpions think they could use a little Disney marketing magic to razzle dazzle the masses into not thinking about all the lives they’re destroying? Clearly, yes. They think we’re all rubes who are so easily duped by grade school level sales efforts.

Marketing, in case ya hadn't picked up on this already, is just lies wrapped up in sweet-talk and pretty, soothing, sexy packaging. In 2014 the Nebraska Tourism Commission rolled out their new ad slogan – Nebraska Nice. 

Yeah...right. That’s obviously a big fucking lie.