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Detention centers aren't even jails. You can be there even if you didn't commit any crime. Also conditions are far worse than jails.
In my case it was a cramped room with no beds or such, about 40 people at certain times, and one single toilet without any door inside that room. "Crime" was being an asylum-seeker
You stay anywhere between 2 days to 6 months and your family members may stay a different amount of time.
Closest picture I could find later was this and google search is so bad nowadays I have to check my message history to find it again.
That was the conditions in 2018. I don't want to think 2026.
I keep posting this picture here because it's inhumane and nobody fucking cares outside of lemmy.
One toilet? Fucking hell. I can't even piss in a public washroom if there are other people present.
Holy shit theres like a 3 year old in there.
I'm so sorry and you're right nobody deserves that.
I didn't mean to imply that anyone was being detained for commiting a crime. Just pointing out that the same groups that were making insane amounts of money via private prisons (which also often detained innocent people thanks to a broken justice system) are now making even more insane amounts of money by using their privately owned prisons as detention centers.
They believe that profiting from unnecessary suffering is just being smart business men.
It's a bleak and miserable time because some selfish people have intentionally made it that way, but I hope you know that plenty of people definitely care outside of Lemmy. The people who profit from this shit will never understand the strength of humanity because control and corruption through money is the only source of strength they've ever known. It's why they fear equality and democracy. Fuck fascism, fuck oppression, and fuck the oligarchs who enable it!
Those immigrants kids have more courage than our elected Democrats.
Democrats have none of the levers of power, they can do nothing. I still think a good few who greenlit more ICE funding need to be replaced but by and large even if every democrat had the backbone of Harriet Tubman, they could do nothing. Republicans have majority everywhere.
The Dems have the most important power of all, the overwhelming support of an overwhelming portion of the population. MAGA wants to pretend they have all the power, but as time goes on, we are seeing that even the military and local and state law enforcement are starting to distance themselves.
The Dems have the numbers, by a LOT. And MAGA knows it.
Tl;dr: Democrats are controlled opposition.
When they do have any leverage, they find plenty of reasons not to use it. The Republican party has put on a decades-long master class on being obstructionist little twats, yet most Democrats fail to learn and the few that have often seem more like pressure release valves than actual agents of change.
I can't defend the democrats who crossed over, but I don't believe that the republicans wouldn't be able to whip up votes if they hadn't, and I'd rather a quisling Democrat in a seat over another Republican.
I can agree with that.
Anytime any republican does ANYTHING and says it's "for the children", I want you to remember this exact moment, and know that they are full of shit. THIS is how they treat children.
I don't bother listening to any pedophile's recommendations for child care, and EVERY MAGA is a pedophile.
I recently tracked down a 2a against tyranny type who I knew decades ago. I wanted to get his take on current events.
He is in prison for child porn, so maybe you’re right.
Tracks.
In their minds these are not children they are "illegal aliens".
And thusly will do whatever they want with them because they've dehumanized them so much.
This problem is deeper than both parties, we also allowed children to be in concentration camps in Palestine.. for decades. The US has been changing for the worse since Kennedy died.. we need a revolution, against the slavers. not against our constitution.
The IDF used drones as well as their own automatic weapons to shoot small Palestinian children in the head on the regular. The medical volunteers would see them come in and they told the world about it.
They've killed more journalists than WWI, WWII, Korean war, and the Vietnam war combined in just the last two years... imagine what we don't see..
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Can we just take a moment to answer a simple question: WHY ARE CHILDREN IN A "DETENTION CENTER" IN THE FIRST PLACE?
Trying to create the Mexican joker.
fat white conservatives are afraid of anything not as equally offensive as themselves and commit their limited energy to squashing perceived threats
Authorities love to escalate everything.
If you are foreign-born with a "foreign sounding" name and you defend yourself against a bully in a US school, the school admin will literally call the police on you.
Cuz I was that kid who defended himself. And I got in trouble for fucking self defence.
Or black.
We can just call them concentration camps now. No need to mince words.
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I feel pretty comfortable telling anybody that reads the headline and doesn't immediately side with the kidnapped children who are being forced to live in squalor: 🗣️🔊GO FUCK YOURSELF AND I HOPE YOU BURN IN HELL, YOU SACK OF NAZI DOG SHIT.
How long have those children been in there, huh? I was in juvie pretrial for actual crimes and got outdoor time, school sessions, group therapy. This place have any of that for non-criminal minors?
The whole operation is a money making scheme. They get about $100 per day from the government to detain a person. They are sweeping up as many as they can which clogs up the courts which means they can detain people even longer and make even more money.
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Starting to sound an awful lot like capital ‘C’ Concentration Camps.
Start watching for “deportation” to transition to torture, forced labor, and death by neglect (which has already happened in some cases.)
Torture, forced labor and death by neglect are all already widespread, just look at Seacott.
The bigger question is, what are you doing about it? There are nazi concentration camps on US soil and federal agents are executing white US citizens in the streets.
Are you going to lie down and take that? Are you just gonna post online about it? Or are you going to join the fight against them, find a local activist group or protest, and arm yourself in preparation for the coming revolution?
Just a reminder to those who didnt vote.
You helped this.
What do you have to say about Democrats voting to fund ICE further, and them voting on Trump's nominees? They're doing a pretty piss poor job of circling the wagons for resistance. More like "Hello mister Trump, yes use my tongue as a carpet mister Trump. May I have a treat, if not that's fine?"
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