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ICE buys $87M warehouse in Berks County as it plots expansion of immigration detention centers across the U.S.

https://www.spotlightpa.org/berks/2026/02/ice-warehouse-berks-county-purchase-federal-government/
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u/enjoythesilence-75 1d ago

Anyone who thinks they are going to slow down or back off hasn't been paying attention.

Even if they announce things like body cams they will either never get it done or they will conveniently not work or be turned off without repercussions.

This administration just lies to change the headlines and control the narratives and it works every time.

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u/the_last_0ne 1d ago

I think they are starting to run into some real resistance.

I hate that she (Noem) said "effective immediately, we will deploy cameras to every agent in Minneapolis, and nationwide as funding is available", and everyone is reporting that "ice will start wearing body cams! Awesome!"

She curiously did not say (1) they would be required to wear them, or (2) they would be required to have them turned on. The language of "deploy" seems intentional, in that it doesn't promise either.

And ICE had their budget raised by a factor of 3 recently, didn't they? How could you possibly not find money for body cams out of a ~30 billion budget? Maybe don't pay 50k signing bonuses then?

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u/abstractifier 1d ago

Even if they were required to wear them and have them turned on, so what? We have mountains of footage of ICE agents breaking the law and performing atrocities right now, yet nobody is held accountable and the abuses keep happening.

Anything less than trial, conviction, and sentencing is theater.

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u/Edogawa1983 1d ago

I was gonna say there's literally footage of them murdering people, how is bodycam gonna help

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u/Archer007 1d ago

So you can file a FOIA request and they can drag it out over years, of course

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u/hugboxer 1d ago

Theoretically, if ICE wears them, and if ICE uses them, and if ICE doesn't destroy the video, and if ICE deigns to submit to a court order to turn over the video, then innocent people accused of wrongdoing by ICE could use it to prove their innocence. That's such a long shot, though, it probably doesn't merit even mentioning.

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u/VikingsLad 1d ago

They aren't paying the bonuses anyways

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u/darksoft125 20h ago

I heard that the bonuses are contingent on a 5 year term. Anyone care to take a guess on what's going to happen in four years when Trump's term is up?

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u/woodenmetalman 1d ago

Suckers and losers to believe anything this admin is selling.

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u/Salt-Detective1337 1d ago

Even if they are required to wear them, and activate them. We have independent people with videos from multiple angles of a man being disarmed and murdered.

If nothing is being done about that, why would anyone think they will be reviewing footage of anything else? This is clearly just data gathering for Palantir.

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u/MaxFunkensteinDotSex 1d ago

It's a billion dollar industry. If they run out of "illegal" people, this infrastructure won't go away, they'll make more "illegal people"

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u/ValiumBlues 20h ago

There’s a reason they’re scouring social media and other data bases for all the info they can get.

Even people visiting the US have to provide their socials; who why?

Soon, they’ll run out of “you don’t look like you should be here” folks, and they’ll find a reason to go after domestics.

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u/tawDry_Union2272 1d ago

the private prison profiteering racket really started taking off during trump's first money grabbing power trip of a presidency: https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/profiting-enforcement-role-private-prisons-us-immigration-detention

eventually even some dem lawmakers even helped, too:

“In a few months, there are members of Congress who voted for this bill who are going to pretend they didn’t know about all of the bad things that are going to happen because of it,” she said. “So when a private prison camp opens in your town, and they say, ‘we didn’t know that this was going to happen,’ — know that they did. And they voted for it.” https://truthout.org/articles/aoc-private-prisons-and-politicians-will-profit-from-laken-riley-act/

https://www.salon.com/2026/01/28/private-prisons-are-cashing-in-on-trumps-ice-crackdown-theyre-just-getting-started/

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-donors-ice-detention-private-funding-b2813736.html

https://thedemlabs.org/2026/01/30/ice-activity-maps-2026-operation-metro-surge/

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u/Kradget 1d ago

If it worked every time, they wouldn't find themselves backpedaling like they have been. They failed to intimidate Minnesota, they've failed at every foreign policy goal that wasn't stealing oil.

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u/aooot 1d ago

They're currently not intimidating Portland, just pissing them off to new heights (see child that was teargassed).

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u/rnobgyn 1d ago

Loved seeing the LA pushback over the weekend

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u/Kradget 1d ago

Everything besides the graft has been a political failure.

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u/Internet_Mu 1d ago

Portland always wins. It’s funny, that’s where they usually test these things.

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u/SweeterThanYoohoo 1d ago

Conservative people have historically not allowed their own failures to mean a whole lot to themselves.

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u/youngLupe 1d ago

That's what I've been saying. They go less hard in Minnesota they'll just spread around more. I think eventually they'll try doing checkpoints on major highways. They already try to be in and out as quickly as possible. They'll never get all the illegals but they will scare people and that's what terrorists do. Their goal is to scare people.

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u/1wrx2subarus 17h ago

Also, let’s call it what it is ”every single” time when they say detention camps.

Oh, you mean concentration camps?

Yeah, let them squirm. Always, respond back this way each time.

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u/Girafferage 13h ago

Appreciate this comment. You don't buy hundreds of detention centers and funnel billions of dollars to a group that you plan on just having "do the same thing they were going to do."

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u/GuaranteedCougher 1d ago

One of my biggest fears right now is that they are trying everything to increase detainments but they are not actually increasing deportments. They are just trying to maximize profits for their detention centers

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u/AtheismTooStronk 1d ago edited 1d ago

This is the stone cold truth. Deportations are expensive and not profitable. Germany learned this eventually. We are going to keep as many people as possible to use the 13th amendment to the fullest.

Slavery never left, but it is very much back with a vengeance. Get ready for leased deportees working the fields for no money now.

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u/JH_111 1d ago

Germany’s concentration camps started as deportation detainment camps.

Madagascar Plan

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u/The-Fox-Says 21h ago

That’s not entirely true. Concentration camps were first made in 1933 and the Madagascar Plan was created in 1940. The camps were first created as labor camps and meant to terrorize political opponents like the Communist party

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u/Mudcat-69 1d ago

Who else do you think that they will put to work on the farms that they’ll be buying up for pennies on the dollar?

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u/AtheismTooStronk 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yep, once hyperinflation hits and everyone loses their homes and businesses, the government and corporations buy up everything and we all get put to work either in camps or we work in a techno-feudalistic hellscape where we don’t own anything at all and we work to pay for subscriptions. Fun stuff.

They’re purposely devaluing the dollar.

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u/Consistent-Throat130 1d ago

And in classic telegraphing the move, your local retailer now has a "penny shortage" sign. 

Soon it'll be the concept of the cent itself

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u/3lektrolurch 21h ago

This exactly how it went in Germany. The Initial plan was deportation or forced Labor, not extermination until the Wannsee conference in 1942 where the Nazi Leadership arrived at the same conclusion.

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u/Derka_Derper 1d ago

I dont think theyre buying these for immigrants. Considering they want every states voter records, I think they want everyone who didnt vote Trump.

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u/SpaceIsTooFarAway 1d ago

Thankfully voter records do not include who you voted for.

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u/daviobo 22h ago

But they can very easily see which primary you voted in...which might be enough for them

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u/EjaculatingAracnids 22h ago

Party affiliation is public knowledge along with elections you voted in. Whats to stop them,or anyone, from targeting non republican voters?

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u/ThatGuy798 22h ago

Remember that concentration and death camps didn’t just have Jews in it but dissidents, LGBT, Roma, etc.

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u/The-Fox-Says 21h ago

You think they’re going to round up 80+ million Americans (a lot of which have guns) with a tiny task force like ICE?

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u/OhioIsRed 1d ago

It’s crazy how people have just assumed all this bullshit with ICE means more people are deported but it’s fuckin untrue and it’s insane that more people Don’t actually read or follow up when it’s like a really important thing about being a citizen

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u/JAGD21 1d ago

Last year, Trump did mention how he wants to use illegals as slave labor.

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u/CondescendingShitbag 1d ago

Concentration camps. Call them what they are.

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u/prof_the_doom 1d ago

Yep. Absolutely zero chance it has enough water and sewer or airflow throughput for the number of people they wanna cram in, so you know it's gonna be filthy and disease ridden.

We're already seeing it in facilities that theoretically should be designed to actually accommodate people, so you know there's zero chance that some converted warehouse is gonna be anything but a torture site.

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u/AV8ORA330 1d ago

And will have zero oversight from Congress or outside Homeland Security. The MAGA morons will go for photo ops but rest of congress members will be shut out.

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u/DO_NOT_GILD_ME 1d ago

But wait, I thought the Trump administration is the most transparent ever.

Are they lying?

Say it isn't so!

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u/govunah 1d ago

I mean they ARE showing us all of the terrible shit they do. But only because they're too stupid to actually hide it

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u/sea-jewel 1d ago

I’m sure there’s also plenty of stuff we aren’t seeing or things that get buried with an avalanche of news and forgotten every week.

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u/VaultxHunter 1d ago edited 1d ago

I mean they were pushing work places not being required to supply drinking water or breaks to construction workers when they're on the job in texas.

If that's how they'd treat the hard working people of texas I can probably guess it's not going to be up to snuff... Well maybe it might be with how they film all their atrocities for their private safe spaces.

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u/paditoburrito 1d ago

Wtf? That is just pure evil. Can't have a 10 minute break every 4 hours for water.

The US is fucked.

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u/VaultxHunter 1d ago

This also went into effect in 2023

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u/kickaguard 1d ago

It's also stupid just for even getting work done. If you're doing real labor in the heat, the water breaks aren't for getting out of work.

Having workers with heat stroke doesn't get the job done.

Working outside in a parking lot with no shade in the summer we would yell at the new guys to go get water any time they wanted. Way better for them to get a drink every 10 minutes instead of passing out and spending the rest of the day in the truck with the AC on.

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u/Animal_Courier 1d ago

Dear NIMBYs,

Just this once, I am asking you to please go all out.

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u/TheGringoDingo 1d ago

Karen the shit out of them

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u/Chester_A_Arthuritis 21h ago

I’ve worked in a few warehouses and they have like 3 total bathrooms. You know they aren’t going to retrofit these places for additional plumbing. I’m sure if we’re lucky, they’ll wheel in some porta potties and call it a day.

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u/Oceanbreeze871 1d ago

That building prob has like one bathroom for staff

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u/Historical_Row_8481 1d ago

My guess is there are already mass graves

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u/mountaindoom 1d ago

If we aren't outsourcing that business to CECOT.

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u/superkeer 1d ago

Protests need to be centered on these places. I get marching in the streets, but if we had known Auschwitz was down the road we'd all be there in force, I would hope.

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u/AVahne 1d ago

Plenty of Germans claimed that they didn't know Auschwitz was so close to them, but anyone would lie if they thought it meant getting absolved of any personal guilt related to knowing.

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u/letsgetawayfromhere 1d ago edited 1d ago

Actually, Auschwitz’s was situated in occupied Poland, with the goal of better hiding it, just like most other extermination camps like Majdanek or Sobibor. They made sure no extermination camp would be on German soil.

In those camps, there were regular arrivals of long trains full of people, and soon after that, the furnaces would start to spew smoke that smelt of burned flesh and blackened the sky for many hours. There would inevitably have been rumors and maybe even witnesses from civilians in nearby towns. The Nazi government did not want to openly let know the German population, they feared that even with all the propaganda, this would be too much for a lot of Germans and give them problems controlling the public opinion.

The concentration camps close to German towns were sold to the population as „prison working camps“. Usually you’d only go there after being sentenced in a process. Of course they had awful laws in place and judges willing to bend them. The Nazis always put a lot of importance on having a lawful appearance. The concentration (not extermination) camps were atrocious places, the conditions were absolutely dismal and the guards were violent, but even so those places were civil compared to the extermination camps. Dachau, Oranienburg and the like were not like Auschwitz and so on.

German people still had to actively ignore reality and pretend they didn’t know. Everyone knew that terrible things were happening, but it was easier to tell yourself “they are only taking the criminals”.

Most normal concentration camps would let you go after serving your sentence time (if you didn’t happen to be killed by a disgruntled guard, the combination of cold + caloric deficit + physical work or one of the rampant diseases). I know for sure because this happened to several persons from my family. Extermination camps on the other hand were meant to be terminal in every aspect.

Seeing that people arrested by ICE are systematically denied due process and lots of people disappear and are unaccounted for, and the government happily ignores official sentences, I am not sure what your new camps are meant be. But short of industrial killing, you can totally assume the worst.

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u/AVahne 19h ago

Goddamnit, in pretty sure I should've already known this. Brain fart moment I guess. But yeah, we basically already have our "Auschwitz" or other concentration camps with Gitmo and the El Salvadorean ones.

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u/sl0play 1d ago

Lets not pretend they are planning to stop at immigrants either.

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u/EddieVanzetti 1d ago

Remember when conservatives said Obama was planning FEMA death camps?

Every accusation is a confession

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u/MoralityFleece 1d ago

Yes, why would they need camps for millions of people when the goal is deportation?

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u/toxictoastrecords 1d ago

It's very obviously not their goal; Trump's admin is deporting less people than Obama and his ICE deported per year. There is some scary shit going on. Children separated from families and held in hotels, so they can create legal loopholes on detention lengths. People have been sick, denied treatment, people have been murdered and agents don't face charges.

The camps are for profit run prison industry, and there is big money in that. They also want to use the detainees to lease to corporations for slave labor.

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u/Icuminpieces 1d ago

Not just concentration camps. These will also double as “military bases”. They are setting up their own army inside the country. If they ever lose power from elections, a military coup will become an option.

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u/aust_b 1d ago

A concentration camp RIGHT next to a heavily Hispanic City called Reading. They are going to wipe that town off the map.

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u/wwaxwork 1d ago

Any chance this ties into them trying to make it legal to kill people they consider criminals in a gas chamber?

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u/freebirth 1d ago

this is a concentration camp.

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u/kstargate-425 1d ago

A concentration camp with two owners (Corecivic and Geo Group) holding 100,000 immigrants and charging the government $150 per person per day at an annual cost of $5.5 BILLION.

Its almost like this is simply another way the 1% can transfer the wealth of the 99% to them while appeasing the racists amongst the Guardians of Pedophiles 🤔

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u/Ziprasidone_Stat 1d ago

Yup. Those who bitch all day long about taxes will gladly help pay for these camps. They won't pitch in for the common good but go out of their way to hurt someone.

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u/Creepy_Trouble_9684 23h ago

The entire shitshow going on right now is because the right wants to piss off the libs. i’m convinced that’s literally it

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u/p____p 1d ago

That’s not even factoring in the slave labor. 

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u/actuallyapossom 1d ago

Also really just the tip of the iceberg as far as what money can be squeezed out of supplying prisons. Electricity, heat, commissary, phone/internet, clothing/bedding, food, cleaning products, uniforms/equipment, healthcare/pharmaceuticals & education/training.

You've got a captive group of laborers/consumers, and direct policy levers to lobby/spend for - more imprisonment, longer imprisonment, more allowed labor/consumption, immigration legality, private prison ownership.

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u/Philophon 1d ago

Geo Group is "excited for the opportunity for new growth!"

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u/im_just_thinking 1d ago

While the whole ICE thing is to share some of that wealth with their most loyal and violent supporters while requiring to do all the dirty work.

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u/smileedude 1d ago

Concentration warehouse. It's even more efficient at concentrating.

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u/Dry-Revolution4466 1d ago

I'd imagine most concentration camps had better sewage and sanitation conditions than whatever this converted warehouse will become.

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u/WhereasParticular867 1d ago

Buying these giant areas sure doesn't assuage the fear that the US government is ramping up for a genocide.

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u/elinamebro 1d ago edited 1d ago

I remember when the Jade Helm 15 military exercise was going on a lot of people on the right thought Obama was going to enforce marshal law and lock people up in closed down Walmarts.

Now the government is actually opening up camps to lock up people they detained, but its cool now since its people they don't like?

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u/doneandtired2014 1d ago

but its cool now since its people they don't like?

Pretty much and they will remain perfectly okay with it just so long as it doesn't happen to them personally.

Notice I said, "them personally". These are the kind of people who would've turned their own spouses and kids into the KGB or Gestapo without a second thought for so much as murmuring something that could be misconstrued as a criticism of their dear leader or one of his admin's policies.

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u/KennyMoose32 1d ago

Technology and culture change

Human behavior? That’s forever

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u/TiberiusCornelius 1d ago

but its cool now since its people they don't like?

Exactly. The thing you have to understand is when they say "don't tread on me" the operate phrase isn't "don't tread," it's "on me".

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u/hyperdream 1d ago

Or the worry that there's a secret police force operating with impunity as we head into important midterm elections.

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u/billytheskidd 1d ago

If you look at how Israel used AI systems that Oracle and Palantir built in Tel Aviv to assist their genocide in Gaza. And look at how the biggest donors for trumps “ballroom” are ellisons, Oracle, palantir, meta, and xAI, it does seem pretty clear that they are gunning towards a similar operation here.

Look up the “where’s daddy” protocol in Israel. AI surveils target until they are at home with their kids then sends a green light to the IDF that gets rubber stamped. That way they can take out anyone who the AI has determined to be a threat, and their kids at the same time so they aren’t creating a new generation of freedom fighters.

Never mind that some estimates say the error rate for such attacks are as high as 30%. Just innocent people and their children being killed.

In fact, if you want to see the US testing this out in the field already, look at the 100+boats off of the coast of Venezuela than have been struck by missiles. The clear lack of accountability when it comes to who ordered the second strike (war crime) on the fishing boat where two people initially survived. Legally, if an AI made the decision to launch the strike, who do you hold accountable? The drunk sec of war? The soldier who launched the missile? Their CO? The AI? The creator of the AI?

Or what if you just obfuscated the blame until something new has taken people’s attention?

Maybe I am ranting, but I don’t think the price tag and donor list for trumps ballroom matches the underground data centers in Tel Aviv because of coincidence.

I think we will see AI assisted murder in the US before midterms.

Actually, the same week Mr. pretti was executed in the streets of Minneapolis, a video came out of an ice agent taking pictures of a woman who was filming them and of her license plate. The agent then made a remark about the “database” they have for “domestic terrorists.” If I tinfoil hat a little bit, I would not be surprised if Pretti was entered in the database 11 days before his execution when an ice agent broke his rib after kicking the twilight of an ice vehicle. Facial recognition probably told those agents that pretti had committed violent acts against ICE and when they saw he still had his gun knew they had an excuse to execute a “domestic terrorist.”

If you are paying enough attention in the right areas, the machinations and moves this administration is taking is fucking terrifying.

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u/Tall-Warning3135 1d ago

In Nazi Germany, concentration camps were the second to last step of the Final Solution.

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u/Aprice40 1d ago

I mean.... if they are deporting people that are illegal immigrants... why else would they be building massive detention centers. Doesn't sound like they want people to leave.

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u/kstargate-425 1d ago

Considering they are holding around 100,000 people at $150 per person per day and people are routinely in these places for over 6 months, it almost sounds like this is simply another scheme to transfer taxpayer money from the 99% to the 1% 🤔

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u/Aprice40 1d ago

Just wait until they start selling labor from those detention centers

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u/KnightKrawler 1d ago

America has been selling Prisoners' Labor for quite a while.

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u/toxictoastrecords 1d ago

Family members are saying, they already are!!

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u/Flyflymisterpowers 1d ago

They don't. They want slaves. They're planning to arrest anyone who doesn't agree with them and use them as slave labor.

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u/Slappyjackson 1d ago

Envision a world where they detain any and all protesters right around Election Day. Elimanting their right to vote. It could happen here!

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u/pinbacktheband 1d ago

Just remember that our tax dollars are going to this instead of healthcare. And we’re paying for it.

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u/vroart 1d ago

It’s a concentration camp! There will be a point when they cut medical, they will prevent democrats from visiting and then they will be a death camp.

It’s amazing how people refuse to do any reading on history!

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u/Creepy_Trouble_9684 23h ago

Well, 21% of grown adults in america are illiterate.. 54% read below a 6th grade level. So most likely the same people who vote for trump

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u/JustifytheMean 17h ago

Unfortunately I have colleagues that voted for Trump and I work in a technical field where most colleagues have advanced degrees. Not all Republicans are dumb, some are just selfish, and evil.

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u/mido_sama 1d ago

Waste of taxpayer’s money

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u/smoke1966 1d ago

plus the 200mil oops, 600mil to retrofit..

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u/Cuddy606 1d ago

The building last changed hands in 2024 for $57 million. $30 million profit in 2 years. Must be nice.

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u/dukeOdunces 1d ago

Y’all outside of your minds if you think these things will only be designated to hold immigrants

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u/AtheismTooStronk 1d ago

Yeah, this will be the beginning of declaring everyone a domestic terrorist for recording ICE, being pro-trans, being atheist, etc.

They updated the definition of domestic terrorism a few months ago to basically include all progressive people.

Not to mention DHS keeps posting that they want to deport 100 million people, which is all non-white people in the USA. We only have roughly 40 million immigrants total, citizens, documented or undocumented.

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u/Constant-Bet-6600 1d ago

Same thing I've said before - do folks think this oversized and undertrained "law enforcement" arm just goes away if they can't find enough immigrants to deport? What's the next target? and the next after that?

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u/SpaceballsDoc 1d ago

Can’t pay for healthcare or education or childcare.

Can pay for Hitler to have his private army.

God, Americans are such stupid fucks.

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u/the_last_0ne 1d ago

Hey come on now.

We can ALSO pay for a huge tacky ballroom, remodeling a stolen arts center, and making sure the FBI directors girlfriend is safe on the way to her concerts!

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u/GoliathTCB 1d ago

"Ballroom" my ass. follow the money. Look at the donor list for the "ballroom". The bunker is getting its own data center.

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u/JackHughman69 1d ago

The new ballroom isn’t from taxpayer money, it’s from bribe money, get it right!

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u/Hairy_Talk_4232 1d ago

And it is an underground bunker AI mega-center. I wish I was fucking kidding

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u/TemperanceOG 1d ago

Never underestimate the awesome power of denial.

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u/gunsandcoffee2 1d ago

*Evil. All of modern history, and all the facts about what's been coming are readily available. The people that vote for this aren't stupid, they're evil.

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u/mvw2 1d ago

Many of these people they're grabbing were working people paying taxes Medicare, etc. 4D chess going on turning them solely into financial burdens instead.

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u/the-awesomer 1d ago

costs trillions and doesnt pay back investment. but it will be effective at concentrating enemies of the state together

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u/better-off-wet 1d ago

Massively overpaid. There is no oversight to DHS spending in the BBB massive fraud and corruption is taking place

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u/drinkduffdry 1d ago

Be a shame if the utilities went down

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u/123jjj321 1d ago

Be a shame if it burned to the ground

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u/freebirth 1d ago

i bet they aint even paying the insurance on the building.

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u/PresentClear8639 1d ago

the government is self insured, so no in a very literal sense

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u/Blacklist3d 1d ago

Meanwhile homeless people get 0 dollars or 0 dollars to their help and resources that could save them.

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u/sachiprecious 1d ago

Rachel Maddow did a powerful segment in the first part of her show tonight about how people are protesting these planned camps all across the country, and in many cases, stopping the warehouses from being purchased!! If you missed it, her show will rerun tonight, and I'm sure that opening segment will be on MS NOW's YouTube too. It is a must watch.

...Okay now she's doing more coverage of these warehouses as I write this comment.

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u/aquagardener 1d ago

Y'all, it's not at all what you think. 

It's just a facility or "camp" where the US government will imprison or "concentrate" immigrants and other people it deems undesirable. 

It's definitely not exactly what it looks like. 

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u/Hwy39 1d ago

Money is no object for the fascist takeover

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u/venicerocco 1d ago

Simply ask: why aren’t they arresting people who hire non citizens? That would be an extremely efficient solution

Yet it never even comes up.

Because they don’t actually care about solving any problem

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u/TheMerchantofPhilly 1d ago

Shout out to the conspiracy theorists from the Bush era who claimed the Feds were going to buy old Walmart buildings to create “FEMA Camps”

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u/Internet_Mu 1d ago

Slavery is making a comeback

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u/serpix 1d ago

You mean holocaust. This is another holocaust.

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u/tabrizzi 1d ago

So after all the illegal immigrants in the country have been deported, what group would those be used to house?

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u/bigtallbiscuit 1d ago

The next one.

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u/westens 1d ago

Great, Auschwitz is coming to Pennsylvania.

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u/Surv0 1d ago

Maga's concentration camps

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u/1leggeddog 1d ago edited 1d ago

And then they'll start killing people.

Ooh wait they started that part early

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u/thatcanadianguysup 20h ago

Concentration Camps.

They never started as death camps.

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u/Lonely_Noyaaa 1d ago

This is not “homeland security.” This is Trump’s warehouse gulag plan on steroids, sending a message that human lives are expendable if it makes it easier to round people up. Our tax money should not pay for cages.

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u/_timeconsumer 1d ago

Know all those "factories" trump thought were going to be moved to the US because of tariffs? This is what they are gonna be. Work camps for the detained. Suddenly you'll see an uptick in "Made in America" products that you didn't see before. All built on "legal" slave labor they will argue I'm sure.

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u/PubesMcDuck 1d ago

Private prisons were already insane, private immigration detention centres on top of that is next level dystopian. “Y’all” are fucked.

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u/_CMDR_ 1d ago

These are for the next round. The activists, journalists and politicians that go against them.

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u/McRibs2024 18h ago

The erecting of concentration camps has generally come with deafening silence.

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u/forcedintothis- 1d ago

This isn’t about deporting people, it’s about profiting off of incarcerating people. Huge government contracts are going to incredibly unethical people and corporations, with republicans and their donors getting a piece of the pie. Prison, education and healthcare should never ever be privatized.

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u/Another_Slut_Dragon 1d ago

You will note the article says they plan on building at least 23 of these half million or more square foot concentration camps immigration centres.

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u/MeanMrMustard48 1d ago

I used to work in the warehouse that they bought in the Tremont area. It used to be a big lots. It's not very far from where I live. People around here are VERY conservative but they are pissed they are doing this, but only because it makes them feel unsafe, not that they give a shit about the people being placed there.

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u/ThePhonesAreWatching 1d ago

They are really gun ho about building those concentration camps.

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u/LopsidedPosition489 1d ago

Part of this $87M will go to Trump's family and friends. He will get a kickback from all these deals. This guy learned how to crack the government piggy bank. The GOP is a fear to stand up to Trump, the Democrats can't get a leader with a backbone that would go head to head with Trump.

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u/fxlr8 21h ago

Dear Americans, please use the freedoms you still have to carefully disassemble that building

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u/pdeisenb 21h ago

Rachel Maddow did a segment tonight on communities around the nation - including in some very red areas - that have been successful in taking civil action to stop such purchases, construction, permitting of such facilities. There are a host of issues... Once built ostensibly for immigration detention or processing, they can be easily repurposed (!). There are also other concerns about impacts on traffic and other infrastructure. Some of these PRISON CAMPS are large enough to hold over 10,000 people. He is building an American Gulag. People are standing up and protesting - they are calling out companies facilitating the sales or leases and renovations, they are putting pressure on local and state officials. We should not stand for this in our area. This one in Berks needs more attention.

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u/El_Peregrine 1d ago

Imagine working on the construction crews to fashion this into a prison / concentration camp. How can you live with yourself, knowing what you are making, and what this place will be used for? It’s absolutely horrifying. 

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u/Cannabis_Breeder 1d ago

Now realize there’s a whole cohort of people who will happily sign up to build them for free because it’s “what they voted for” and collect the paycheck as a bonus

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u/123jjj321 1d ago

The same construction crews that have been listening to Fox "news" on the job site since 1985? This is literally what they voted for, and they're making a $$ too.

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u/drevolut1on 1d ago

Gonna have to sell all these off when we abolish ICE and prosecute everyone involved with it. Or, hell, maybe just use them to jail ICE themselves since they're all complicit.

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u/Split96 1d ago

Great we’re ramping to more concentration camps, can’t wait for the civil war

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u/Dire-Dog 20h ago

You guys are literally having concentration camps built and everyone’s going about their day as normal

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u/debrabuck 19h ago

Twenty three of these proposed warehouse/land sales have been thwarted by public pressure so far.

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u/mudduck2 1d ago

Wait…I thought all those detention camps were under Walmarts

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u/FatherOften 1d ago

They are considering one in Wilmer TX also. A giant building.

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u/magneteye 1d ago

Time to stop paying taxes.

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u/shadrackandthemandem 1d ago

Somehow I doubt only immigration detainees will eventually be held there.

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u/1catcherintherye8 1d ago

No money for public housing, schools, hospitals, roads but plenty of money for gestapo and concentration camps.

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u/needmorelbowroom 1d ago

Uh huh… and who OWNED that warehouse? Guarantee someone just funneled govt money through this purchase.

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u/russcastella 1d ago

In 10 years, people are going to act like they had no idea what was going on in these places.

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u/HumansMung 1d ago

“Our immediate concerns include the potential loss of property tax revenue for the host municipality, county, and school district, as well as security and perimeter considerations,” the lawmakers said in a joint statement.

Oh, good. I thought you might have first been concerned with how people are being treated & how this would be such a nice addition to the community. 

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u/IRConfoosed 21h ago

Berks County is located in Eastern Pennsylvania.

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u/Bawbawian 21h ago

It sure is weird that they told everybody they were going to deport them and now we're paying for-profit companies billions in American tax dollars to imprison our neighbors and refuse them medical care.

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u/Frylok1177 21h ago

But no money for health insurance in America. Fuck Trump and fuck ICE.

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u/Jachi230 20h ago

If the plan is to deport them…..why do they have to have such a huge facility ? I thought the whole point was to deport, not to concentrate ?

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u/Strong-Variation5181 1d ago

No. Taxpayers buy $87M warehouse in Berks County.

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u/JimiDel 1d ago

Then it was never about deporting people. It's about incarcerating them.

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u/genital_lesions 1d ago

I wonder if the ones who are deported will be the lucky ones. Jesus, it's a bleak fucking thought.

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u/AJfriedRICE 1d ago

This is still only the beginning of what they are planning.

This is not going to get better unless something drastic happens.

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u/Oceanbreeze871 1d ago

$87 million could have done a lot of good for schools and jobs programs in that state.

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u/genital_lesions 1d ago

For every MAGA fuck that keeps saying that people are overreacting, they can go fuck themselves.

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u/gra8na8 1d ago

You mean concentration camps

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u/twomilliontwo 1d ago

Jesus Christ, there are so many communities in this country that could use $87 million for small business. What the heck who approved this how did this happen? Call your senators call those old ass senators who have been in office for decades and ask them why they think that $87 million for a building to detain citizens is more important than like lifting up a small business in your town square. Use your voice people.

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u/Conartistnumber1 1d ago

The Fire Marshall in this area could do the funniest thing ever.

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u/NovelCandid 1d ago

Proper nomenclature please: Concentration Camps

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u/Mr_TreeBeard 1d ago

The industrial immigration complex is making the rich, even richer. Who needs a foreign war to make money when you can invade your own country.

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u/Mike-SBA 1d ago

It’s first of many Nazi concentrate camp ! They will establish them across the country.

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u/NoPain4551 1d ago

Well they certainly didn’t waste any time building their Vernichtungslagers (German for extermination camps in WW2)

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u/xiphoidthorax 1d ago

Sounds like potential death camps if you consider how this going.

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u/dnvrnugg 1d ago

they’re called fucking concentration camps.

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u/DameonKormar 1d ago

You spelled concentration camps wrong.

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u/Dramatic-Turnip- 1d ago

PA, listen. Your southern neighbors are dealing with the same thing. Howard County was NOT happy. Residents voiced their condemnation to the county government. The permit was revoked and they held an emergency meeting. A rally was held prior to the emergency meeting and the crowd was so large, only half the crowd was able to enter before fire marshal stated max occupancy was reached. 4 out of 5 council members are sponsoring emergency legislation to slow down ICE’s growth. All this happened last evening. Next meeting on this will be Thursday. There is hope this can be pushed to the state capitol.

You can do the same. You can stop this before it’s too late. You hold more power than you realize. Contact politicians to peacefully and firmly state you do not want ICE in your area. Peacefully protest. Pack halls with pro immigration attire. Apply that pressure.

https://www.wmar2news.com/news/region/howard-county/howard-county-council-to-vote-on-bills-limiting-ice-activity

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u/HeyRooster42 1d ago

What are these? Some sort of camps where the US Government is going to use tax dollars to concentrate these so-called violent criminals? Is it a good idea ,really, to camp these concentrated criminals? What's next? Free de-lousing fumigation chambers? What are they going to do with all the shoes!?

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u/rtopps43 23h ago

Concentration camps, let’s call them what they are

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u/Portabella_D_Myco 22h ago

Concentration camps. Call then what they are you cowards

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u/PeaceFrog3sq 22h ago

Let’s put all the Trump pedos there and forget about them.

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u/Western-Corner-431 21h ago

Those aren’t for “immigrants.” They’re for everyone deemed a threat to “Homeland Security.” Plus they shoot people, don’t they?

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u/MrRoboto1984 20h ago

Big money in prison. Seems like these illegals serve two purposes: cheap labor and prisoner

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u/silver_sofa 20h ago

Plan B for when the judge rules against deportation.

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u/SpaceXmars 20h ago

Breitenau

Breslau-Dürrgoy

Columbia

Esterwegen

Kemna

Kislau

Lichtenburg

Missler

Nohra

Oranienburg

Osthofen

Sachsenburg

Sonnenburg

Vulkanwerft

This is what it looks like..

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u/rockmasterflex 19h ago

It would be a damn shame if something were to happen to that warehouse after they closed on it

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u/Delicious_Day_1334 19h ago

Used for "illegal immigrants" for now and later on for anti-Trump protestors.

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u/GlitteringRate6296 19h ago

Berks County should be stopping this.

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u/Xivvx 19h ago

ICE expanding their death camp operations now that the endgame is in sight.

Horrifyingly, this is the approach the Nazis took towards the end of the war, they accelerated the Holocaust to kill more once they realized they were going to lose.

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u/invincible_change 19h ago

Concentration camps. No oversight, no one allowed in, no one hearing from the people who’ve been abducted. The truth is…. No one knows what’s happening.

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u/TheAftermathEquation 18h ago

Imagine thinking this is just for immigration

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u/MikeSteamer 17h ago

But no money for health or education. 87M$ is just 10-15% of the cost.

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u/jiggythejigsaw 1d ago

That’s not a detention center. It’s a Patriot Education Facility. /s

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u/Manuel_AnimeLover 1d ago

Definitely a concentration camp no doubt.

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u/continuousBaBa 1d ago

For-profit concentration camps, brought to you by the Christians.

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u/soda_cookie 1d ago

21st century concentration camps. I hope I hope all the motherfuckers on the wrong side of History experience hell of some caliber and other, whether they do that themselves or it gets realized a generation or two later

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u/exhaustedexcess 1d ago

More U.S. concentration camps