"The racial profiling, cruelty, and mass roundups will continue, and private prison corporations like CoreCivic and Geo Group, alongside giants of surveillance infrastructure like Palantir, will collectively make billions from DHS spending."
#trump #concentrationcamps #fascism #ethniccleansing #ice
https://theintercept.com/2026/02/17/warehouses-immigration-detention-camp-prisons-immigrants/
I want to start with a short look at a current story from Reuters, because I think it exemplifies the way the Trump regime's brazen lawlessness and criminality, dovetails perfectly with the larger fascist project to transform America into both a white ethnostate, and a fascist dictatorship; under Swine Emperor Trump, and of course his odious shadow chancellor, Stephen Miller. As the title of the piece indicates, judges across the US have ruled over 4,000 times that ICE is illegally detaining migrants and yet the regime continues to openly break the law to do so, because they wish legal precedent agreed with their "novel" interpretation of the law; it doesn't.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/courts-have-ruled-4400-times-that-ice-jailed-people-illegally-it-hasnt-stopped-2026-02-14/ (archived: https://archive.ph/uNDJX )
Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
"Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found.
The decisions amount to a sweeping legal rebuke of Trump’s immigration crackdown. Yet the administration has continued jailing people indefinitely even after courts ruled the policy was illegal.
"It is appalling that the Government insists that this Court should redefine or completely disregard the current law as it is clearly written," U.S. District Judge Thomas Johnston of West Virginia, an appointee of President George W. Bush, wrote last week, ordering the release of a Venezuelan detainee in the state.
Most of the rulings center on the Trump administration’s departure from a nearly three-decade-old interpretation of federal law that immigrants already living in the United States could be released on bond while they pursue their cases in immigration court."
The basic issue here is that the Trump regime and its Gestapo, want to hold migrants they've kidnapped in concentration camps without bail, while they wait for their immigration court dates. The law however, specifically the foundational legal principle of habeas corpus, disagrees. In response, the regime is simply ignoring the law and detaining everyone they kidnap even after they've received a court date, unless directly ordered by a judge to release a specific individual. This has resulted in the filing of more than 20,200 federal lawsuits (almost all of which the government *will* ultimately lose because the law doesn't work the way Stephen Miller wishes it did) to free kidnapped immigrants being held in US concentration camps.
Why? Well as the article notes, not everyone can afford or otherwise has an opportunity to file a habeas corpus petition in court, nor are there enough lawyers or judges to hear all these cases in a timely manner, leading to long delays; all while people suffer inside a Gestapo concentration camp intentionally designed to torture its kidnapped and illegally confined prisoners. Indeed, this massive backlog of cases means that even after a judge orders the ICE Gestapo to release a kidnapped person, the Trumpenreich routinely fails to release those people quickly.
"Using court dockets, Reuters found more than 700 Justice Department attorneys representing the government in immigration cases. Five of the attorneys each appeared on the dockets of more than 1,000 habeas cases.
Partly as a result of that legal logjam, judges have found that the government has left people locked up even after judges ordered their release.
In a court order, issued last month in Minnesota, Schiltz said the government had violated 96 orders in 76 cases. The U.S. Attorney there, Daniel Rosen, said in a filing two days later that the cases had created an "enormous burden" for government attorneys."
Of course, one could note as a judge in another recent case did, that this "enormous burden" for government attorneys was a self-made problem for the Trump regime; not only because of the sheer number of people the Gestapo has disappeared from our streets who have a legal right to bail while they await an immigration hearing, but also because Trump's lawyers vigorously contest every single habeas corpus petition filed against the government to release concentration camp prisoners.
The truth however, as we know from our study of ICE's concentration camp conditions, is that the Trumpenreich is not ignoring court orders or dragging its feet in response to them because government lawyers are overworked, nor even as a petulant temper tantrum to appease a racist base. There is a method, behind this malevolent cruelty.
This is all part of Stephen Miller's larger plan to torture migrants in concentration camps until they agree to give up their claims to stay in America and self deport. You can't torture people into surrendering their own legal rights, if you do not in fact "have the body." And that's why Trump's Gestapo doesn't care how many times a judge says they broke the law.
#ICE #Fascism #Trump #Courts #ConcentrationCamps #StephenMiller
"Who watches the Watchmen?" - Alan Moore
(This is our thread to discuss the Trump regime's blatant disregard for legal rulings or judicial orders, weaponization of the Justice Department to accomplish its fascist ends, and our 6-3 fascist high Supreme Court's efforts to sanctify the Trumenreich's criminality after the fact.
As you might expect, there's going to be a lot of stories to catch up on in this section over the next little while after I've been away for just under six months. Again, just bear with me. I will run out of open tabs eventually and we'll be back to "normal" current news in the Hellworld.)
I want to start with a short look at a current story from Reuters, because I think it exemplifies the way the Trump regime's brazen lawlessness and criminality, dovetails perfectly with the larger fascist project to transform America into both a white ethnostate, and a fascist dictatorship; under Swine Emperor Trump, and of course his odious shadow chancellor, Stephen Miller. As the title of the piece indicates, judges across the US have ruled over 4,000 times that ICE is illegally detaining migrants and yet the regime continues to openly break the law to do so, because they wish legal precedent agreed with their "novel" interpretation of the law; it doesn't.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/courts-have-ruled-4400-times-that-ice-jailed-people-illegally-it-hasnt-stopped-2026-02-14/ (archived: https://archive.ph/uNDJX )
Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
"Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found.
The decisions amount to a sweeping legal rebuke of Trump’s immigration crackdown. Yet the administration has continued jailing people indefinitely even after courts ruled the policy was illegal.
"It is appalling that the Government insists that this Court should redefine or completely disregard the current law as it is clearly written," U.S. District Judge Thomas Johnston of West Virginia, an appointee of President George W. Bush, wrote last week, ordering the release of a Venezuelan detainee in the state.
Most of the rulings center on the Trump administration’s departure from a nearly three-decade-old interpretation of federal law that immigrants already living in the United States could be released on bond while they pursue their cases in immigration court."
The basic issue here is that the Trump regime and its Gestapo, want to hold migrants they've kidnapped in concentration camps without bail, while they wait for their immigration court dates. The law however, specifically the foundational legal principle of habeas corpus, disagrees. In response, the regime is simply ignoring the law and detaining everyone they kidnap even after they've received a court date, unless directly ordered by a judge to release a specific individual. This has resulted in the filing of more than 20,200 federal lawsuits (almost all of which the government *will* ultimately lose because the law doesn't work the way Stephen Miller wishes it did) to free kidnapped immigrants being held in US concentration camps.
Why? Well as the article notes, not everyone can afford or otherwise has an opportunity to file a habeas corpus petition in court, nor are there enough lawyers or judges to hear all these cases in a timely manner, leading to long delays; all while people suffer inside a Gestapo concentration camp intentionally designed to torture its kidnapped and illegally confined prisoners. Indeed, this massive backlog of cases means that even after a judge orders the ICE Gestapo to release a kidnapped person, the Trumpenreich routinely fails to release those people quickly.
"Using court dockets, Reuters found more than 700 Justice Department attorneys representing the government in immigration cases. Five of the attorneys each appeared on the dockets of more than 1,000 habeas cases.
Partly as a result of that legal logjam, judges have found that the government has left people locked up even after judges ordered their release.
In a court order, issued last month in Minnesota, Schiltz said the government had violated 96 orders in 76 cases. The U.S. Attorney there, Daniel Rosen, said in a filing two days later that the cases had created an "enormous burden" for government attorneys."
Of course, one could note as a judge in another recent case did, that this "enormous burden" for government attorneys was a self-made problem for the Trump regime; not only because of the sheer number of people the Gestapo has disappeared from our streets who have a legal right to bail while they await an immigration hearing, but also because Trump's lawyers vigorously contest every single habeas corpus petition filed against the government to release concentration camp prisoners.
The truth however, as we know from our study of ICE's concentration camp conditions, is that the Trumpenreich is not ignoring court orders or dragging its feet in response to them because government lawyers are overworked, nor even as a petulant temper tantrum to appease a racist base. There is a method, behind this malevolent cruelty.
This is all part of Stephen Miller's larger plan to torture migrants in concentration camps until they agree to give up their claims to stay in America and self deport. You can't torture people into surrendering their own legal rights, if you do not in fact "have the body." And that's why Trump's Gestapo doesn't care how many times a judge says they broke the law.
#ICE #Fascism #Trump #Courts #ConcentrationCamps #StephenMiller
While Kristi Noem's Department of Homeland Security and the ICE Gestapo are certainly working hard to keep the horrifying conditions inside our concentration camps a secret, the reality is that more evidence supporting the whistleblowers accounts above keeps emerging every day. Take for example this February 10th Guardian piece about an Irish man held for five months in a Texas concentration camp; a story that likely held the national media's interest only because the kidnapped man was white, but is more important to us here because his testimony matches closely enough with the reports of abuses that amounted to intentional torture we've already seen, to suggest this is a systemic atrocity.
Irish man held in ICE detention says he fears for his life and asks Ireland for help
"An Irish man who has been held by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement for five months despite having a valid work permit and no criminal record says he fears for his life and has appealed for help from Ireland’s government.
Seamus Culleton said conditions at his detention centre in Texas were akin to “torture” and that the atmosphere was volatile. “I’m not in fear of the other inmates. I’m afraid of the staff. They’re capable of anything.”
Speaking from the El Paso facility to Ireland’s RTÉ radio, Culleton implored the taoiseach, Micheál Martin, to raise his case with Donald Trump when he visits the White House next month for St Patrick’s Day celebrations."
First of all, virtually no other outlet talking about this right now has included Culleton's quote about not being afraid of other camp inmates, but being terrified of the DHS/ICE monsters running the camp, who he feels are capable of anything - meaning violence. If you read the rest of the story however, you'll discover that Culleton, who is married to an American citizen and had a waiver to work (and thus reside) in the country, was snatched up right before the final hearing that would have resulted in him obtaining a full green card. Which mirrors other evidence and testimony we've seen that strongly implies this is quite intentional - DHS is kidnapping people and torturing them to try and force a deportation (self or otherwise) before they can obtain papers that secure their residency in America.
Furthermore, Cullenton goes on to describe conditions at the El Paso concentration camp, that directly mirror the testimony of the whistleblower who worked at the Baltimore concentration camp I shared with you in the post above this one.
"Culleton told RTÉ he had been locked in the same room with 71 other detainees in squalid conditions and with insufficient food and negligible time outside for fresh air, sunshine or exercise.
“You don’t know what’s going to happen on a day-to-day basis. You don’t know if there’s going to be riots, you don’t know what’s going to happen. It’s a nightmare down here.” Showers and toilets were “filthy” and daily meals were child-sized, he said. “So everybody is hungry.”
So that's again massive overcrowding, dangerously unhygienic conditions, intentional starvation, and warehousing people in cages for long periods of time; all confirmed. Sounds like a concentration camp to me; how about you?
#ICE #ConcentrationCamps #DHS #Gestapo #Trump #Fascism #EthnicCleansing #ElPaso #SeamusCulleton #Genocide #MigrantCarceralComplex #MigrantRights #Nazis
So I'm up late, watching the news on YouTube when I stumble across this short (14m) Majority Report Segment, about an anonymized ICE employee, testifying to a local news station about the horrifying and inhumane conditions inside a concentration camp located in the Baltimore George H. Fallon federal building. This "detention center" recently made national news when a whistleblower leaked video showing dozens of migrants crammed inside a single cell like sardines in conditions that well, resembled a concentration camp more than even a jail.
Look, I'm not going to lie to you; some of the testimony provided is hard to hear, but this is another story that I think probably has more impact when you hear a real, actual person who was in position to know, talk about the dehumanizing and dangerous conditions inside ICE concentration camps - which as we're learning, appear to be both intentional and systemic in nature, and not the result of one or two bad facilities.
As an aside, shoutout to the WUSA 9 news guys here for going super old school on this high-quality journalism. They reported that the ex-ICE employee couldn't be identified because they'd signed an NDA (uh, should we be making people who work for the migrant carceral complex sign NDAs? Is there any innocent reason for that practice?) but confirmed that they did work at the Baltimore facility in question through employment records, so this is about as credible as an anonymous whistleblower interview can possibly be. If only every news organization still cared this much about doing the job right.
ICE Worker Leaks Concentration Camp Ghoulish Conditions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8fWTFnmH0w
As I mentioned above, the leaker's account of the conditions inside the Baltimore concentration camp are difficult to hear, especially considering the fact that he's clearly still an extremely reactionary immigration hardliner himself. This isn't exactly a person sympathetic to the migrants he was paid to help confine. In very broad strokes the former ICE employee describes habitual and horrific overcrowding, people forced to lay in feces and urine, women forced to wear diapers due to lack of sanitary supplies, as well as physical and psychological abuse of detainees. Furthermore, much of this testimony was supported by headcount sheets, and screenshots from group chats with co-workers. This nightmare is real.
I think perhaps the most important part of the leakers testimony however, is their articulation of the way running the concentration camps saw the ICE employees themselves to begin to see the confined migrants as less than human, even literal animals. As any historian worth her salt will tell you, this dehumanization is both an ever-present byproduct of locking people up en masse in concentration camps for the crime of their birth, and a necessary precondition for pogroms, genocides, and other mass extermination programs under reactionary fascist governments.
After the segment featuring the ICE concentration camp whistleblower, the video then opens into a broader discussion between Sam Seder and Emma Vigeland about the growing evidence that all of this torture and mistreatment is intentional, to force kidnapped migrants to give up their legal attempts to stay in the country "voluntarily." And finally our hosts close by noting that the secrecy behind all of this dehumanization, torture, and abuse is rooted in the way DHS and ICE function as part of the specially empowered national security state that grew out of US political class reaction to 9/11 and the War on Terror.
The chickens of racialized American imperial adventurism have indeed, come home to roost.
#ICE #Fascism #TMR #DHS #ConcentrationCamps #Baltimore #FallonBuilding #EthnicCleansing #PoliceState #WhiteSupremacy
So I'm up late, watching the news on YouTube when I stumble across this short (14m) Majority Report Segment, about an anonymized ICE employee, testifying to a local news station about the horrifying and inhumane conditions inside a concentration camp located in the Baltimore George H. Fallon federal building. This "detention center" recently made national news when a whistleblower leaked video showing dozens of migrants crammed inside a single cell like sardines in conditions that well, resembled a concentration camp more than even a jail.
Look, I'm not going to lie to you; some of the testimony provided is hard to hear, but this is another story that I think probably has more impact when you hear a real, actual person who was in position to know, talk about the dehumanizing and dangerous conditions inside ICE concentration camps - which as we're learning, appear to be both intentional and systemic in nature, and not the result of one or two bad facilities.
As an aside, shoutout to the WUSA 9 news guys here for going super old school on this high-quality journalism. They reported that the ex-ICE employee couldn't be identified because they'd signed an NDA (uh, should we be making people who work for the migrant carceral complex sign NDAs? Is there any innocent reason for that practice?) but confirmed that they did work at the Baltimore facility in question through employment records, so this is about as credible as an anonymous whistleblower interview can possibly be. If only every news organization still cared this much about doing the job right.
ICE Worker Leaks Concentration Camp Ghoulish Conditions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8fWTFnmH0w
As I mentioned above, the leaker's account of the conditions inside the Baltimore concentration camp are difficult to hear, especially considering the fact that he's clearly still an extremely reactionary immigration hardliner himself. This isn't exactly a person sympathetic to the migrants he was paid to help confine. In very broad strokes the former ICE employee describes habitual and horrific overcrowding, people forced to lay in feces and urine, women forced to wear diapers due to lack of sanitary supplies, as well as physical and psychological abuse of detainees. Furthermore, much of this testimony was supported by headcount sheets, and screenshots from group chats with co-workers. This nightmare is real.
I think perhaps the most important part of the leakers testimony however, is their articulation of the way running the concentration camps saw the ICE employees themselves to begin to see the confined migrants as less than human, even literal animals. As any historian worth her salt will tell you, this dehumanization is both an ever-present byproduct of locking people up en masse in concentration camps for the crime of their birth, and a necessary precondition for pogroms, genocides, and other mass extermination programs under reactionary fascist governments.
After the segment featuring the ICE concentration camp whistleblower, the video then opens into a broader discussion between Sam Seder and Emma Vigeland about the growing evidence that all of this torture and mistreatment is intentional, to force kidnapped migrants to give up their legal attempts to stay in the country "voluntarily." And finally our hosts close by noting that the secrecy behind all of this dehumanization, torture, and abuse is rooted in the way DHS and ICE function as part of the specially empowered national security state that grew out of US political class reaction to 9/11 and the War on Terror.
The chickens of racialized American imperial adventurism have indeed, come home to roost.
#ICE #Fascism #TMR #DHS #ConcentrationCamps #Baltimore #FallonBuilding #EthnicCleansing #PoliceState #WhiteSupremacy
While Kristi Noem's Department of Homeland Security and the ICE Gestapo are certainly working hard to keep the horrifying conditions inside our concentration camps a secret, the reality is that more evidence supporting the whistleblowers accounts above keeps emerging every day. Take for example this February 10th Guardian piece about an Irish man held for five months in a Texas concentration camp; a story that likely held the national media's interest only because the kidnapped man was white, but is more important to us here because his testimony matches closely enough with the reports of abuses that amounted to intentional torture we've already seen, to suggest this is a systemic atrocity.
Irish man held in ICE detention says he fears for his life and asks Ireland for help
"An Irish man who has been held by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement for five months despite having a valid work permit and no criminal record says he fears for his life and has appealed for help from Ireland’s government.
Seamus Culleton said conditions at his detention centre in Texas were akin to “torture” and that the atmosphere was volatile. “I’m not in fear of the other inmates. I’m afraid of the staff. They’re capable of anything.”
Speaking from the El Paso facility to Ireland’s RTÉ radio, Culleton implored the taoiseach, Micheál Martin, to raise his case with Donald Trump when he visits the White House next month for St Patrick’s Day celebrations."
First of all, virtually no other outlet talking about this right now has included Culleton's quote about not being afraid of other camp inmates, but being terrified of the DHS/ICE monsters running the camp, who he feels are capable of anything - meaning violence. If you read the rest of the story however, you'll discover that Culleton, who is married to an American citizen and had a waiver to work (and thus reside) in the country, was snatched up right before the final hearing that would have resulted in him obtaining a full green card. Which mirrors other evidence and testimony we've seen that strongly implies this is quite intentional - DHS is kidnapping people and torturing them to try and force a deportation (self or otherwise) before they can obtain papers that secure their residency in America.
Furthermore, Cullenton goes on to describe conditions at the El Paso concentration camp, that directly mirror the testimony of the whistleblower who worked at the Baltimore concentration camp I shared with you in the post above this one.
"Culleton told RTÉ he had been locked in the same room with 71 other detainees in squalid conditions and with insufficient food and negligible time outside for fresh air, sunshine or exercise.
“You don’t know what’s going to happen on a day-to-day basis. You don’t know if there’s going to be riots, you don’t know what’s going to happen. It’s a nightmare down here.” Showers and toilets were “filthy” and daily meals were child-sized, he said. “So everybody is hungry.”
So that's again massive overcrowding, dangerously unhygienic conditions, intentional starvation, and warehousing people in cages for long periods of time; all confirmed. Sounds like a concentration camp to me; how about you?
#ICE #ConcentrationCamps #DHS #Gestapo #Trump #Fascism #EthnicCleansing #ElPaso #SeamusCulleton #Genocide #MigrantCarceralComplex #MigrantRights #Nazis
