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AnarchoNinaAnalyzes
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@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes@social.treehouse.systems  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

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.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/10/irish-man-ice-detention-fears-life-ireland-help-seamus-culleton

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

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Irish man held in ICE detention says he fears for his life and asks Ireland for help

Seamus Culleton describes conditions as ‘torture’ as he pleads with taoiseach to raise his case with Donald Trump
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AnarchoNinaAnalyzes
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@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes@social.treehouse.systems  ·  activity timestamp last week

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

AnarchoNinaAnalyzes
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@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes@social.treehouse.systems replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

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.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/10/irish-man-ice-detention-fears-life-ireland-help-seamus-culleton

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

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Irish man held in ICE detention says he fears for his life and asks Ireland for help

Seamus Culleton describes conditions as ‘torture’ as he pleads with taoiseach to raise his case with Donald Trump
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