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@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes@social.treehouse.systems · 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

@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes@social.treehouse.systems replied · 2 weeks ago

I don't think this horrifying January 20th article on Popular Information broke into the mainstream media much at the time, but given the news that the Trump regime is turbocharging its efforts to build concentration camps out of warehouses and military bases all around the country, it probably should have.

In the simplest possible terms, ICE is now denying medical coverage to thousands of detainees, and regardless of the reasons why that is happening (more below) this depraved indifference to human life inside what we have already established are concentration camps, is eerily reminiscent of the process that lead the actual Nazi Reich in Germany to conduct the Holocaust.

ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment

"Under the law, ICE is required to provide necessary medical care for this population.

While ICE employs some of its own medical staff, it often uses third-party providers. ICE’s Buffalo Federal Detention Facility, for example, houses over 500 detainees and has no doctor or dentist on staff.

ICE, however, has not paid any third-party providers for medical care for detainees since October 3, 2025. Last week, ICE posted a notice on an obscure government website announcing it will not begin processing such claims until at least April 30, 2026. Until then, medical providers are instructed “to hold all claims submissions.”

ICE’s failure to pay its bills for months has caused some medical providers to deny services to ICE detainees, an administration source, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press, told Popular Information. In other cases, detainees have allegedly been denied essential medical care by ICE."

If you read the entire story, you'll discover that this situation likely arose out of another manufactured outrage promoted by fascists both inside and outside the GOP; specifically the idea that having Veteran Affairs process medical services claims for ICE (which ICE paid them for in full) amounted to "robbing veterans to pay off" migrants. That is however not exculpatory for either ICE or the larger Trump administration, because deciding to stuff people into concentration camps and then refusing to provide them necessary, in some cases even life-saving medical care, because of a manufactured political scandal, is still deciding to lock people in concentration camps and let them fucking die.

To paraphrase Toni Morrison, the reason the Nazis called what we now know as the Holocaust, the "final solution" is because they tried a bunch of other things before that to solve the "problem" of Jewish people existing inside Nazi-controlled territory. One of those "solutions" was absolutely purposely making life in the concentration and labor camps impossible to sustain - in other words, murdering Jewish people and other folks inside the camps through intentional neglect. I'm pretty sure it's not any sort of accident at all, that Trump, Miller, Noem and other assorted literal fucking white supremacist nazis in this administration and the larger Homeland Security aparatus, are copying from Hitler and Himmler's most evil playbook.

#Fascism #ConcentrationCamps #ICE #Murder #Trump #GOP #KristiNoem #StephenMiller #FinalSolution #MurderByNeglect

ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment

ICE halted payments in October, and the situation will persist for at least several more months

AnarchoNinaAnalyzes

@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes@social.treehouse.systems replied · 2 weeks ago

Yeah, I did not stutter. While I was away, news emerged that the US government is spending potentially billions of dollars to buy up warehouses all around the country and transform them into concentration camps.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-29/us-spends-hundreds-of-millions-on-warehouses-for-ice-detention-centers

ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US

"The 23 proposed sites would range in size from 500 to 9,500 beds. If completed as planned, the larger facilities would be some of the biggest detention centers of any kind in the country. For example, the 9,500-bed facility ICE is planning for Hutchins, Texas, could fit the entire average daily jail population of Dallas County with thousands of beds to spare.

In recent weeks the federal government has given tours of potential sites in more than 20 cities to contractors and shared with them the designs, including preferred layouts, for at least 15 of the sites, according to people familiar with the confidential process. Contractors — the ones who will turn these warehouses into jails — were required to send in their proposals for the first sites this week, starting with Hagerstown, according to those sources.

To reach its goal of deporting 1 million people a year, the Trump administration has said it needs more than 100,000 detention beds. Currently, there are more than 73,000 people in ICE custody, a record. The new sites could give the agency an additional 76,500 beds, according to documents shared with Bloomberg News. To fill all of them, the administration would have to expand immigration arrests beyond what it is already doing, said Emma Winger, deputy legal director at the American Immigration Council.

“To reach these kinds of numbers, they’d need to go out into the communities and find people who’ve been living their lives and been here a long time,” Winger said. “They’d have to dramatically increase their presence in communities across the country.”

It's unfortunate that I don't have more time to go over this article with you. It's pretty rare that I find myself admiring a piece published in Bloomberg, but this is actually a really in-depth look at the way Trump's mass deportation agenda can't be established without what amounts to a nation-wide network of concentration camps, and those camps are threatening and harmful to both migrants and American citizens, regardless of their political affiliation.

Like most mainstream corporate outlets covering the Trump regime's ethnic cleansing program however, they're still far too focused on this merely being a waste of astronomical amounts of taxpayer money. It certainly is, but again, I think the fact that they're building concentration camps out of former online retail distribution warehouses as part of an ethnonationalist project to reshape America according to Stephen Miller and Trump's whims would be a major crisis and a crime against humanity even if they were doing it for free. Maybe that's just me.

What Bloomberg does provide the space to stress however, is that you don't build this many concentration camps unless you're planning to lock up a lot more people than the Gestpo is currently detaining; which in turn means that far from backing down in Minneapolis, the Trump regime is clearly headed towards a lot more operations just like it. Where the mainstream corporate media always falls down however, is in forgetting that concentration camps for migrants, can just as easily be concentration camps for anyone the Trump regime wants to dispose of for any reason at all. One simple review of Trump's National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7) makes it pretty clear that Trump and his Gestapo have spaces in camps lined up for "terrorists" who oppose his absolute rule over a fascist America.

#Fascism #Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #ConcentrationCamps #DHS #Warehouses #NSPM7 #EthnicCleansing #Gestapo #WhiteNationalism

AnarchoNinaAnalyzes

@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes@social.treehouse.systems replied · 2 weeks ago

"But wait," I hear you saying. "Even with 23 new concentration camps, and 150,000 beds, that's still not enough capacity to do either Trump's ethnic cleansing operation, or the regime's plan to start locking up its political opponents." That may be so, but would if surprise you to learn that the Trump administration is also working with the Navy to create at least six more tent city style concentration camps, and the capacity to literally sprout new ones anywhere they like?

https://www.commondreams.org/news/military-contract-concentration-camps

US Military Helping Trump to Build Massive Network of ‘Concentration Camps,’ Navy Contract Reveals

“This $45 billion increase, published just weeks ago, converts the US into a ‘geographic region’ for expeditionary military-style detention,” he wrote. “It signals a massive, long-term escalation in the government’s capacity to pay for detention and deportation logistics. In the world of federal contracting, it is the difference between a temporary surge and a permanent infrastructure.”

He says the use of the military funding mechanism is meant to disburse funds quickly, without the typical bidding war among contractors, which would typically create a period of public scrutiny. Using the Navy contract means that new projects can be created with “task orders,” which can be turned around almost immediately, when “specific dates and locations are identified” by DHS.

“It means the infrastructure is currently a ‘ghost’ network that can be materialized anywhere in the US the moment a site is picked,” Manríquez wrote.

Amid its push to deport 1 million people each year, the White House has said it needs to dramatically increase the scale of its detention apparatus to add more beds for those who are arrested. But Manríquez said documents suggest “this isn’t just about bed space; it’s about the rapid deployment of self-contained cities.”

So much of the good dirt in this article stems from the reporting of Pablo Manríquez from Migrant Insider, who in turn is working from actual government contract information; so this is definitely real. As the report notes, the Navy currently has about 55B dollars set aside to fund this nightmare, so in addition to the six 10K person-sized, tent city concertation camps expected to be built in Louisiana, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Utah, and Kansas, they're also creating the infrastructure and capacity to build many more such camps anywhere the federal government wants to, provided they own the land.

If you want to know what a Trump regime program to create a gulag complex for migrants, trans people, and anyone left of Otto von Bismarck, might look like - this is pretty much what it would look like.

#Fascism #ConcentrationCamps #ICE #DHS #USNavy #Trump #EthnicCleansing #Gestapo #WhiteNationalism #Gulags

Common Dreams

US Military Helping Trump to Build Massive Network of ‘Concentration Camps,’ Navy Contract Reveals | Common Dreams

Military Helping Trump to Build Massive Network of 'Concentration Camps,' Navy Contract Reveals

AnarchoNinaAnalyzes

@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes@social.treehouse.systems replied · 2 weeks ago

Naturally, if you're going to start sprouting up concentration camps all over the country, while mass arresting more migrants and your political opponents to fill them, you're going to need Gestapo forces and administrators all over the United States of America too; and the buildings to house them. So I guess you won't be shocked to learn that the Trump administration, DHS, and ICE are currently going about acquiring space all over the country to do just that, right?

https://www.commondreams.org/news/ice-dhs-expansion-plans

Amid Secretive Expansion, Leaked Docs Reveal Locations of New ICE Facilities Nationwide

"Overall, Wired reported on Tuesday, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS)—which includes Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)—has been aggressively expanding its footprint across the country, with “more than 150 leases and office expansions” that “have or would place new facilities in nearly every state, many of them in or just outside of the country’s largest metropolitan areas.”

Quite frankly, I could have put this store in our "DHS is doing ethnic cleansing" thread, because as the article goes on to note, these new ICE facilities are being embedded directly in major metropolitan areas, and next to locations the Gestapo is already targeting - like schools, mosques, and hospitals or childcare facilities. As the author of the original Wired report noted:

“The leasing plans give a clear picture of where ICE is going next in the US: Everywhere,” the report concluded."

I chose to put it here in the concentration camp thread however, because I think when taken together with ICE's plans to build a nation-wide gulag system for migrants and dissenters they call "terrorists," a very clear picture of how exactly the Trumpenreich fascist dictatorship will be created is emerging. A while back I wrote an article on NIDC predicting that the massive DHS and ICE funding in Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill would facilitate the transformation of those agencies from Trump's Gestapo, into his Schutzstaffel, or SS because the militarization of these forces would allow the Swine Emperor to effectively occupy the United States militarily under a semi-permanent state of martial law.

(You can find that article here, if you care: https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/07/28/a-schutzstaffel-of-his-own/ )

Taken together, this massive influx of funding to build concentration camps all around the country, combined with ICE's intention to embed itself directly in our urban areas nationwide, sure do look an awful lot like a permanent fascist military occupation of America to me.

#ICE #DHS #Gestapo #MartialLaw #Trump #PorkReich #Schutzstaffel #MilitaryOccupation #OccupiedAmerica #GOP #USPol

Nina Illingworth Dot Com | "When the revolution is for everyone, everyone will be for the revolution"

A Schutzstaffel of His Own

Although it didn't register much in American corporate media, the budget bill Republicans just passed transforms ICE from Trump's Gestapo, into the Regime's SS.

Common Dreams

Amid Secretive Expansion, Leaked Docs Reveal Locations of New ICE Facilities Nationwide | Common Dreams

Leaked documents reveal aggressive expansion plans for ICE in the US, targeting sensitive locations. Immigrants in detention centers report disturbing conditions.

AnarchoNinaAnalyzes

@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes@social.treehouse.systems replied · 2 weeks ago

In the time I was away, more evidence has emerged about the widespread, if not ubiquitous abuses and neglect going on inside ICE's concentration camps; particularly as it pertains to DHS's intentionally barbaric treatment of migrant children. While the following selection is by no means exhaustive, I'd like to share a short (15 minutes) video from The Humanist Report that talks about this systemic and intentional neglect of migrants and in particular migrant children; then I'll share two articles Mike used in making this video you can read to go deeper on the subject if you like.

Kids in ICE Concentration Camp “Distraught” and “Horribly Sick” Due to Inhumane Conditions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTZVBoO3vXw

Although I strongly advise you to just watch the video, host Mike Figueredo touches on three major topics. First, glaring evidence that the neglect is systemic and intentional; detainees are held in squalid conditions, illnesses and viruses (including measles) are spreading in the camps, access to food and water are intentionally restricted to levels that compromise the health of kidnapped migrants, and necessarily medical care is routinely denied. Figueredo then explores what this looks like in real time by examining the horrifying physical and psychological toll being foisted on literal children in the Dilley, Texas ICE concentration camp. Finally our host makes it clear that by DHS and ICE's own admissions to caged migrants, they are intentionally torturing migrant children to try and force their parents seeking asylum or other legal means of staying in the country, to self deport. To put it bluntly, purposely starving people, serving children maggot-infested food, and making literal toddlers dangerously sick without providing medical care is pretty much straight up 3rd Reich-style Nazi behavior. As I pointed out above - depraved indifference to life in the camps is what the Nazis tried *before* they settled on murdering the Jewish people (and other enemies of the Reich) via Zyklon-B.

In terms of source material, Figueredo uses a variety of articles, but the two most important ones are a CBS (boo) piece about Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff's investigation into conditions in the camps last fall, and a Pro Publica report about the horrifying treatment of children in the Dilley, Texas concentration camp that contains a lot of direct testimony from the children being tortured and their parents.

https://archive.ph/71uqE

"Ossoff investigation details alleged medical neglect, poor conditions at ICE detention centers"

Keeping in mind that Ossof is a cop-humping centrist who literally couldn't talk about obvious human rights abuses his own office uncovered without moaning about Americans demanding secure borders, there are two major findings here in the Dem Senator's survey of over 500 reports of abuse and neglect, from Jan. 20 and Aug. 5, 2025. First, necessary medical care is being routinely denied in the camps (above and beyond ICE simply not paying for medical providers as we detailed in a post above). And secondly, detainees are being purposely given too little food, the food they are given is moldy and maggot infested, and ICE is also withholding access to clean water; all of which is directly contributing to what can thus only be described as "engineered sickness" in the camps.

Now lets turn to the concentration camp for kids, in Dilley, Texas.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/10/us/dilley-ice-children-propublica

"The children of Dilley"

This is a tough article to read if you have any humanity left in your soul because at the end of the day, what we're talking about here is the US government purposely torturing kidnapped children, to force their parents to self deport. The authors again describe substandard food portions, lack of access to medical care, lack of adequate schooling or activities for children, literal 1 year old babies being held in a concentration camp, and much worse. In particular, the authors provide clear evidence that the kids, who aren't supposed to be held here for more than 20 days, as mandated by detention regulations, are spending far more time inside the camps than that - at least one child reported being detained for over 120 days.

"Although a long-standing legal settlement generally limits the time children can be held in detention to 20 days, a data analysis by ProPublica found that about 300 kids sent to Dilley by the Trump administration were there for more than a month. The administration in legal filings has said the agreement from 1997 is outdated and should be terminated because there are new statutes, regulations and policies that ensure good conditions for immigrant minors in detention."

So once again, we see ICE and DHS ignoring the laws and rules they don't like. To torture children. And it's "working."

"There were children in Dilley who were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, several mothers told me."

Folks, there is no reforming this. The people responsible should be in jail - or worse.