When all these horrors are done, when the don is dead, all the ill begotten wealth obtained during this administration should be confiscated and used to restore ecosystems, and build community gardens full of biodiversity and good food people can eat for free throughout the nation. Musk will be a wonderful contributor as will Bezos and all the tech billionaires who up till now are only supporting a dystopian future with no biodiversity and food that we depend on being made on AI operated farms.
If your takeaway from all this is "wE cAn'T hAvE bOrDeRs AnYmOrE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!", then your god is a bunch of imaginary lines that are... more important than actual children?!?
So question: Every time I hear someone put the blame for this on Joe Biden, I want to take a Louisville Slugger and smash their skull in. Does that make me a bad person?
For profit prisons. That means the local government has a shitload of leverage on them and a shitload of responsibility on themselves to ensure that these facilities are operating according to all relevant laws.
They think they can turn the Mayor away from an inspection? How about an army of inspectors from every city regulatory agency on your doorstep the next morning, shutting your business the fuck down for noncompliance with ordnances and laws?
The cities have so much power over these places, and they don't use it.
So more like true enough to be effective, but not absolutely true. You see, if you build homes to get 1000 more people, you get 1000 more voters, but if you build a prison to get 1000 more prisoners, you get 850 more voters. It is still more profitable to build prisons than homes, politically speaking.
Ta, Dok. Everything about this maladministration is infuriating, but this treatment of children is beyond the pale. Of course, no Republican lawmakers are brave enough to care publicly (and I don't give a flying fuck what's in their alleged hearts), but then again they don't care when kids are gunned down in school, so it's unsurprising.
I only have one minor addition-where you say, "...in America’s journey to a gulag state..". I feel we're already there. 🙁 Maybe we haven't built as many prisons and internment camps as Stalin did, but it's not for lack of trying. They seem to be popping up in every state, even in some blue ones. At least ICE hasn't built any forced labor camps yet
I just hope when the Dems are in charge we make sure they do right. Obama put families in prisons to hold them, Hillary said they "need to know we're not going to keep their children here" (meaning they'd be sent back). Obama deported more people than anyone until Biden. A quasi in-law of mine was in Mexico three days after a misdemeanor arrest during Biden. The utter insanity is dramatically worse, but the gist of how we treat immigrants is consistent. ICE needs to be abolished.
OMG, thank you! I was slugging it out in family detention in 2014, and advocates could NOT get media traction on it at all. Amy Klobuchar refused to sign off on a letter from 30+ D senators who called for closure - she came back w her own letter that said "can you please just make family detention less icky."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Kurtz – "[Kurtz] was using those methods to brutally torture Vietnamese people, nearly to death, yet, he was not a sadist but a confident individual, using his boldness to ensure USA's triumph."
Our present-day Kurtzes, too, are proud of their cruelty.
“Many had filed applications for asylum, had married U.S. citizens or had been granted humanitarian parole and were detained when they voluntarily showed up for appointments at ICE offices.”
And this fills me with white hot rage because every MAGAt will claim that they’re for immigration so long as it’s done “the right way.” But we know that’s a lie because they keep insisting that asylum seekers are “illegals” and anyone detained by ICE is by definition “illegal” because ICE never makes mistakes or just flat out lies.
Never mind that the family of Liam Ramos were here under a valid asylum claim. Also, never mind that the entire narrative ICE concocted about his father running away and abandoning him (but later also insisting that Liam be taken to the hell prison with him) is contradicted by eye witnesses.
I worked in a Immigration detention center for 10 years. It wasn't the 4 Seasons, but we carried no weapons only the detainees had those. Everyone had access to toilets, showers, beds and an hour of yard. I can honestly say that I never saw any staff excessive force unless it was breaking up fights. 3 meals a day, and if they got back from outside consulate trips they got a sack lunch. Every female movement was by two males or one female, supervisor must sign for it and they must be in a camera room at all times.
I felt safer in the yard than in an Admin. meeting. The majority were criminals, but they still needed stuff.
In 70s Germany, the CEO of CoreCivic would have been pulled out of his limo, shoved into a Volkswagen Kombi and trundled off to an undisclosed location.
I wish there was a god and that hell existed, because these monsters would die horribly and slowly before spending eternity in torment.
When all these horrors are done, when the don is dead, all the ill begotten wealth obtained during this administration should be confiscated and used to restore ecosystems, and build community gardens full of biodiversity and good food people can eat for free throughout the nation. Musk will be a wonderful contributor as will Bezos and all the tech billionaires who up till now are only supporting a dystopian future with no biodiversity and food that we depend on being made on AI operated farms.
I know if I sent Dok's post to certain relatives, they'd say "Well, they must deserve it!"
because Trump says so or "It's fake news!" How sad is that?
Bravo Pro Publica.
If your takeaway from all this is "wE cAn'T hAvE bOrDeRs AnYmOrE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!", then your god is a bunch of imaginary lines that are... more important than actual children?!?
I personally believe we should feed ICE personal who have been jailed for murder and jailed too.
I cannot parse this sentence, can you try to rewrite it?
Nope
I'm sorry to hear about your disability. I hope it is temporary, and if not I hope you can live as good a life as possible.
You are off my Christmas fruit cake list
I still don't know what your first sentence meant, so I can't tell if our deteriorating relationship is a good or bad thing.
It's the little mysteries that make life worth living
So question: Every time I hear someone put the blame for this on Joe Biden, I want to take a Louisville Slugger and smash their skull in. Does that make me a bad person?
Nope.
Only if you actually do it.
Damn you, Walter Mitty!!!
Let's shit on the local authorities for a while.
For profit prisons. That means the local government has a shitload of leverage on them and a shitload of responsibility on themselves to ensure that these facilities are operating according to all relevant laws.
They think they can turn the Mayor away from an inspection? How about an army of inspectors from every city regulatory agency on your doorstep the next morning, shutting your business the fuck down for noncompliance with ordnances and laws?
The cities have so much power over these places, and they don't use it.
The value of your political position is based on number of humans in your purview.
The number of votes you need to maintain your political position is based on the number of voters in your purview.
Prisoners don't count as voters.
So politicians want more prisoners around, it increases their power without increasing their workload.
Not true, at least in some states. Prisoners can only be deprived of the right to vote if that is explicitly part of there sentence. See https://www.findlaw.com/voting/my-voting-guide/felon-voting-laws-by-state.html
So more like true enough to be effective, but not absolutely true. You see, if you build homes to get 1000 more people, you get 1000 more voters, but if you build a prison to get 1000 more prisoners, you get 850 more voters. It is still more profitable to build prisons than homes, politically speaking.
Ta, Dok. Everything about this maladministration is infuriating, but this treatment of children is beyond the pale. Of course, no Republican lawmakers are brave enough to care publicly (and I don't give a flying fuck what's in their alleged hearts), but then again they don't care when kids are gunned down in school, so it's unsurprising.
A confederacy of dunces, playing out in real time every single day.
Really fine reporting Dok.🏆🏆 🏆
I only have one minor addition-where you say, "...in America’s journey to a gulag state..". I feel we're already there. 🙁 Maybe we haven't built as many prisons and internment camps as Stalin did, but it's not for lack of trying. They seem to be popping up in every state, even in some blue ones. At least ICE hasn't built any forced labor camps yet
Or have they?
I just hope when the Dems are in charge we make sure they do right. Obama put families in prisons to hold them, Hillary said they "need to know we're not going to keep their children here" (meaning they'd be sent back). Obama deported more people than anyone until Biden. A quasi in-law of mine was in Mexico three days after a misdemeanor arrest during Biden. The utter insanity is dramatically worse, but the gist of how we treat immigrants is consistent. ICE needs to be abolished.
Yeah, one party being worse doesn't make what the other party does OK. The lesser of two evils is still evil.
OMG, thank you! I was slugging it out in family detention in 2014, and advocates could NOT get media traction on it at all. Amy Klobuchar refused to sign off on a letter from 30+ D senators who called for closure - she came back w her own letter that said "can you please just make family detention less icky."
Oh the irony that Kurtz and his fellow colonizer clan could not see that they themselves were brutes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Kurtz – "[Kurtz] was using those methods to brutally torture Vietnamese people, nearly to death, yet, he was not a sadist but a confident individual, using his boldness to ensure USA's triumph."
Our present-day Kurtzes, too, are proud of their cruelty.
“Many had filed applications for asylum, had married U.S. citizens or had been granted humanitarian parole and were detained when they voluntarily showed up for appointments at ICE offices.”
And this fills me with white hot rage because every MAGAt will claim that they’re for immigration so long as it’s done “the right way.” But we know that’s a lie because they keep insisting that asylum seekers are “illegals” and anyone detained by ICE is by definition “illegal” because ICE never makes mistakes or just flat out lies.
Never mind that the family of Liam Ramos were here under a valid asylum claim. Also, never mind that the entire narrative ICE concocted about his father running away and abandoning him (but later also insisting that Liam be taken to the hell prison with him) is contradicted by eye witnesses.
Fuck these people.
I worked in a Immigration detention center for 10 years. It wasn't the 4 Seasons, but we carried no weapons only the detainees had those. Everyone had access to toilets, showers, beds and an hour of yard. I can honestly say that I never saw any staff excessive force unless it was breaking up fights. 3 meals a day, and if they got back from outside consulate trips they got a sack lunch. Every female movement was by two males or one female, supervisor must sign for it and they must be in a camera room at all times.
I felt safer in the yard than in an Admin. meeting. The majority were criminals, but they still needed stuff.
A reminder that anne frank didnt die in the gas chambers.
We, the people, are going to have to liberate these camps.
In 70s Germany, the CEO of CoreCivic would have been pulled out of his limo, shoved into a Volkswagen Kombi and trundled off to an undisclosed location.
Gotta keep those private prisons full, dontcha know. How else are they going to turn a profit
Grandson asked why he didn't name it the 'Hitler Mobile'?