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Stephen ONeill's avatar

If we ever get control back there needs to be a Nuremberg series of trials in every state to bring these fascists to justice.

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Teri Gelini's avatar

Definitely

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Linda Weide's avatar

The US prisons have always violated human rights. Now it is just getting press. I agree that we need Nuremberg type trials for this regime.

I also would like to point out that US states have GPDs larger than those of well run countries who have populations of their size. They could be totally providing their citizens with everything since the Federal government is not. The Trump government has 3 funding concerns:

1) billionaires

2) the military

3) ICE

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Kiwiwriter47's avatar

This is NOT a modern-day Gulag.

This is not “Alligator Alcatraz.”

Call it what it is.

Auschwitz 2.0.

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Teri Gelini's avatar

I call in alligator auschwitz

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your weirdo friend's avatar

don't use any of their gimmicky phrasing: everglades auschwitz

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Teri Gelini's avatar

ok

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Sancho Panza's avatar

Face, America is no longer the land of the free and home of the brave. America is the land of 21st Century CONCENTRATION CAMPS! Our executive branch, legislative branch and judicial branch are all run by fascist pigs.

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elliott oberman's avatar

The Alligator Pit is the Ruthless Ambition of Stephen Miller.

While Mr. Miller is an ardent restrictionism, seeking to reduce all immigration to the United States, Mr. Trump has at times backed H-1B visas for skilled foreign workers; created a wait-list for a proposed special visa, called a Trump Gold Card, that wealthy immigrants could buy for $5 million apiece; and expressed regret about the impact ICE raids were having on the agriculture and hospitality industries. Indeed, the backlash to the ICE raids was so great that in early June, Mr. Trump reversed himself and declared the agriculture and hospitality sectors off-limits to that sort of strict immigration enforcement — before, after intense lobbying from Mr. Miller, he reversed himself again. Still, the hiccup was enough to hint at a broader potential rupture, especially if Mr. Miller’s immigration policies continue to prove unpopular. A recent Quinnipiac poll found that 57 percent of Americans disapprove of Mr. Trump’s handling of immigration, once his greatest political strength.

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Kate Cushman's avatar

Clearly just about the revenue stream. They do not G.A.S. about immigrants, opportunity, America, the country’s future. Just money and power and keeping it going.

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Jean Peters's avatar

If only unpopularity beat apathy or ignorance in the Rock, Paper, Scissors game of our sliding democracy.

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Kate Cushman's avatar

Best comment I’ve seen yet? Can I quote you?

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Jean Peters's avatar

Sure.

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Linda Weide's avatar

Fascism expert professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat's points out that all of the actions of ICE, which she sees as being a sort of secret police, are setting us up for massive incarcerations of people. They are setting us up to accept that people can be arrested on a whim, and that is going to include citizens. While the Florida Swamp Concentration Camp is located in the US, Hitler did find that putting his camps in Germany made them subject to citizen upset and protests which is why he built such an extensive network of CCs outside of Germany too. Trump is deporting people to just as inhumane conditions, if not more so in other countries as well.

It is evidence that the Trump regime is filled with racist-sadists. I know that term might be redundant. They know people will be tortured in their camps on US and other soil. As El Salvador has said even in other countries these people are under our jurisdiction. The fate for Brown skinned men in the US is to be imprisoned and tortured either in US prisons, or ICE prisons in the US and elsewhere. That is what the US is offering Black people.

I am not waiting for the massive sterilization of non-White women as well.

We should not be calling this Florida concentration camp by the MAGA term, which is racist too. I am calling it the Florida Swamp Concentration Camp.

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John Schwarzkopf's avatar

Dean, call it what it is! It's not a a detention site, it's a FUCKING CONCENTRATION CAMP!!! American Auschwitz. I expect you to not pull your punches. Do better.

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your weirdo friend's avatar

It'd also be great if you'd point out that a fucking Canadian security company, GardaWorld, are the ones enabling torture at the concentration camp. Why the fuck aren't you writing about that?

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Denise McCammon's avatar

wrong

the company is based in mclean virginia

1760 old meadow road

ste 400

mclean, va 22102

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Sherry Gerbi's avatar

You need to do a better job fact-checking. I used my favorite search engine, Perplexity, and it said GardaWorld’s headquarters are in Montreal Quebec with >120,000 (as of 2022) that operates in multiple countries.

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Wendy Shelley's avatar

Our senators and representatives should go down there to see this concentration camp for themselves. Justices on the Supreme Court should be required to see what their slovenliness has permitted the executive branch to do. Florida state legislators should be required to see for themselves and attest that that’s what they want their governor to continue. “Gulag” as we imagine from Russia, is an apt description. MSM had better wise up and report what’s going on, not pulling punches. This is an abomination!

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LJ57's avatar

A road trip is in order

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BJ Zamora's avatar

Jesus Bloody Christ!!!

Is no one brave enough to call in the international Red Cross because these people are prisoners! If he doesn’t want them here why doesn’t he send them back to their homelands? Why the vicious cruelty? The similarities to German concentration camps and Soviet POW camps are easily evident to anyone with eyes and a brain.

Okay, you monster “Christian” preachers, how the hell is this allowed in the United States? Is there really. Anyone who is good with this going on?

Shame. Shame. Shame..

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Teri Gelini's avatar

The correct name should be Alligator Auschwich. That most resembles what is is. It is meant to break them mentally and physically

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Paulette Marsollier's avatar

This reads like a horror film. It’s a Trump Horror Story!

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Jean Peters's avatar

The 8th Amendment! No cruel and unusual punishment! The 5th Amendment! Due process of law! Congress abrogates all authority to the Regime’s “Emergencies” The SC collaborates. Next camp up? McArthur park, LA.

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Pam Johnson's avatar

Sickening. What can the average American do? Our MOCs are all Dems and the GOPers in other states pay no attention to us. MSM needs to wake up! thank you, Dean.

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Laurie Aughenbaugh's avatar

Its disgusting!!

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Steven Dundas's avatar

Dean,

This is Alligator Auschwitz. They will have to build crematoria to dispose of the diseased bodies. This will also cover up the number of deaths.

Thank you for posting this.

Steve Dundas

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Sherry Gerbi's avatar

I saw a YouTube piece this morning where Ukraine was reporting what was happening to deceased Russian soldiers, some bodies being left in a ditch at the front, some buried at the front; for those bodies being returned home, numerous cemeteries are being started or enlarges.

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Leu2500's avatar

The confederacy has experience with this. See Andersonville prison.

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Sherry Gerbi's avatar

America’s first concentration camps were for Native Americans & then Andersonville.

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Mo Khan's avatar

Alligator Auschwitz must be ended immediately. We cannot have concentration camps in America.

All of the increased ice funding for detention centers inside and outside the US must be eliminated.

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Andy Kotlarz's avatar

Anyone else wondering how the authorities at Alligator Auschwitz are going to deal with overcrowding?

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