Can we just take a moment to answer a simple question: WHY ARE CHILDREN IN A "DETENTION CENTER" IN THE FIRST PLACE?
Because Donald Trump is a sociopath.
Because ~~Donald Trump is a~~ Republicans are sociopaths.
Biden and Obama did it too. This is deeper than parties.
Fuck Trump with a pinecone - but this will not be fixed just because the "other team" wins an election.
Fuck all borders. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/a-no-borders-manifesto
100%
And Stephen Miller is a cartoonishly evil white nationalist hyper-troll.
& Nosferatu wannabe prick
We can just call them concentration camps now. No need to mince words.
Frankly, I usually do. I only made an exception here to match the original euphemistic phrasing.
Because they were kidnapped by men who were already profiting from private prisons, but felt their entrepreneurial capabilities were really being hindered by due process
Republicans: "Our prisons aren't profitable anymore! Too many states legalized weed, so we had to make due.
If you believe the republican narrative, it's because they're all members of Tren de Aragua and MS-13.
In other words, there is no justifiable reason for it and the entire ordeal depends on the ignorance of the maga base and complicity of those in power.
Authorities love to escalate everything.
If you are foreign-born with a "foreign sounding" name and you defend yourself against a bully in a US school, the school admin will literally call the police on you.
Cuz I was that kid who defended himself. And I got in trouble for fucking self defence.
fat white conservatives are afraid of anything not as equally offensive as themselves and commit their limited energy to squashing perceived threats
Because cruelty is the point.
Trying to create the Mexican joker.
Anytime any republican does ANYTHING and says it's "for the children", I want you to remember this exact moment, and know that they are full of shit. THIS is how they treat children.
It's for their own children, not anyone else's.
Nah, it's not even that. They'll toss their own children out in a heartbeat if they don't follow in their parents' footsteps. It's not about children at all. That's just another of their double speak lies.
I don't bother listening to any pedophile's recommendations for child care, and EVERY MAGA is a pedophile.
I recently tracked down a 2a against tyranny type who I knew decades ago. I wanted to get his take on current events.
He is in prison for child porn, so maybe you’re right.
This problem is deeper than both parties, we also allowed children to be in concentration camps in Palestine.. for decades. The US has been changing for the worse since Kennedy died.. we need a revolution, against the slavers. not against our constitution.
The IDF used drones as well as their own automatic weapons to shoot small Palestinian children in the head on the regular. The medical volunteers would see them come in and they told the world about it.
In their minds these are not children they are "illegal aliens".
I feel pretty comfortable telling anybody that reads the headline and doesn't immediately side with the kidnapped children who are being forced to live in squalor: 🗣️🔊GO FUCK YOURSELF AND I HOPE YOU BURN IN HELL, YOU SACK OF NAZI DOG SHIT.
Detention centers aren't even jails. You can be there even if you didn't commit any crime. Also conditions are far worse than jails.
In my case it was a cramped room with no beds or such, about 40 people at certain times, and one single toilet without any door inside that room. "Crime" was being an asylum-seeker
You stay anywhere between 2 days to 6 months and your family members may stay a different amount of time.
Closest picture I could find later was this and google search is so bad nowadays I have to check my message history to find it again.
That was the conditions in 2018. I don't want to think 2026.
I keep posting this picture here because it's inhumane and nobody fucking cares outside of lemmy.
I'm so sorry and you're right nobody deserves that.
I didn't mean to imply that anyone was being detained for commiting a crime. Just pointing out that the same groups that were making insane amounts of money via private prisons (which also often detained innocent people thanks to a broken justice system) are now making even more insane amounts of money by using their privately owned prisons as detention centers.
They believe that profiting from unnecessary suffering is just being smart business men.
It's a bleak and miserable time because some selfish people have intentionally made it that way, but I hope you know that plenty of people definitely care outside of Lemmy. The people who profit from this shit will never understand the strength of humanity because control and corruption through money is the only source of strength they've ever known. It's why they fear equality and democracy. Fuck fascism, fuck oppression, and fuck the oligarchs who enable it!
Holy shit theres like a 3 year old in there.
Starting to sound an awful lot like capital ‘C’ Concentration Camps.
Start watching for “deportation” to transition to torture, forced labor, and death by neglect (which has already happened in some cases.)
Torture, forced labor and death by neglect are all already widespread, just look at Seacott.
The bigger question is, what are you doing about it? There are nazi concentration camps on US soil and federal agents are executing white US citizens in the streets.
Are you going to lie down and take that? Are you just gonna post online about it? Or are you going to join the fight against them, find a local activist group or protest, and arm yourself in preparation for the coming revolution?
How long have those children been in there, huh? I was in juvie pretrial for actual crimes and got outdoor time, school sessions, group therapy. This place have any of that for non-criminal minors?
The whole operation is a money making scheme. They get about $100 per day from the government to detain a person. They are sweeping up as many as they can which clogs up the courts which means they can detain people even longer and make even more money.
I guess it depends on if you trust the word of the private prison corporation that owns the facility and receives a federal contract to pack people in like sardines.
This is just a guess, but I will go out on a limb and say that probably if any of that "exists" it's just for show to check off some boxes on a form that tacks in a few more million to your contract. Like a classroom nobody uses or a recreational area the kids aren't allowed to play in.
We all know the answer to that
Those immigrants kids have more courage than our elected Democrats.
Just a reminder to those who didnt vote.
You helped this.
“leave the kids alone …” ye freakin’ arseholes
One way out.
It makes me feel sick to have to ask this, but did all of the kids survive? Did any make it out?
What do you mean make it out? They're being held in a private prison.
Lee described Saturday’s action inside the facility as a peaceful demonstration, not a riot, and said the show of solidarity carried risk for detained families.
Lee said the protest unfolded against what he described as harsh day-to-day conditions inside the Dilley detention center. He characterized the facility as “a horrible, horrible place,” alleging that drinking water is “putrid” and often undrinkable, and that meals have contained “bugs,” dirt, and debris.
“The guards are just as tough as the guards at the adult facilities. This is not a place that you would want to have your child be for even 15 minutes,” Lee said.
Texas Public Radio reached out to Immigration and Customs Enforcement for comment on the disturbance and on Lee’s allegations regarding Liam Ramos’ treatment but had not received a response by Saturday evening.
The Dilley detention complex — known for years as the South Texas Family Residential Center — closed in 2024 and later reopened, as federal authorities expanded detention capacity for immigrant families, according to prior reporting and company statements.
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