cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/43230217
Feb. 13, 2026
President Donald Trump’s anti-immigration agenda has supercharged opposition in cities where he has deployed federal agents to conduct raids, and communities in states including New York and Missouri are already working to block the next step the Department of Homeland Security plans to take in its push for mass deportations: acquiring massive warehouses across the country to use as immigrant detention centers.
US immigration and Customs Enforcement documents that were provided to Republican Gov. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire—one of the states where ICE aims to acquire a building and retrofit it to house at least 1,000 people at a time—show that the administration plans to spend $38.3 billion on its mass detention plan.
I think you’re missing the part where they are massively expanding the number of these facilities. This goes way beyond the kind of “common use” that “both sides” have used.
This is literally how things started in Nazi Germany. First, they needed somewhere to put the “undesirables” while they awaited deportation. But when they couldn’t convince other countries to take them in such huge numbers, they just put them to work instead. And by the end of the war, the “final solution” they came up with for what to do with them, was just to start exterminating them, en masse.
What they called these camps changed over time. First they were just detainment camps…then they were work camps…then they became concentration camps, once they began shutting down the smaller ones, and shipped everyone to the largest camps for disposal.
The DNC helped lay the foundations of those camps.