In a Texas town at the edge of the Rio Grande and a tall metal border wall, rumors swirled that federal immigration officials wanted to purchase three hulking warehouses to transform into a detention center.
As local officials scrambled to find out what was happening, a deed was filed showing DHS had already inked a $122.8 million deal for the 826,000-square-foot (76,738-square-meter) warehouses in Socorro, a bedroom community of 40,000 people outside El Paso.
“Nobody from the federal government bothered to pick up the phone or even send us any type of correspondence letting us know what’s about to take place,” said Rudy Cruz Jr., the mayor of the predominantly Hispanic town of low-slung ranch homes and trailer parks, where orchards and irrigation ditches share the landscape with strip malls, truck stops, recycling plants and distribution warehouses.
Socorro is among at least 20 communities with large warehouses across the U.S. that have become stealth targets for Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s $45-billion expansion of detention centers.
In Nazi Germany, most concentration camps were also “just” meant as additional jails for the ever-expanding list of “criminals” (according to the criminal regime of course). They had inhuman conditions because it was cheaper and no one cared too much about the inmates. Later on, some of those concentration camps became literal death camps.
The Holocaust aka “the final solution” was the result of a logistic issue. The Nazi’s initial plan was to deport the jews.
I have no expectations of USA doing anything different when they realize the cost of keeping people alive in prisons.
Concentration camps.
Congress could pass a law any day making it illegal to house people in warehouses and stop this before it gets ugly.
Unfortunately, the majority are spineless complicit traitors as well.
Buying? Buying? These are Federal properties?
So we can FOIA everything about the purchase?
No, silly. That was before, in the old times when laws were followed. Now? FOIA = Fuck Off, I Am the Law.
This is where zoning laws may become useful.
unfortunately, zoning laws mostly only apply inside city limits. go on county land and anything goes
Ah, so THAT’S where they’ll be putting the camps. Well, that answers my previous question.
