Outrage is mounting in Georgia and across the United States as the federal government moves to dramatically expand Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention capacity as part of an escalating war on immigrants. In rural Social Circle, Georgia, local officials revealed that ICE intends to purchase a 1.2 million-square-foot warehouse and convert it into a massive detention complex capable of holding up to 10,000 people, a scale of incarceration not seen in the United States since the mass imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachau_concentration_camp

    After the takeover of Bavaria on 9 March 1933, Heinrich Himmler, then Chief of Police in Munich, began to speak with the administration of an unused gunpowder and munitions factory. He toured the site to see if it could be used for quartering protective-custody prisoners.

    Himmler announced in the Münchner Neueste Nachrichten newspaper that the camp could hold up to 5,000 people, and described it as “the first concentration camp for political prisoners” to be used to restore calm to Germany.[18] It became the first regular concentration camp established by the coalition government of the National Socialist German Worker’s Party (Nazi Party) and the German National People’s Party (dissolved on 6 July 1933). Dachau was the concentration camp that was in operation the longest, from March 1933 to April 1945, nearly all twelve years of the Nazi regime.

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    “Capable of holding 10,000 people”

    I guarantee if this gets built they will shove 5 times that amount of people in there.

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    Reminder that these detainees are a mix of US citizens, legal immigrants, legal immigrants made illegal by this admin by taking away their status, and illegal immigrants. Most are law abiding and tax paying people.

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      Most are law abiding and tax paying people

      …which makes them the natural enemies of this admin of crooks, which are neither of the two.

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      Hence why they’re building a new prison for them instead of sending them back to their home country.

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    “for immigrants”

    Yes, just keep telling yourselves that, it’s only for immigrants, surely they’ll never be used for anyone but immigrants. Even while ICE is already having trouble finding enough brown people – illegal immigrant or not – to arrest to fulfill their quotas, they’re still buying up and building more space solely for housing “immigrants”. Right. Uh huh.

    • They’re trying to build massive concentration camps while deporting anyone who is even slightly brown or “ethnic”, often to countries they have zero connection to. So I ask you, who are these concentration camps for?

      Hint: System of a Down got it right

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      It will always be for “immigrants”. But Trump, through an "emergency executive order in the name of national security’ gets to define who is an “immigrant”.

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    oh look. they have ball court access. so they’re “free range?”

    the nazis who build this need a nuremberg.

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    ICE should be disbanded and anyone responsible for this kind of thing should be arrested.

    I’d love to see Democrats running on that for 2026 elections.

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    And when they feel like they’ve got a handle on the immigrants, they’ll use those Concentration Camps to hold those they can lease out to corporations as Federal Slaves.

    Who will be in those camps? People who have too much debt, are unemployed, homeless, need government assistance, protesters, dissenters, etc.

    Also, they are currently building a facility in Guantanamo Bay, to hold 30,000 people. It currently holds about 200, and the largest maximum security prison in America holds 8300. If they’re building a place for 30K, they must be planning on locking up a LOT of people.

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    It’s going to get real bad and those people who thought three No Kings protests were enough are going to wish they would’ve done more when they’re dragged away to these concentration camps.

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    I may have to go visit said spot before there’s a ton of security, just for “informational purposes”

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      How many sugars do you take in your coffee? At least a couple of five pound bags, right?

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    Is this going to turn out to be a slavery thing? Do they end up working for the Fed?

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    Outrage, but no stopping it—or, just a relocation. Zero things are getting better. Don’t let the lib media trick you into having hope.