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HAB911

(8,876 posts)
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 03:43 PM Jun 2018

U.S. Navy plans immigrant internment camps to detain tens of thousands in CA, AL, AZ

An internal document shows the U.S. Navy has developed a plan to construct 'austere' tent cities capable of holding tens of thousands of immigration detainees on remote bases in California, Alabama and Arizona.

The Navy planning doc obtained by TIME says two sites in California could house up to 47,000 immigrants each, two sites in Alabama could host 25,000.

https://boingboing.net/2018/06/22/internment-camps.html

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U.S. Navy plans immigrant internment camps to detain tens of thousands in CA, AL, AZ (Original Post) HAB911 Jun 2018 OP
Will journalists, lawyers and other civilians have easy access to the incarcerated Sophia4 Jun 2018 #1
probably onethatcares Jun 2018 #5
you beat me to it DBoon Jun 2018 #13
Do we currently have more than 100k immigrants in the pipeline? NightWatcher Jun 2018 #2
just people like us I'm sure HAB911 Jun 2018 #4
I'm concerned that he'll start rounding up immigrants with legal status. NightWatcher Jun 2018 #7
Not sure but... wcmagumba Jun 2018 #9
K&R Solly Mack Jun 2018 #3
It's not just going to be children. awesomerwb1 Jun 2018 #6
Let's keep bankrupting the country. 45 doesn't care if he gets his Reich. sinkingfeeling Jun 2018 #8
A war where there are no military casualties or prisoners: only civilian. marble falls Jun 2018 #10
It sounds to me like they're planning a major deportation push. MineralMan Jun 2018 #11
I expect the military to do what they are told, however HAB911 Jun 2018 #19
I'm surprised they aren't using their beloved Gitmo...nt mitch96 Jun 2018 #12
Are these really the FEMA Camps we have been warned about? DURHAM D Jun 2018 #14
$700 per day per person. Do the math. rainin Jun 2018 #15
You could put them all in cabins on luxury cruise ships and save money. sinkingfeeling Jun 2018 #20
Haven't we signed treaties against these exact kind of atrocities??? C_U_L8R Jun 2018 #16
the us navy will do what it is ordered to do nt msongs Jun 2018 #17
There will no no excuses for just saying I'm following orders. rockfordfile Jun 2018 #18
I have a feeling Californians aren't going to like this too much. roamer65 Jun 2018 #21
I think Putin wants the bdamomma Jun 2018 #23
That is their goal. roamer65 Jun 2018 #25
The two Alabama locations are near me. trof Jun 2018 #22
WE need to stop this bdamomma Jun 2018 #24
Maybe CNN will become Sinclair Fascist News Central. magicarpet Jun 2018 #28
Nothing says Martial Law like interning civilians at military bases Hekate Jun 2018 #26
There has been veiled threats AmandaRuth Jun 2018 #27
Puerto Ricans who moved to Florida after the hurricane may vote in 2018. magicarpet Jun 2018 #29

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
2. Do we currently have more than 100k immigrants in the pipeline?
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 03:46 PM
Jun 2018

Or are they making room for anyone else?

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
7. I'm concerned that he'll start rounding up immigrants with legal status.
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 03:48 PM
Jun 2018

And or people here on visa or just brown people in general.

awesomerwb1

(4,267 posts)
6. It's not just going to be children.
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 03:48 PM
Jun 2018

I've been saying that the next step is stepping up deportations like we've never seen before. Just my opinion, hope I'm wrong.

New judges (with more coming), tent cities.

MineralMan

(146,284 posts)
11. It sounds to me like they're planning a major deportation push.
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 03:51 PM
Jun 2018

Just this week, they arrested 140 people in a raid of an Ohio meat packing plant. Watch for more big sweeps by ICE. I think they're planning to send them to the concentration camps. "Austere" is a word that effectively describes such substandard "detention" facilities.

I fear we are about to see some things we don't want to see. The reason they're putting them on military bases is the effective access control at such bases. They can keep out anyone they want, and will, no doubt.

HAB911

(8,876 posts)
19. I expect the military to do what they are told, however
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 06:41 PM
Jun 2018

I hope the leaking will be profuse enough to get the truth out

C_U_L8R

(44,997 posts)
16. Haven't we signed treaties against these exact kind of atrocities???
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 04:14 PM
Jun 2018

These foreign nationals (moms dads and kids) are being treated like POWs...
apparently in military facilities now.. except without even the
protections afforded a POW much less their actual rights ...
nor is there any visibility or accountability to congress,
the press or humanitarian groups. These families are hostages.
And their treatment by America is truly heinous...
it is quite possibly, torture. Do the Geneva Conventions even apply?
https://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/article/other/57jmat.htm

Unity of the family is taken into consideration in the various provisions relative to persons deprived of their freedom. The Fourth Geneva Convention states that, wherever possible, interned members of the same family shall be housed in the same premises and given separate accommodation from other internees, together with facilities for leading a proper family life (article 82). Internees may request that their children who are left at liberty without parental care shall be interned with them (article 82). According to Protocol I, families arr ested, detained or interned shall, whenever possible, be accommodated as family units (article 75, 5).


rockfordfile

(8,701 posts)
18. There will no no excuses for just saying I'm following orders.
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 05:34 PM
Jun 2018

We need Nuremberg type trials for trump and other gop members.

roamer65

(36,745 posts)
21. I have a feeling Californians aren't going to like this too much.
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 07:55 PM
Jun 2018

It’s the stuff secession movements are made of...

roamer65

(36,745 posts)
25. That is their goal.
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 08:27 PM
Jun 2018

Dump will be fully responsible for any consequences and should be treated accordingly.

California has friends, if you get my drift.

trof

(54,256 posts)
22. The two Alabama locations are near me.
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 08:05 PM
Jun 2018

They're in Baldwin county.
Navy auxiliary fields sometimes used for landing training for navy student pilots at nearby Pensacola NAS.
.
OLF (Outlying Field) Silverhill and OLF Wolf.

We are now in hurricane season on the gulf coast.

Doesn't seem like a good time to set up tent cities or whatever.
Hurricane evacuation is bad enough down here as it is.

bdamomma

(63,836 posts)
24. WE need to stop this
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 08:21 PM
Jun 2018

I have this horrible feeling they will be rounding up journalists, artists and anyone who disagrees with them.











magicarpet

(14,144 posts)
28. Maybe CNN will become Sinclair Fascist News Central.
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 09:32 PM
Jun 2018

Lock the CNN news team up in tent prisons on military bases away from public view or scrutiny.

Hekate

(90,633 posts)
26. Nothing says Martial Law like interning civilians at military bases
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 08:33 PM
Jun 2018

NOT IN MY NAME, YOU EVIL BASTARDS!

magicarpet

(14,144 posts)
29. Puerto Ricans who moved to Florida after the hurricane may vote in 2018.
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 09:41 PM
Jun 2018

What better way to disenfranchise these Puerto Rican voters than to lock them up on military bases and block them from casting any votes in the 2018 & 2020 coming elections.

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