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cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/22433558
President Donald Trump said Wednesday he would sign an executive order to begin preparing a facility on the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base to detain tens of thousands of “the worst” undocumented immigrants.
The order, which Trump said he would sign later Wednesday, will instruct the Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security to prepare 30,000 beds at the site of the infamous U.S. military prison in Cuba, the president said, “to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people.”
“Some of them are so bad we don’t even trust the countries to hold them, because we don’t want them coming back, so we’re gonna send them out to Guantanamo,” Trump said.
“This will double our capacity immediately,” he said, calling it “a tough place to get out of.”
Trump’s remarks came just before he signed the Laken Riley Act, a hardline immigration measure pushed through with some Democratic support — and the first law the president has signed in his second term.
The Guantanamo Bay Naval Base — both a military base and the site of a controversial U.S. military prison that has held terrorism suspects for more than two decades — housed Hatian refugees in the 1990s, before the detention facility was built there. Cubans were also housed there in the 1990s, and former President Joe Biden last year explored plans to house Haitians there if the nation’s precarious government collapsed.
But other presidents who held refugees on the base, or considered doing so, cast their plans as emergency humanitarian measures, rather than harsh deterrents.
The 45-square-mile land and water base, on the southeastern portion of Cuba, has been controlled by the U.S. since 1903 and has long been a thorn in the side of Cuba’s communist government, which resents the U.S. presence on the island. In addition to housing the military prison, whose detainee population had shrunk to 15 people by the end of the Biden administration, the base is used by the Navy as “a key operational and logistics hub, supporting a variety of missions including maritime security, humanitarian assistance, and joint operations,” according to The Navy.
A White House spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for additional details on the contents of the executive order or when Trump would sign it.
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And then the US said to Germany, “We too, can do Auschwitz.”
Nazis in the US are faster than German Nazis I see. It took Hitler a couple of months to open his first concentration camp.
The US was Hitlers inspiration for concentration camps. The US has been perfecting them since beore the trail of tears.
Hitler didn’t have extra-legal detention camps built over twenty years before he came to power that he could just repurpose
“We have the best camps, everyone is saying it!”
Hey Americans, is this the red line that if crossed you are going to start resisting trumpist fascism by any means necessary?
Many years ago I had a roommate who was in the US military in Guantanamo Bay. After her service she just drank herself into a stupor every night. Now and then she’d drunkenly rant off bits and pieces of what happened there, and it’s no wonder she couldn’t sleep.
This was just a few years after the horrific pictures leaked, for reference.
Yep. A good friend of mine told some pretty horrific stories, I can’t imagine being put in that situation.
Guantanamo should not exist
And so it begins…
There’s also the 1400 acres for a camp in Texas. I’m sure there are others we don’t hear about.
We know now that they are preparing concentration camps. We know that they are openly doing Nazi salutes to one another. We know that all of Trump’s policies directly mirror the strategies of the Nazis in the 1930s. We know that many people who, under the Nazis, thought they could keep a low profile and ride it out were killed in the camps, and we know that fascists’ lists of enemies have to grow constantly. We can see where this is going, no doubt about it. Now is the time to fight back. If Hitler had been removed early, tens of millions of people would not have had to die and the world would be very different. Now is America’s chance to stop this fascist dictator early. It’s not possible to stay safe by lying low (here’s a piece about that). It’s a choice between risking action now or being rounded up later. The USA urgently needs an active, large-scale, popular resistance to fascism, and that doesn’t mean waiting to vote against Nazis in the midterms.
Just another step down the path to complete facism. The journey started a while back though.
I guess this is where the trans people and Jim Acosta will be kept.
You americans see republicans and democrats, or governors doing idiotic stuff… maybe just an odd orange man doing shit. I, from the outside, don"t recognize any difference. Do something cause this isn’t on trump, this is on you all
