The administration is buying and retrofitting warehouses across the country for mass deportation.
No Concentration Camps US (NoCCUS.org).
No Concentration Camps US is a coalition of grassroots organizers and national groups fighting these sites. Sharing resources and strategy, we’re pushing back every day.
On Christmas eve, the Trump administration announced a plan to open seven huge warehouse facilities that would act as centers for final deportation out of the country. Set to house up to ten thousand people, these concentration camps would far outsize anything the federal government has ever run for detention. The largest detention facility at Fort Bliss (known as Camp East Montana) at its highest capacity only held three thousand people and it has been riddled with charges of human rights abuses and is now rumored to be closing. Also part of the mass deportation scheme are the additional sixteen smaller warehouse sites located throughout the country. They would hold about fifteen hundred people and act as feeder sites for the massive warehouses.
Communities throughout the US are fighting back recognizing that warehouses were never intended to house people. Some fight warehouses on moral grounds and some fight from practical perspectives over how they affect neighborhoods. Broad based coalitions have united to push back and have won some significant victories. Real estate owners have refused to sell and have walked away from selling to ICE. Communities have been energized to go before city councils and demand the use of zoning and permits. People have used their right of free speech to hold rallies and protests raising awareness and demanding their elected politicians act on their behalf. Political pressure has been used to cancel warehouses in at least two incidents. Now efforts are underway to target contractors and employers doing business with ICE. More victories may be on the way. But we recognize the fight will be long and hard won.
Your support to these affected communities and on the national level make a difference. Awareness and education are key. Everyone has seen the violence on the streets in Minneapolis and elsewhere. ICE is active throughout the country. As the administration ramps up mass deportation and demands that this deportation system with warehouses becomes a reality, ICE will be forced to become even more aggressive in achieving its quotas which translates into more and more risky and violent behavior on the streets. This is not the America we want.
Your voice, your presence is needed more than ever. No Kings 3 is March 28th. No doubt the midterms will be consequential but we need you now too.
For more information about ICE warehouses, please check out http://www.NoCCUS.org
No Concentration Camps US (NoCCUS)
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