Trump: Today I'm also signing an executive order to instruct the departments of defense and homeland security to begin preparing the 30,000 person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay
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And no one will be able to get close enough to see how the detainees are being treated at Guantanamo. Certainly a big part of the reason they're putting THE FIRST ONE there. Eventually, there will be others. The companies who get to run for profit prisons are salivating.
Guantanamo is outside of US laws. That's how we were able to keep Taliban soldiers without trial for decades. So long they needed to implement a hospice program.
Are you proud, @gallego.senate.gov?
You sided with the GOP to pass that Act.
Now you own this.
Were your 30 pieces of collaboration silver worth it, Ruben?
Sweet Jesus, he wants to send people to Guantanamo Bay because they came to this
Country to find a better life?! This will cost a fortune, doesn’t it need to go through the appropriation process?
I am sorry to have to say this, but that might be a bit naive. Europeans tried to warn you that when people start talking about one group they want to get rid of, there will be probably be a whole list. The "first they came for --" poem will give an idea.
"We will pull workers who are paying taxes out of the workplace, and place them on welfare and make them dependent on us in an open air prison. Instead of profiting from their labor we will now pay to keep them as inmates. We will set everyone up fpr a loss."
This is one giant waste of money. And in Guantanamo Bay, why!? Nazis used to build concentration camps. Instead of golfing, trump should visit Auschwitz.
It’s a response to his administration realizing they can’t just fly all the deportees to their home nations or random locales. It plays up his tough man person & tactics and reinforces his narrative that immigrants are so dangerous that it requires military force. It’s stupid policy & theatrics.
Merriam-Webster concentration camp definition:
"a place where large numbers of people (such as prisoners of war, political prisoners, refugees, or the members of an ethnic or religious minority) are detained or confined under armed guard"
Blatantly inhumanely un-American. TRUMP-VANCE/GOP are taking terrified crying children from classrooms & locking them up. WAKE THE F UP=Smell the Hateful racism. It's undocumented immigrants now. Next documented immigrants? POC w/low income? Will Trump-GOP lock them up in Gitmo as well?
I had been wondering the same thing. I don't remember ever seeing military details (especially this many) from all branches just standing in the background during a white house general announcement.
Nixon wanted to set up his own Praetorian Guard, but something stopped it. I'll have to look this up for the details. He wanted to be a lawless dictator just like Trump, but he was slightly smoother about it, and he was a lawyer, so he knew things he was doing were unethical and/or illegal.
JFC. Trump's Agenda: Project 2025 & Mein Kampf 1925. A century in the works.
"Nazi officials established the first concentration camp, Dachau, on March 22, 1933, for political prisoners. It was later used as a model for an expanded and centralized concentration camp system managed by the SS."
I know this isn't the most important thing to criticize, but to my eye those look like shitty green-screen artifacts there (frame rate's off between the background and the foreground, I'm seeing artifacting around the shoulder areas). Orange's phoning it in.
That's a disgrace that Guantanamo Bay with 30,000 beds that's a disgrace you should offer them to go to their home countries first this is the United States of America this is not a communist country that's a disgrace pure and simple 100%
Jesus Christ, imagine all these contractors licking their chops over this administration’s draconian mega projects, only to get screwed over with payment after these projects are finished (they won’t be, just like the 60 miles of wall).
Yes, exactly this. It’s shit legislation written by corrupt, self-centered assholes who cheated their way through school & spend their weekends at the club/church griping about how they deserve more respect 🫡
Congress passed a law that denied him the authority to close it. Republicans made them into supervillians who would break out of a Federal Supermax. The truth is they don't want the prisoners out to talk about torture.
It was so politicized that some Democrats were afraid to do the right thing.
This old man really does not learn from history. Have people forgotten the Japanese Camps? WWII mistakes should not be repeated.
The U.N. and Human Rights advocates must bring U.S. to international courts.
I have the feeling this might end up differently than he thinks. Either he’s lying to cover up other stuff or he’s about to make a lot of countries really upset.
Well the first plane cost them almost 900k. Dumping their corpse into the ocean after murdering them, you see is much cheaper. Capitalist efficency in Action.
He said most people don’t know about Guantanamo. Yeah we do. Bush 2 held “terrorist” there for years without a right to a speedy trial. It has an ugly history.
That’s actually untrue they didn’t try or accomplish a lot there. Obama and Biden both greatly reduced the number of ppl there down to very few. Obama from 242 to 55, then Biden to 15. It was mostly Congressional restrictions blocking them from taking it to zero. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/show/obama-failed-close-guantanamo
Okay, hold on. There have been negotiations going on under Dem administrations for years. There are not many being detained there at this time. Biden has on it.
"The worst criminal illegals". Let me guess, most of their worst crime is being undocumented. Guantanamo is even too cruel for POWs and they want to put immigrants there. I'm sickened
On November 9 1938, the Night of Broken Glass, saw Jews rounded up, stripped of their property, & imprisoned in concentration camps. MAGA will be written into the history books as being pure evil!
Correction: In 1933 they burned the Sexology institute of Berlin and murdered many of its trans patients. If people had given a shit about queer and disabled folk then they might've fought back before a large group like jewish folk were targeted and the infrastructure hadn't been put in place yet.
A lot of American Citizens of certain ethnicities better start walking with their proof of Citizenship because they are subject to being swept up with undocumented people
Anyone else think Guantánamo Bay is more performative politics for his racist base, from the Chaos Agent & Felon in Chief, after his 4 stinging EOs losses of this week:
✖️IG Firings, walked back
✖️ Federal Freeze Rescinded
✖️Birthright Citizenship blocked in Federal Courts
✖️Columbia Tariffs walked back
Maybe don't use unethical GenAI to prove a point. Like, I'm with you with uniting against Trump, but this is kinda gross. And yes, it's very obvious this is GenAI. GenAI is theft, and it should not be tolerated.
Trump is undermining the rule of law in the United States, sabotaging our economy & wants to create internment camps for foreign nationals in violation of international law.
His actions benefit BRICS nations including Russia & China. Gosh, what a surprise.
Talking about Brics Nations. Russia and China are heavily involved with their new Brics partner 🇨🇺 Not only are they now positioned 80 NM off the coast of the US. Guantanamo is ripe for their picking...
Isn't that the single most expensive place to try to house 30K people? Why not just put them in Texas where there is space, a workforce, and a logical/cheap way of getting people and supplies in and out?
You're forgetting that he doesn't want anyone to see how they are going to be treated. Anyone could just fly a drone over a Texas camp, activists and politicians could visit/protest outside....not gonna happen now.
You should be asking why the GOP will allow it, not if Cuba will. All but a tiny percentage of the immigrants that they'll "detain" there will be peaceful, law abiding (other than lacking documentation) people. In fact, they're sure to round up some with legal immigration status in the process.
Even the 38 current detainees should not still be there. If we could not prove that they were Islamic terrorists after twenty years of detention, we should have sent them back to whatever country from which we abducted them. We are violating traditional American principles of liberty and due process
Because that's how mass deportation works. The countries do not accept the massive numbers of immigrants being sent their way, so people have to be held at the border. Usually in camps. And in terrible conditions so they don't cost money.
After birthright citizenship is revoked, alot of people will be stateless, and Latin American countries won't take them. Alot won't take immigrants who do have an origin state. So, if no one wants them, gotta do a genocide. This is going to be so bad once that camp is liberated, years from now.
Yes because migrants can be returned to their original country. This is for all the people they don't like or who disagree with them who have no origin country to return to because their origin country is the US.
Perhaps they'll test it out with a few Native Americans to see who squeals. Trump can't have them kicking up a fuss over drilling on native lands. They've started rounding them up already, haven't they.
Yes they've been trying. And I think he also tried saying he would end birthright citizenship for Native Americans. But not for himself or his own kids though I wouldn't think.
(3)...
There's exactly *ONE* place that checks all those boxes for the US today, and I don't see it as a coincidence *at all* that that *ONE place* is where Trump decided to build his giant 'migrant detention camp.'
(2)...almost all of the actual extermination camps were in Poland. Poland was the ideal location because it was:
* Entirely under military control
* Outside the country's formal borders
* Inaccessible to domestic citizens
* Close enough geographically to allow mass relocation of people there
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I've been saying that, it's not like even MAGA voters are all in for GOP policies, they just like their guy.
There's a reason Rs have won the popular vote for prez only 2X since 1988. Once was W in 2004, nation freaked after 9/11. And 2024...when "throw the bums out" happened all over the planet
MAGATs have served their purpose. He couldn't give a stuff about them now, or what they think.
The race is on in Trump's Project 2025 party to do as much irreversible damage as they can before the midterms.
He's ignoring the Constitution and he hasn't used his immunity yet. https://bsky.app/profile/maxchch.bsky.social/post/3lbsh3v2ntk2d
I knew that’s what you meant, but the power affect change is in Washington, and while the congressional republicans are intimidated by trump, nothing will change unless we retake the house in 2026.
The rot has set in. Anyone who speaks ill of Dear Leader gets labeled as a RINO and ostracized, wether by their community or local orgs. It'll take a *lot* for the base to ever turn on him. And I mean a LOT.
Trump is announcing the creation of a concentration camp. This is not acceptable in the U.S. or in the world. There really can be no other business as usual before stopping this evil plan of action--it must be protested, defunded, put on blast--NO CONCENTRATION CAMPS AT GUANTANAMO BAY OR ANYWHERE!!
I think we need to start fooling ourselves and wake up. Those camps aren't just for migrants. They russled up maybe 800 "illegals" in 2 weeks. We dont need camps that hold 30k, if its just for migrants.
Totally agree! Part of the plan to deport 11 million “criminal” undocumented immigrants.
There is no reason for his concentration camps. Everyone is supposed to be deported.
What is really happening here?
I strongly condemn this! Please consider that in Nazi Germany, concentration camps held up to 800,000 people. 2-3 times their designed capacity. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Trump camp eventually holds 90,000 people. The living conditions will likely be hidden from the US population!
Resist the early signs. Project 2025 is the blueprint for everything unfolding. The President of the Heritage Foundation admits they have 2 years to set things “right.” He knows this agenda is deeply unpopular, and Trump will likely lose control of Congress after.
How is this cutting costs? (their words, not mine) Seems like we're footing the bill now for room and board for people who were working and paying taxes.
Imagine if he didn't watch Fox television. Where on earth would he get his ideas? He certainly isn't as smart as he thinks he is or wants MAGA to believe he is. This is all going to come crashing down in an ugly heap of corruption and greed. Trump's new reality show is modelled on Squid Game.
When he says “the worst criminal illegal aliens”, these are people who have actually been convicted? Or is that just the way he refers to all immigrants? It seems like many people they are picking up are guilty primarily of being non-white and non-english speaking.
I thought he said 13 million? I'm confused. He usually does what he says. He froze the government spending. Check. ICE has detained a million people. Check. Egg' are now free. Check. Russia/Ukraine war ended last week. Check. Oh, and he shit his pants at breakfast. Check.
Looked it up. There are 680 beds in one area. You’d have to spend a lot of money to expand the camp. And hire Federal employees. This has the stench of Steven Miller all over it.
Our citizens will be the slaves. Just as Hitler never intended for the Jews to work for the Germans, neither did Trump the immigrants. Why do you think they're removing birth control and pushing US births?
Project 2025 discussed concentration camps. Opening one in Cuba out of reach is despicable
*correction: Hitler never intended for Jews and others to provide long-term labor. They were only useful as long as they were healthy and alive. Thrown away as trash once they could no longer work.
Several red states have already passed labor laws permitting children as young as 10 to work in factories, meat processing plants, & agriculture fields. Including full-time while they're still in school. They'll be replacing migrant workers. That's why they need more births. American slave labor.
Yes, I agree. Their pushing of education vouchers over public education allows the wealthy to use vouchers to attend the best schools, similar to what's happening in MS, as our public education systems collapses. There are many other pieces, but it all amounts to the same thing: American slavery
I’m sure that evil MOFO is making money off of this idea of creating concentration camps for undocumented people.
This is criminal and inhumane. We all MUST speak out now before it’s too late!
Earlier when he was trying to save face for the "freeze" I heard him say " ... Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, ever since I've been running FROM office ..."
Can somebody check that and, if so, post that part of the video?
We had about 15k during the Haitian crisis in the 90s.. and as a kid who had a parent stationed there -- that many people in a badly organized open air camp behind razor wire had left a lasting (very bad) impression.
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This is horrifying.
You sided with the GOP to pass that Act.
Now you own this.
Were your 30 pieces of collaboration silver worth it, Ruben?
What a fucking disaster.
Country to find a better life?! This will cost a fortune, doesn’t it need to go through the appropriation process?
👀👀👀👀👀
"a place where large numbers of people (such as prisoners of war, political prisoners, refugees, or the members of an ethnic or religious minority) are detained or confined under armed guard"
Dick traitor look.
"Patriots": He's a fascist! The most Nazi Nazi to ever Nazi!
Trump: *has a military escort when he announces concentration camps*
"Patriots":
Trump just copied it.
His weakness is the consent of his supporters. If they fall away he has nothing.
The military is obeying .. for now.
But if Trump crosses the line I hope they march his ass straight out of the WHouse.
"Nazi officials established the first concentration camp, Dachau, on March 22, 1933, for political prisoners. It was later used as a model for an expanded and centralized concentration camp system managed by the SS."
Everyone think they are a tough guy, until they meet one.
#fucktrump
$57,000,000 PER MONTH FOR AMERICAN TAXPAYERS TO PAY
Not communism.
It must be war.
Fascism must be destroyed.
Literally a giant dog pile of short-sighted idiots robbing their own pocketbooks.
Why else would they gut spending oversight committees, watchdogs, unions, ethics, etc 🫣
Colombia denying their PR stunt of flying 80 migrants (some who weren’t even Colombian citizens), was a quick barometer test of deportations plans.
They’re systematically testing the fences of democracy, alliances, norms, etc. If a policy doesn’t work, they back-peddle to other contingencies.
Gitmo is a Plan B, except away from public eyes & scrutiny.
It was so politicized that some Democrats were afraid to do the right thing.
The U.N. and Human Rights advocates must bring U.S. to international courts.
Here's your video👇
https://www.myvideohunter.com/prod/url/aHR0cHM6Ly9ic2t5LmFwcC9wcm9maWxlL2RpZDpwbGM6aXU0ajUzN2hveDVodWo0Yndud2d1YjR6L3Bvc3QvM2xndnFob3F0a3gyYQ==
If Trump reopens it, won't that stop the US from being able to criticize China over their treatment of Ungyer people in China?
Seems that was a big concern of ours just last year.
Guess your memo spells it out, specifically, so no need to wonder, now, eh??
Obama ran on getting them all out of Gitmo. That didn’t happen at all. Crickets.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/show/obama-failed-close-guantanamo
https://apnews.com/article/guantanamo-911-detainees-biden-trump-2216929adc77c376edef66290d781850
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/show/obama-failed-close-guantanamo
up a bunch of webcams aimed at Guantanamo?
On November 9 1938, the Night of Broken Glass, saw Jews rounded up, stripped of their property, & imprisoned in concentration camps. MAGA will be written into the history books as being pure evil!
✖️IG Firings, walked back
✖️ Federal Freeze Rescinded
✖️Birthright Citizenship blocked in Federal Courts
✖️Columbia Tariffs walked back
Ok, I’ll dig around for another impactful meme.👍🏻
30,000 people prisoner for an indefinite amount of time at Gitmo?
If he follows through US needs to face sanctions & be formally investigated for crimes against humanity
Gee, why are nations moving away from using the US dollar as reserve currency?
#Unfit
But a formal investigation might lead to a case brought by another nation before the ICJ
Trump would ignore ICJ ruling, but sanctions & USD losing reserve currency status would hurt
Trump is undermining the rule of law in the United States, sabotaging our economy & wants to create internment camps for foreign nationals in violation of international law.
His actions benefit BRICS nations including Russia & China. Gosh, what a surprise.
Let's be real, he/they are choosing this location for lack of oversight.
So instead of deportation, Trump wants to imprison people at Guantanamo Bay.
I guess until they are old & feeble or they die in captivity?
#Unfit #UnAmerican #ConcentrationCamps
There's exactly *ONE* place that checks all those boxes for the US today, and I don't see it as a coincidence *at all* that that *ONE place* is where Trump decided to build his giant 'migrant detention camp.'
* Entirely under military control
* Outside the country's formal borders
* Inaccessible to domestic citizens
* Close enough geographically to allow mass relocation of people there
(cont)
There's a reason the Nazis didn't build any death camps *in Germany*. They built concentration camps in Germany, but almost all of the actual... -
There's a reason Rs have won the popular vote for prez only 2X since 1988. Once was W in 2004, nation freaked after 9/11. And 2024...when "throw the bums out" happened all over the planet
The race is on in Trump's Project 2025 party to do as much irreversible damage as they can before the midterms.
He's ignoring the Constitution and he hasn't used his immunity yet.
https://bsky.app/profile/maxchch.bsky.social/post/3lbsh3v2ntk2d
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jun/13/what-is-our-future-the-nauru-detention-centre-was-empty-now-100-asylum-seekers-are-held-there
Have since the first Trump presidency.
Biden didn't do anything about them, either.
There is no reason for his concentration camps. Everyone is supposed to be deported.
What is really happening here?
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/trump-reverses-biden-order-eliminated-doj-contracts-private-prisons
That's not what we're discussing here.
"Trump Bergen-Belsen. Enjoy your stay."
Project 2025 discussed concentration camps. Opening one in Cuba out of reach is despicable
This is criminal and inhumane. We all MUST speak out now before it’s too late!
Can somebody check that and, if so, post that part of the video?
Again