"The warehouse plan would be the next step in President Donald Trump’s campaign to detain and deport
millions of immigrants, which began with a scramble to expand the nation’s immigrant detention system,
the largest in the world. Armed with $45 billion Congress set aside for locking up immigrants,
his administration this year revived dormant prisons, repurposed sections of military bases
and partnered with Republican governors to build immigrant tent encampments in remote regions."
"'It’s dehumanizing,' said Tania Wolf, an advocate with the National Immigration Project who is based
in New Orleans — about one hour south from the site of a planned warehouse in Hammond, Louisiana.
'You’re treating people, for lack of a better term, like cattle.'"
"ICE held more than 68,000 people at the beginning of this month, agency data shows, the highest number
on record.
Nearly half, or 48 percent of these people, have no criminal convictions or pending criminal charges, ICE data shows."
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"Ninety-three years ago, in March 1933, the Nazis established their first concentration camp
in what is now Dachau, Poland. Other camps were soon established in Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen."
"Initially, the Nazi’s put into these camps Communists, Social Democrats, trade unionists,
and others deemed a threat to the Nazi regime."
"After the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10, 1938, approximately 30,000 Jewish men
were arrested and sent to these camps in a mass, large-scale action that targeted them for being Jewish.
The systematic mass murder of Jews in camps designed as extermination camps did not begin
until late 1941 and early 1942, as part of the 'Final Solution.'"
"The U.S. began forcibly moving Japanese Americans into America’s own camps in early 1942,
following President Roosevelt's signing of Executive Order 9066 of February 19, 1942,
which authorized military exclusion zones. Initial roundups of Japanese Americans,
deemed 'enemy aliens,' started immediately after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941."
"Around 120,000 people of Japanese descent, mostly U.S. citizens from the West Coast,
were incarcerated in ten camps in remote inland states and temporary Assembly Centers.
Hundreds more were imprisoned in Hawaii."
"Once dehumanization begins, it’s hard to end."