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This is step 1 in converting concentration camps into death camps.

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[–] Steve@startrek.website 36 points 7 months ago

So death camps.

[–] arin@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago

Concentration camps

[–] diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Has anyone actually made it out of these prisons and can explain what it’s like in there?

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Congressmembers have managed to inspect some. They don't provide medical care:

“The most frequent feedback we got was the inadequacy of the medical care they are receiving,” said Schiff. He described meeting a diabetic detainee who he said has not received treatment for her condition in two months. “That’s frightening,” he said.

A fair number of people do seem to be deported to other countries rather than die in the camps.. Officially, the number who died in ICE custody is 32 during 2025, but it's entirely possible that this number is an undercount. I will also note that ICE tends to deport people who are experiencing medical emergencies so that they die outside the US

[–] diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So you basically have about a 50/50 shot of making to another country or death. Not bad odds.

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Everyone always says “death TO America!”

Nobody ever says “death IN America!”

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago

People have made it out of the concentration camps.
Wait, do you mean alive? Then, no.

Whoops, did I say concentration camps? I meant death camps.

Welcome to the Nazied States of America.
If you are rich you've got nothing to worry about. If you are white and rich then you're living the(ir) american dream.
However, if you are part of the 95% of the population who are:

  • Not white.
  • Poor, or only think they are rich.
    Then you're fucked, but you probably just don't know it, due to the Gestapo not coming for you and your family yet.
[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

ICE is a terrorist organization

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 months ago

Remember, Anne Frank wasn't killed in a gas chamber. She died of typhus in the concentration camp. Letting disease run rampant in the camps is a form of genocide too.