ICE plans mega-concentration camps.

[michael_w_busch@mastodon.online]

@heidilifeldman

My most recent information is that ICE has been blocked from building a prison camp in Shakopee; after local, state, and federal electeds rightly objected and the public pressured the real estate developers involved into backing out: https://bsky.app/profile/dbrauer.net/post/3md6hhv5x422s

[millertimegarage@c.im]

@dashrb @heidilifeldman
Saw an item a few minutes ago the Jimmy Patterson is not selling the property.

[dashrb@mstdn.social]

@MillerTimeGarage @heidilifeldman that’s awesome news!

[dashrb@mstdn.social]

@MillerTimeGarage @heidilifeldman here’s an article about it — I know it’s in other threads but if you’re reading here first, this is the story:

Jim Pattison won't sell U.S. warehouse proposed as new ICE facility | CBC News

Jim Pattison Developments has announced it will not sell an industrial building in Ashland, Va., that was set to be turned into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) processing facility.

CBC (www.cbc.ca)

[czarbucks@vmst.io]

@heidilifeldman

The more I think about this, the more I think organizing an ongoing protest would be fairly easy to do, and could add in many of the visitors to the area.

It's not that far from the parks, and right off of the Beeline for anyone going from Orlando to the eastern beaches.

It's not like their freaking Alcatraz, this is right near all the tourist destinations.

And freaking Daniel Webster... I thought we'd gotten rid of him.

[yoshi@toot.community]

@heidilifeldman This is good. The camps will be needed when MAGAmoron, his criminal cult, all the MAGAt supporters and all their MAGAt families are rounded up.

[0xfeedc0fe@infosec.exchange]

@heidilifeldman here's a related WaPo article that includes addresses https://archive.ph/ZOFbz

some additional context about Hagerstown:
the city is often described as a blue city surrounded by a deep red county. Washington County was host to "The People's Convoy" during the pandemic lockdowns https://wjla.com/news/local/two-more-truck-convoystruck-convoy-protest-dc-maryland-virginia-what-we-know-covid-19-vaccine-mandates-protest-peoples-american-truckers-freedom-canada

also, the region has longstanding ties to the KKK:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1999/07/15/12-hate-groups-found-in-md/b06df6a8-c078-4679-9a55-c293314b254c/ (https://archive.ph/ipvkr)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1985/11/10/klan-gains-higher-visibility-in-md/8a881d4e-19ab-414f-b4a5-ee4a4bd1a9fc/ (https://archive.ph/yTCWz)
https://www.whilbr.org/AlleganyAfricanAmericans/Ku-Klux-Klan-in-Oakland-1925-Maryland
https://www.whilbr.org/AlleganyAfricanAmericans/Ku-Klux-Klan-at-Cumberland-station
https://www.whilbr.org/AlleganyAfricanAmericans/KKK-Rally-Cumberland-2014
https://cnsmaryland.org/2017/09/28/historically-black-ken-gar-community-celebrates-125th-anniversary/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1991/11/16/the-fire-of-the-grand-dragon/e9ff5ad3-38eb-4a77-954f-31a2d8dc0b8f/ (https://archive.ph/NyjPV)

[npars01@mstdn.social]

@apriloq @heidilifeldman

Fund Fascism and...
https://abcnews.go.com/US/top-private-prison-companies-profits-amid-administrations-immigration/story?id=124591009

... find out.
The lawsuits in the coming years should bankrupt these private prisons, hopefully.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-30/prison-stocks-tumble-with-ice-backlash-stoking-business-angst

One of the reasons why CoreCivic & Geo Corp maxed out their campaign contributions to Trump's corrupt GOP...

... a plan to copy Alabama:

1. Deny bail, parole, restitution, or early release programs

"Too dangerous to release, but fine to work at McDonald's, unpaid."

In Alabama, work release for incarcerated people more common than you might think

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Margie Mason, investigative reporter at the AP, about the alleged exploitation and abuse of the prison labor force in Alabama.

NPR (www.npr.org)

1/

[npars01@mstdn.social]

2/

No free economy can compete with slave labor.

Republican billionaire bigots want a return of serfdom, slavery, & Jim Crow.

Attention Required! | Cloudflare

(www.epi.org)

2. Convert prisons into profit centers for GOP donors
https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investigation-c6f0eb4747963283316e494eadf08c4e

Was Your Food Grown In a Prison? Incarcerated Workers Help Produce Many Popular Brands.

Incarcerated workers help produce some of America’s most popular food brands, but get few of the benefits and protections afforded to others.

The Marshall Project (www.themarshallproject.org)

Picking vegetables for GOP donors.

Prison Labor Boosts Wal-Mart’s Profits Despite Pledge | Prison Legal News

(www.prisonlegalnews.org)

China's "re-education camps" & Putin's gulags...

3. Prison labor goes from incarceration to a corrupt convict leasing scheme.

Convict leasing - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

The Convict Leasing System: Slavery in its Worst Aspects | Inside Adams

Much of the country’s infrastructure was built on convict leasing, read about some of its history.

The Library of Congress (blogs.loc.gov)

[npars01@mstdn.social]

3/

Making running shoes like a political prisoner in a gulag.

US prison workers produce $11bn worth of goods and services a year for pittance

New report by American Civil Liberties Union says incarcerated laborers are either poorly compensated or not at all

the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

Penal labor in the United States - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

Slavery by Another Name
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_by_Another_Name

Republicans do absolutely nothing in office except enrich their donors at everyone else's expense.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/private-prison-companies-enormous-windfall-who-stands-gain-ice-expands

Private prisons see record revenue growth under Trump administration's immigration surge

Two of the nation's biggest operators of private immigrant detention centers are announcing major revenue growth.

Scripps News (www.scrippsnews.com)

The public corruption is the worst it's been in a century.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/06/trump-arrest-immigrants-private-prisons

[huntingdon@mstdn.social]

@heidilifeldman

Bloomberg, too, needs a new headline writer. ICE is not spending millions on **warehouses.** It's buying and building prisons for people who should never be in one.

[tlariv@mastodon.cloud]

@heidilifeldman
That's why they're putting the one for Chicago in Indiana and the one for Boston in NH.

[hans@kirche.social]

@heidilifeldman

"mega-concentration-camps"

Übersetzung:
Mega-Konzentrationslager

Das "triggert" gewaltig!

Dazu Hintergrund:

Hans (@Hans@kirche.social)

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kirche.social (kirche.social)

[0xfeedc0fe@infosec.exchange]

@heidilifeldman more addresses from https://projectsaltbox.substack.com/p/breaking-dhs-purchases-hagerstown

[accordionbruce@mastodon.social]

@heidilifeldman
Dachau was opened in 1933 with 300 prisoners
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachau_concentration_camp
#ICE #fascism

[dashdsrdash@tilde.zone]

@heidilifeldman @steter

Merrimack's town government sent them a letter saying No, thanks.

[guillotine_jones@beige.party]

@heidilifeldman
Poor towns all?

[pedrobizbikedu@mastodon.world]

@heidilifeldman @benroyce They are not building ‘prisons’ (which would imply due process had been followed) nor ‘warehouses’ (because they’re not storing commodities or goods), they’re building good old fashioned concentration camps. Doubtless the main objections will come from the NIMBYs.

[hadon@mastodon.social]

@heidilifeldman

Instead of buying warehouses, they should be paying their debts:

MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@MAKS23@mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 image 🇺🇳🇺🇸 The UN is facing financial collapse due to non-payment of contributions by member states, Secretary-General Guterres said. As of the end of 2025, the arrears on contributions had reached a record $1.57 billion. The Secretary-General warned that the UN could run out of funds by July. Currently, the US debt is $2.19 billion to the organization’s regular budget, $1.88 billion for active peacekeeping missions and another $528 million for past operations.

Mastodon (mastodon.social)

[paulschoe@mastodon.world]

@WastelandWandrr

But first ' Arbeit macht Frei'.

Benefiting from the free labor in the American prison system.

#ICE #Camps #WorkCamps #Trump #GOP

@heidilifeldman