If you didn't speak out because you're not a Venezuelan gang member, you really need to go back and reread that poem by Pastor Niemoller because you, or any of us, could be next.

SCOTUS ruled 5-4 this week that Trump could abduct & deport people to offshore gulags, incl US citizens.

SCOTUS Justice Sotomayor wrote:

The implication of the Government’s position is that not only noncitizens but also United States citizens could be taken off the streets, forced onto planes, and confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress if judicial review is denied unlawfully before removal. History is no stranger to such lawless regimes, but this Nation’s system of laws is designed to prevent, not enable, their rise.

Justice Jackson compared the ruling to the Korematsu decision of 1944, which upheld the internment of Japanese Americans.

Could US citizens really be disappeared to El Salvador?

Their fascist president, Nayib Bukele, stated that he was willing to imprison US citizens.

“I’m just following orders!”

I am appalled, alarmed, angry, and disgusted by the news about people being "disappeared" by #ICE and being taken to an El Salvador prison without their due process rights. We must stop the illegal deportations of #immigrants & #refugees with protected, green card, or other approved statuses in the US. The outrageous actions by #ICE to put these people in an El Salvador #GULAG - aka a #CONCENTRATIONCAMP -

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#ICE #concentrationcamp
Video: Tense scene including armored vehicke at Kamp Krome concentration camp protest

(video is silent, sent to me after liberation from FB, sound may not have cooperated)

On the 29th of March, protesters showed up at the infamous Kamp Krome concentration camp in Miami, FL. The various stormtroopers protecting this hellhole were apparently very displeased to see protesters. They even brought out an armored vehicle but protesters stood their ground. Although these armored vehicles are widely referred to as tanks, this is an MRAP (Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle) rather than a tank.

Kamp Krome is an ICE detention facility packed to over 4,000 people in a capacity rated for a few hundred. At least three people have died at Kamp Krome, food and even WATER are scarce for detainees there.

This is America

The Triumph of a Doctrine of Cruelty in El Salvador

“For three years El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele has proudly shown the world the terrible treatment given to the country's prisoners.

And now the U.S. is endorsing this view, sending hundreds of people removed from the U.S. to those same prisons.”

#deportation #cruelty #americandystopia #torture #concentrationcamp
#npr #podcast
(5 min)

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/state-of-the-world-from-npr/id1612459752?i=1000700808047