Exclusive: Navy Document Shows Plan to Erect 'Austere' Detention Camps
Source: TIME Magazine
By PHILIP ELLIOTT and W.J. HENNIGAN 2:31 PM EDT
The U.S. Navy is preparing plans to construct sprawling detention centers for tens of thousands of immigrants on remote bases in California, Alabama and Arizona, escalating the militarys task in implementing President Donald Trumps zero tolerance policy for people caught crossing the Southern border, according to a copy of a draft memo obtained by TIME.
The internal document, drafted for the Navy Secretarys approval, signals how the military is anticipating its role in Trumps immigration crackdown. The planning document indicates a potential growing military responsibility in an administration caught flat-footed in having to house waves of migrants awaiting civilian criminal proceedings.
The Navy memo outlines plans to build temporary and austere tent cities to house 25,000 migrants at abandoned airfields just outside the Florida panhandle near Mobile, Alabama, at Navy Outlying Field Wolf in Orange Beach, Alabama, and nearby Navy Outlying Field Silverhill.
The memo also proposes a camp for as many as 47,000 people at former Naval Weapons Station Concord, near San Francisco; and another facility that could house as many as 47,000 people at Camp Pendleton, the Marines largest training facility located along the Southern California coast. The planning memo proposes further study of housing an undetermined number of migrants at the Marine Corps Air Station near Yuma, Arizona.
Read more: http://time.com/5319334/navy-detainment-centers-zerol-tolerance-immigration-family-separation-policy/
AlexSFCA
(6,139 posts)it keeps getting worse
haele
(12,659 posts)and doesn't have documents readily available when confronted on the street.
According to these plans, I'm counting a potential 200K+ people in detention at these places. And they'll probably call it a "jobs" program for sociopaths, incels, and other deplorables that most employers don't want to hire for any length of time.
Haele
calimary
(81,304 posts)He wanted the immigrants from Norway.
haele
(12,659 posts)They came from Finland somewhere around 1900. My great-grandmother still spoke Sami and Swedish more fluently than she did English in the 1960's when I last saw her.
Many of my Latino neighbors still have accents and speak fluent Mexican dialects, even when they and their parents, grandparents and great-grandparents were born in the U.S. They do so because half of their extended familia is still across the border:
They and their families have lived in the region for centuries. They never crossed the border, the border crossed them...
Haele
calimary
(81,304 posts)Your last paragraph is IT.
They never crossed the border. The border crossed them.
onetexan
(13,041 posts)First they come for the illegal iimigrants....
BumRushDaShow
(129,080 posts)Or maybe we should call them "FEMA Camps®".
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)must be loving the crap out of this. They didn't sign up for illegal babysitting.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)pecosbob
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Duppers
(28,125 posts)👍
Ztolkins
(429 posts)Except...real. And apparently A O fucking Kay.
God, these people suck.
Still waiting for Alex Jones to show outrage over this one.
Ztolkins
(429 posts)Well..a lot of bullshit actually.
Judi Lynn
(160,542 posts)That would be the finest complement anyone could pay him.
It all goes downhill after that.
sandensea
(21,636 posts)Whatever else can be said about Alex Jones, he's got a great voice and is a talented narrator (or was, before the cocaine baked him out of his skull).
He should have stuck to the theater, instead of becoming a fascist carnival barker. He would've probably been a success, and would have left something positive behind instead.
Sad, as Trump would say.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,484 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)to The Hague. If there was an actual war, they'd be war criminals.
And even without a war, they are still war criminals (by definition).
47,000 people in just one location!! It's clear they intend to imprison
more than just immigrants. Many more.
Freethinker65
(10,023 posts)bench scientist
(1,107 posts)This administration would fuck up a 2 car funeral.
msongs
(67,413 posts)11cents
(1,777 posts)Oh hell no.
Perseus
(4,341 posts)The military, all branches of it, are being complicit by carrying out the whims of the man-child, and this is very dangerous, citizens cannot fight the military, they have too much power, that is how Hugo Chavez and other dictators were able to solidify their power and make a mess of the countries where they ruled.
I warned a while back about the changes in the constitution, now the administration is trying to change government, and the constitution will be next, they are paving the way for "infinite reelections", and ok if you don't believe it, but that will come next.
They will be cheating in November, I don't know what the democrats are doing to prepare for it and avoid the cheating, but God forbid they remain the majority, it will be very difficult to rewind all the crap they have already accomplished. Also, wait for medical exchange programs where Russians start sending "doctors" or other "technical" labour to the USA...I wish there was a way to wake up the deplorable because they will suffer as well, they will only understand they have been used as pawns when it is too late.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)https://www.prwatch.org/news/2017/03/13229/koch-brothers-bankroll-constitutional-convention
47of74
(18,470 posts)bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)120,000 people, my god.
Grins
(7,217 posts)25,000 migrants alone on the Florida panhandle near Mobile, Alabama...and if Harvey-level hurricane should hit...?
What then?
allnews
(244 posts)AlexSFCA
(6,139 posts)these facilities are likely for potentially hundreds of thousands undocumented folks from the US. trump is a commander in chief and has more power over miitary than over anything else. no wonder he needed increased military budget. The alliance is no doubt well coordinated with putin.
yonder
(9,666 posts)then it would be safe to say the post-hurricane treatment for detainees would be far worse.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)pazzyanne
(6,556 posts)We, the American taxpayer, are paying for this! We will have our medicare and social security cut, social programs cut, health care cut, environmental safegards cut, relationships with our longtime allies, cut, and the list goes on and on. Don't know about you, but I object to my tax dollar being used for these draconian practices by the Republicans. Just give tRump a chance. Well, we did and this is what we got for doing that. Time to take back our country, in fact it is long past time.
Duppers
(28,125 posts)These folks into gas chambers too?
They are SICK.
Jedi Guy
(3,193 posts)I'd like to think these things, because I believe most people are fundamentally decent human beings, despite our political differences. I'd like to think these things... but I'm having a harder and harder time convincing myself to believe these things. It's comforting to think that Americans are wiser than this, because within living memory are people who witnessed the horror of camps like the ones our government is building now. But here we are, building them anyway.
This is a very dangerous time for America. The fact that so many of Trump's supporters have turned a blind eye to his lies and manipulations makes it hard to believe that they'd put the brakes on when Trump went Too Far. The fact is that he's gone Too Far already, over and over again, and their only response has been "Yeehaw, faster!" So would they blink at the wholesale slaughter of undocumented immigrants? I... really don't know, anymore.
And once that happens, we're screwed, because the camps are there and waiting for "enemies of the state" which here means "anyone Trump points the mob towards." If they're okay with gassing people, they'll be okay with gassing more people, for different reasons.
This is legit terrifying.
Cold War Spook
(1,279 posts)my parents talking about how thankful they were that we lived in America and not Germany. We no longer live in America.
zentrum
(9,865 posts)Turbineguy
(37,338 posts)After the election, the RWNJ's will need a place to stay.
samnsara
(17,622 posts)samnsara
(17,622 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,608 posts)There are a lot of fires there. In 2003 a huge fire almost burned through the govt land to the ocean. They also make their own back fires and controlled burns. The area is huge and right on the ocean, prime real estate.
Howard Dean was just on Ari Melber and they were discussing this issue. He said that Congress must approve all the money needed to pay for building these camps. Is Congress going to do that? Midterms are coming and the fake prez just said he won't sign anything they produce as far as immigration goes.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,608 posts)they will probably be safer than the average resident in the area. The marines have a ton of man power that can be deployed in a few minutes and they have a lot of fire fighting equipment and water and fire retardent dropping planes, etc.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Delmette2.0
(4,166 posts)This can't be a legal order to protect the security of this country.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)Toorich
(391 posts)...What the fuck!?!?....I've been in Yuma in July... is it their goddamned plan to cook the babies in the sun
before feeding them to the hogs?
moonseller66
(430 posts)Railroad cattle cars come to mind. Good money for the 'roads. Maybe even bring back the Iron Horses and power them with coal.
This time cattle cars with windows for air conditioning so the Media and assholes on the Right can tell us things aren't really so bad!
And if that isn't economically worthy, does anyone remenber Bataan? I bet the WH does!
We need pictures and names of all the Trump supporters to be used against them after November 2018 and 2020.
This is what happens when one party decides to go "high" because "we don't want to be like them." When one party is so afraid of the "image" it would get in the Right Wing Owned Press, this is the eventual result.
We need a politicide: the removal of politicians from National, State and Local position through massive voting and/or any legal means.
The time is soon coming when it will be too late to do anything about this POS in office along with his enablers.
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Dan
(3,568 posts)Little ones today,
Browns one too..
But it will not end.
If we lose the midterms,
I do thing that the GOP
Will allow another fair election
And Trump will not leave office.
My thoughts.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)I just lost it.
If there is actually a fair election in November I will eat my..... socks.
In fact if there is even an election, I will fast for 4 days.
jpak
(41,758 posts)Will they be evacuated?
or Puerto Ricoed?
Stuart G
(38,434 posts)orangecrush
(19,571 posts)We're next.
Bet on it.
First they came for immigrant children...
ck4829
(35,077 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)And they will be coming for liberal democrats sooner or later.
Homer Wells
(1,576 posts)For this piece of crap Supreme leader to propose a "FINAL SOLUTION.
Shouldn't be too far over the horizon.
Cold War Spook
(1,279 posts)is it possible in any way to know who votes for who? If there is, those concentration camps are going to get a lot bigger.