Originally published at: Trump Wants to Build Massive New Detention Centers. States Are Blocking Their Construction. - TPM – Talking Points Memo
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. Last week, ICE released its own inspection report on Camp East Montana, the detention facility in Texas that has become a symbol of the administration’s overfunded, overcrowded, underregulated mass detention project — where prior reporting revealed that staff bet on which detainee might…
States fighting back. Great post.
Of course, this all has nothing to do with detention for legitimate reasons. Anyone over the age of 12 knows that the facility is leased way over fair mkt prices, then the landlord gives large kickbacks to the trumpians.
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Yes they are. Lots of people are fighting back. At every level. Day in and day out.
Unfortunately, that doesn’t sell nearly as well as panic. Or doom-posting. Or cynical hip.
There’s plenty of encouraging pushback – but that’s not what social media or journalism sell.
(And we’re all less for it.)
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