• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    21 hours ago

    For context: The average maximum security prison is 800-1200 people, and the largest, at 8300, is in Angola, LA. That has been sufficient for the most incarcerated nation in America. But MAGA thinks we need to imprison even more.

    Everybody seems to have forgotten that one of Trump’s first Executive Orders was the construction of a 30,000 bed facility in Guantanamo Bay.

    Expanding Migrant Operations Center at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay to Full Capacity

    Trump to prepare facility at Guantanamo for 30,000 migrants

    And the $250 million contract has been awarded:

    Constellis Announces $249 Million Construction Contract at U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

    Work is currently on progress, and slated to end in 2029, for the next president, I presume.

    They’ve been deporting people as fast as they can catch them, and yet they are building facilities all over America, and now this giant one in Guantanamo Bay. If they are deporting people, who do they plan on putting there? The official answer was high profile illegal immigrant criminals, whose home countries couldn’t be trusted to hold them, but there can’t be that many of those people.

    So who do they plan holding there, far from the prying eyes of family, lawyers, courts, and especially the media?

    And what happens a few years down the line, when nearly all immigrants have been removed? What are they going to do with the richest agency in the government? What are they going to do with all those massive concentration camps? Close them down, and give back the money? Or find a new boogeyman to utilize those resources?