Holy. Fucking. Shit.
I previously posted an article from ProPublica titled the Children of Dilley. It featured an inside view of the Dilley concentration camp for families. I refuse to call it an internment camp, as the defenition of concentration camp fits much better:
As per Wikipedia:
A concentration camp is a prison or other facility used for the internment of political prisoners or politically targeted demographics, such as members of national or ethnic minority groups, on the grounds of national security, or for exploitation or punishment.
The article I posted was based on letters from detained children detailing the conditions they live in.
From the opening blurb to the letters:
ProPublica received letters in mid-January from several children at Dilley. All but two of them had been living in the United States when they were detained. In their words and drawings, they convey how much they ache for creature comforts and describe the anguish of being trapped. They write about missing their friends and teachers, falling behind at school, having unreliable access to medical care when they’re sick — some say they’re sick a lot — and feeling scared about what comes next.
This should be heartwrenching for each and every person that has even a slightest morcel of empathy in their body. The letters describe the gut-punching traumatisation of children who long for normality. So of course any person reading these letters would strive to make the conditions of those children better, or even just a little more tolerable if it would be in their power to do so, right?
Guess again.
Reports came in of ICE staff carrying out raids on the dormitories of those children and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters and drawings made by them. (1) - (2)
For the people in the back:
Nothing will be done, the outrage will be contained until the next depraved deed of unadultered disdain of human life will be dangled in front of a people sliding deeper into a neo-fascist vortex seemingly harder to get out.
Anyway, here’s a random wikipedia article.
And here is a random truism by the great Jenny Holzer, of whom I wrote an article last week:
Awful Punishment Awaits Really Bad People
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