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workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 09:21 AM Jun 2018

Exclusive: Navy Document Shows Plan to Erect 'Austere' Detention Camps

By PHILIP ELLIOTT and W.J. HENNIGAN June 22, 2018

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 military’s task in implementing President Donald Trump’s “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 Secretary’s approval, signals how the military is anticipating its role in Trump’s 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.


http://time.com/5319334/navy-detainment-centers-zerol-tolerance-immigration-family-separation-policy/
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Exclusive: Navy Document Shows Plan to Erect 'Austere' Detention Camps (Original Post) workinclasszero Jun 2018 OP
Somebody is making a whole lot of money out of this. Chemisse Jun 2018 #1
I don't doubt it workinclasszero Jun 2018 #2
military bases so states have no jurisdiction eShirl Jun 2018 #3
A play toy for dictators workinclasszero Jun 2018 #5
Concentration camps. K&R for visibility. nt tblue37 Jun 2018 #4
'Austere Camps' are 'Concentration Camps' MineralMan Jun 2018 #6
 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
2. I don't doubt it
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 11:21 AM
Jun 2018

GOP love privately run prisons by their pals for $$$.

That's one reason why cannabis is still a class one narcotic and illegal in most states...$$$.

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