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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsExclusive: 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 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.
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.
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
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Chemisse
(30,829 posts)1. Somebody is making a whole lot of money out of this.
Clearly food stamps must be cut to pay for it all.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)2. I don't doubt it
GOP love privately run prisons by their pals for $$$.
That's one reason why cannabis is still a class one narcotic and illegal in most states...$$$.
eShirl
(18,513 posts)3. military bases so states have no jurisdiction
wards of the commander in chief
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)5. A play toy for dictators
Immigrants first, libs next?
tblue37
(65,556 posts)4. Concentration camps. K&R for visibility. nt
MineralMan
(146,359 posts)6. 'Austere Camps' are 'Concentration Camps'
We're building concentration camps for migrants?