Open Letter to Tech Companies: Protect Your Users From Lawless #DHS #Subpoenas

We are calling on technology companies like #Meta and #Google to stand up for their users by resisting the Department of #Homeland Security's (DHS) lawless administrative subpoenas for user data.

In the past year, DHS has consistently targeted people engaged in #FirstAmendment activity
#privacy #ice #security

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/open-letter-tech-companies-protect-your-users-lawless-dhs-subpoenas

Open Letter to Tech Companies: Protect Your Users From Lawless #DHS #Subpoenas

We are calling on technology companies like #Meta and #Google to stand up for their users by resisting the Department of #Homeland Security's (DHS) lawless administrative subpoenas for user data.

In the past year, DHS has consistently targeted people engaged in #FirstAmendment activity
#privacy #ice #security

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/open-letter-tech-companies-protect-your-users-lawless-dhs-subpoenas

I don't think this horrifying January 20th article on Popular Information broke into the mainstream media much at the time, but given the news that the Trump regime is turbocharging its efforts to build concentration camps out of warehouses and military bases all around the country, it probably should have.

In the simplest possible terms, ICE is now denying medical coverage to thousands of detainees, and regardless of the reasons why that is happening (more below) this depraved indifference to human life inside what we have already established are concentration camps, is eerily reminiscent of the process that lead the actual Nazi Reich in Germany to conduct the Holocaust.

https://popular.info/p/ice-has-stopped-paying-for-detainee

ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment

"Under the law, ICE is required to provide necessary medical care for this population.

While ICE employs some of its own medical staff, it often uses third-party providers. ICE’s Buffalo Federal Detention Facility, for example, houses over 500 detainees and has no doctor or dentist on staff.

ICE, however, has not paid any third-party providers for medical care for detainees since October 3, 2025. Last week, ICE posted a notice on an obscure government website announcing it will not begin processing such claims until at least April 30, 2026. Until then, medical providers are instructed “to hold all claims submissions.”

ICE’s failure to pay its bills for months has caused some medical providers to deny services to ICE detainees, an administration source, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press, told Popular Information. In other cases, detainees have allegedly been denied essential medical care by ICE."

If you read the entire story, you'll discover that this situation likely arose out of another manufactured outrage promoted by fascists both inside and outside the GOP; specifically the idea that having Veteran Affairs process medical services claims for ICE (which ICE paid them for in full) amounted to "robbing veterans to pay off" migrants. That is however not exculpatory for either ICE or the larger Trump administration, because deciding to stuff people into concentration camps and then refusing to provide them necessary, in some cases even life-saving medical care, because of a manufactured political scandal, is still deciding to lock people in concentration camps and let them fucking die.

To paraphrase Toni Morrison, the reason the Nazis called what we now know as the Holocaust, the "final solution" is because they tried a bunch of other things before that to solve the "problem" of Jewish people existing inside Nazi-controlled territory. One of those "solutions" was absolutely purposely making life in the concentration and labor camps impossible to sustain - in other words, murdering Jewish people and other folks inside the camps through intentional neglect. I'm pretty sure it's not any sort of accident at all, that Trump, Miller, Noem and other assorted literal fucking white supremacist nazis in this administration and the larger Homeland Security aparatus, are copying from Hitler and Himmler's most evil playbook.

#Fascism #ConcentrationCamps #ICE #Murder #Trump #GOP #KristiNoem #StephenMiller #FinalSolution #MurderByNeglect

#BayArea protestors join criticism of #Palantir over #ICE contract

https://www.calonews.com/featured-topics/science-technology/bay-area-protestors-join-criticism-of-palantir-over-ice-contract/article_16befb89-868a-41ea-9b6a-243bb074a428.html

> #SANFRANCISCO — Bay Area activists are rallying against Palantir Technologies, the data analytics firm co-founded by billionaire investor Peter #Thiel. The moves are part of Americans’ growing outrage over immigration enforcement following the fatal shooting of two US citizens in January.

Hundreds of Students Walk out of San Marcos, #SantaBarbara High Schools to Protest #ICE

https://www.independent.com/2026/02/10/hundreds-of-students-walk-out-of-san-marcos-santa-barbara-high-schools-to-protest-ice/

> Tuesday’s walkouts add to the string of rallies, marches, and vigils staged around the community in recent weeks.

Y'all, since Donald Trump took office, #DHS / #ICE #LaMigra have created so much detention space that it is double the amount of penitentiary space in the entire country.

My pocket friends, I believe that ICE isn't about immigration; ICE is a paramilitary enforcing a christofascist nation state, and the ethnic/political/religious cleansing is about to begin.

The secret police have all the data the government has ever collected, and that's a lot, but they also have access to #palantir which has ALL the data.

They are the panopticon. And they're coming to a school zone near you.

https://www.wired.com/story/ice-expansion-across-us-at-heres-where-its-going-next/

#ICE officer fired gun in Morris County, #NJ attorney general says

https://gothamist.com/news/ice-officer-fired-gun-in-morris-county-nj-attorney-general-says

> New Jersey officials say they’re investigating after an ICE officer discharged a firearm in Roxbury Township.

#ICE increasingly targeting #Minnesota immigrants with active work permits

https://sahanjournal.com/immigration/ice-targets-immigrants-with-work-permits/

> ICE agents knocked on Wilmer Andrade’s door claiming a warrant for his arrest. He has a work permit, a pending visa application and no final order of removal. In Operation Metro Surge, people like him are targets.

#Vermont - 11 arrested during #ICE protest at Williston business park

https://vtdigger.org/2026/02/10/11-arrested-during-ice-protest-at-williston-business-park/

> A group of older adults were arrested Monday during a civil disobedience action in the Williston office park that houses a large digital surveillance office run by U.S. #Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

#Houston ISD students join statewide walkouts protesting #ICE amid threat of school penalties

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/education-news/2026/02/10/543091/houston-isd-students-join-statewide-walkouts-protesting-ice-amid-threat-of-school-penalties/?utm_source=rss-education-news-article&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=hpm-rss-link

> While chanting “ICE off our streets, ICE off our streets,” several students said they were there to call attention to the treatment of immigrants under the Trump Administration.

@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes

"Concentration camps for migrants, can just as easily be concentration camps for anyone the Trump regime wants to dispose of for any reason at all."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-29/us-spends-hundreds-of-millions-on-warehouses-for-ice-detention-centers

#quotes
#America
#US
#ICE
#ConcentrationCamps

Ever notice that the pro-life republicans and their tangerine dictator love throwing kids into detention centers (concentration camps) while depriving them of medical treatment and needed medicines?

#detentioncenters #ice #republicans #immigration #trump #medical #stephenmiller #news #worldnews #concentrationcamps #america #prolife #MAGA

Report: One #ICE facility to expand, two more to be established in #Michigan

https://michiganadvance.com/briefs/report-one-ice-facility-to-expand-two-more-to-be-established-in-michigan/

> Three Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities are expanding or being established in Michigan, according to federal records obtained by WIRED in a new report released Tuesday.

#Arizona leaders demand answers regarding incoming #ICE facility in Surprise

https://www.calonews.com/arizona/arizona-leaders-demand-answers-regarding-incoming-ice-facility-in-surprise/article_7791110c-cd12-4168-a6eb-48400411e5e7.html

> From U.S. senators and representatives to the state's attorney general, many have written to the #DHS challenging the proposed immigration processing facility.

For #Indigenous Americans it's unthinkable, but true. #ICE is arresting, detaining Native Americans.

https://idahocapitalsun.com/2026/02/10/for-indigenous-americans-its-unthinkable-but-true-ice-is-arresting-detaining-native-americans/

> People with Indigenous ancestry – once again – are being made to feel less than full citizens when their only ‘crime’ is that their ancestors were in this country prior to European settlement

Naturally, if you're going to start sprouting up concentration camps all over the country, while mass arresting more migrants and your political opponents to fill them, you're going to need Gestapo forces and administrators all over the United States of America too; and the buildings to house them. So I guess you won't be shocked to learn that the Trump administration, DHS, and ICE are currently going about acquiring space all over the country to do just that, right?

https://www.commondreams.org/news/ice-dhs-expansion-plans

Amid Secretive Expansion, Leaked Docs Reveal Locations of New ICE Facilities Nationwide

"Overall, Wired reported on Tuesday, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS)—which includes Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)—has been aggressively expanding its footprint across the country, with “more than 150 leases and office expansions” that “have or would place new facilities in nearly every state, many of them in or just outside of the country’s largest metropolitan areas.”

Quite frankly, I could have put this store in our "DHS is doing ethnic cleansing" thread, because as the article goes on to note, these new ICE facilities are being embedded directly in major metropolitan areas, and next to locations the Gestapo is already targeting - like schools, mosques, and hospitals or childcare facilities. As the author of the original Wired report noted:

“The leasing plans give a clear picture of where ICE is going next in the US: Everywhere,” the report concluded."

I chose to put it here in the concentration camp thread however, because I think when taken together with ICE's plans to build a nation-wide gulag system for migrants and dissenters they call "terrorists," a very clear picture of how exactly the Trumpenreich fascist dictatorship will be created is emerging. A while back I wrote an article on NIDC predicting that the massive DHS and ICE funding in Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill would facilitate the transformation of those agencies from Trump's Gestapo, into his Schutzstaffel, or SS because the militarization of these forces would allow the Swine Emperor to effectively occupy the United States militarily under a semi-permanent state of martial law.

(You can find that article here, if you care: https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/07/28/a-schutzstaffel-of-his-own/ )

Taken together, this massive influx of funding to build concentration camps all around the country, combined with ICE's intention to embed itself directly in our urban areas nationwide, sure do look an awful lot like a permanent fascist military occupation of America to me.

#ICE #DHS #Gestapo #MartialLaw #Trump #PorkReich #Schutzstaffel #MilitaryOccupation #OccupiedAmerica #GOP #USPol

Ever notice that the pro-life republicans and their tangerine dictator love throwing kids into detention centers (concentration camps) while depriving them of medical treatment and needed medicines?

#detentioncenters #ice #republicans #immigration #trump #medical #stephenmiller #news #worldnews #concentrationcamps #america #prolife #MAGA

"But wait," I hear you saying. "Even with 23 new concentration camps, and 150,000 beds, that's still not enough capacity to do either Trump's ethnic cleansing operation, or the regime's plan to start locking up its political opponents." That may be so, but would if surprise you to learn that the Trump administration is also working with the Navy to create at least six more tent city style concentration camps, and the capacity to literally sprout new ones anywhere they like?

https://www.commondreams.org/news/military-contract-concentration-camps

US Military Helping Trump to Build Massive Network of ‘Concentration Camps,’ Navy Contract Reveals

“This $45 billion increase, published just weeks ago, converts the US into a ‘geographic region’ for expeditionary military-style detention,” he wrote. “It signals a massive, long-term escalation in the government’s capacity to pay for detention and deportation logistics. In the world of federal contracting, it is the difference between a temporary surge and a permanent infrastructure.”

He says the use of the military funding mechanism is meant to disburse funds quickly, without the typical bidding war among contractors, which would typically create a period of public scrutiny. Using the Navy contract means that new projects can be created with “task orders,” which can be turned around almost immediately, when “specific dates and locations are identified” by DHS.

“It means the infrastructure is currently a ‘ghost’ network that can be materialized anywhere in the US the moment a site is picked,” Manríquez wrote.

Amid its push to deport 1 million people each year, the White House has said it needs to dramatically increase the scale of its detention apparatus to add more beds for those who are arrested. But Manríquez said documents suggest “this isn’t just about bed space; it’s about the rapid deployment of self-contained cities.”

So much of the good dirt in this article stems from the reporting of Pablo Manríquez from Migrant Insider, who in turn is working from actual government contract information; so this is definitely real. As the report notes, the Navy currently has about 55B dollars set aside to fund this nightmare, so in addition to the six 10K person-sized, tent city concertation camps expected to be built in Louisiana, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Utah, and Kansas, they're also creating the infrastructure and capacity to build many more such camps anywhere the federal government wants to, provided they own the land.

If you want to know what a Trump regime program to create a gulag complex for migrants, trans people, and anyone left of Otto von Bismarck, might look like - this is pretty much what it would look like.

#Fascism #ConcentrationCamps #ICE #DHS #USNavy #Trump #EthnicCleansing #Gestapo #WhiteNationalism #Gulags

"Every choice to fund authoritarianism over care is a tax on our collective wellbeing and souls—a tax that buys nothing but cruelty, instability, and the slow dismantling of American values. We’re not just losing healthcare and research funding. We’re losing any pretensions of decency."

#Trump #KristiNoem #StephenMiller #DHS #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #violence #deportations #warehouses #detention
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