Thread by @RachelMcGonagi1

Do you feel it?

It's everywhere, permeating our consciousness.

We're at a turning point. A crossroads.

➡️ We can keep the status quo, let #ConcentrationCamps multiply on US soil, deaths pile up, we KNOW where it leads.

↩️ Or we change direction, take the less traveled path.

@ifindkarma @jomareewade @B52Malmet @DemocracyStorm @funder @ProudResister @docrocktex26 @AdamParkhomenko @TrinityResists @Amy_Siskind Don't you know
They're talkin' 'bout a revolution
It sounds like a whisper
And finally the tables are starting to turn

#NoKidsInCages #NoConcentrationCamps

@ifindkarma @jomareewade @B52Malmet @DemocracyStorm @funder @ProudResister @docrocktex26 @AdamParkhomenko @TrinityResists @Amy_Siskind It didn't start with gas chambers.

#NoKidsInCages #NoConcentrationCamps #LestWeForget

https://twitter.com/TrinityResists/status/1135276199217733632?s=20

@ifindkarma @jomareewade @B52Malmet @DemocracyStorm @funder @ProudResister @docrocktex26 @AdamParkhomenko @TrinityResists @Amy_Siskind The American CBP #ConcentrationCamp thread:

#DonnaConcentrationCamp #ElPasoConcentrationCamp

https://twitter.com/RachelMcGonagi1/status/1124383697363357696?s=20

@ifindkarma @jomareewade @B52Malmet @DemocracyStorm @funder @ProudResister @docrocktex26 @AdamParkhomenko @TrinityResists @Amy_Siskind Pictures from the American #ConcentrationCamps last month.

#DonnaConcentrationCamp #ElPasoConcentrationCamp

@ifindkarma @jomareewade @B52Malmet @DemocracyStorm @funder @ProudResister @docrocktex26 @AdamParkhomenko @TrinityResists @Amy_Siskind Rather than go back to releasing migrant children to their families & sponsors who already live in the states and are waiting for them with open arms, ORR is going to detain MORE children.

Newest Children's #ConcentrationCamp opens at Carrizo Springs, TX.
apnews.com/259d11069cbd4a…

@ifindkarma @jomareewade @B52Malmet @DemocracyStorm @funder @ProudResister @docrocktex26 @AdamParkhomenko @TrinityResists @Amy_Siskind The Carrizo Springs #ConcentrationCamp (CSCC) will be unlicensed, just like Homestead, and house up to 3,000 children. Just like Homestead. I imagine it'll be plenty prison-y, too. Just like Homestead.

But Homestead is failing children badly and is being sued, as of last Friday.

@ifindkarma @jomareewade @B52Malmet @DemocracyStorm @funder @ProudResister @docrocktex26 @AdamParkhomenko @TrinityResists @Amy_Siskind @JainaResists @RepJayapal @BennieGThompson @DWStweets @TrisResists @TheLoyalO @Augustus709 @RAICESTEXAS @TheSWPrincess HHS's Mark Weber, who informed providers last week of the complete funding cut for education/legal services/recreation, says "Oh, don't worry, these kids'll get shelter, food and water. The absolute minimum we can provide."

#NoConcentrationCamps #NoKidsInCages #LestWeForget

@ifindkarma @jomareewade @B52Malmet @DemocracyStorm @funder @ProudResister @docrocktex26 @AdamParkhomenko @TrinityResists @Amy_Siskind @JainaResists @RepJayapal @BennieGThompson @DWStweets @TrisResists @TheLoyalO @Augustus709 @RAICESTEXAS @TheSWPrincess @moved2italy @DanaScottlo @BryanDawsonUSA @brycetache Only providing the bare minimum to children in government custody is illegal, of course, and has been illegal since the 80s.

Not that it bothers people who'd put kids in #ConcentrationCamps to begin with.

#NoKidsInCages

Lawsuit vs Homestead:
files.constantcontact.com/baccf499301/46…

@ifindkarma @jomareewade @B52Malmet @DemocracyStorm @funder @ProudResister @docrocktex26 @AdamParkhomenko @TrinityResists @Amy_Siskind @JainaResists @RepJayapal @BennieGThompson @DWStweets @TrisResists @TheLoyalO @Augustus709 @RAICESTEXAS @TheSWPrincess @moved2italy @DanaScottlo @BryanDawsonUSA @brycetache @ImmJusticeNOW @carlyinNJ @RepJerryNadler @JacksonLeeTX18 @RashidaTlaib @IlhanMN @BetoORourke @RepUnderwood @RepBarragan @RepEscobar But children NEED structured time: school, recreation. Especially children who've been traumatized. Children fearful about being deported back to a life-threatening situation, or never seeing family again. They need counseling & ways to cope w/overwhelming feelings.

Not Prison.

@ifindkarma @jomareewade @B52Malmet @DemocracyStorm @funder @ProudResister @docrocktex26 @AdamParkhomenko @TrinityResists @Amy_Siskind @JainaResists @RepJayapal @BennieGThompson @DWStweets @TrisResists @TheLoyalO @Augustus709 @RAICESTEXAS @TheSWPrincess @moved2italy @DanaScottlo @BryanDawsonUSA @brycetache @ImmJusticeNOW @carlyinNJ @RepJerryNadler @JacksonLeeTX18 @RashidaTlaib @IlhanMN @BetoORourke @RepUnderwood @RepBarragan @RepEscobar @porpentina2017 @AdaKirschner @MatthewWolfff @LokiLoptr @lfkraus @TheRickyDavila @_SJPeace_ @SusanBChurch11 More American #ConcentrationCamp pictures, both DCC & ELCC.

Although CBP stated almost a month ago that they were putting up new camps in McAllen and Rio Grande City, I haven't been able to find proof they *were* raised. If anyone has pics...?

#NoKidsInCages #LestWeForget

@ifindkarma @jomareewade @B52Malmet @DemocracyStorm @funder @ProudResister @docrocktex26 @AdamParkhomenko @TrinityResists @Amy_Siskind @JainaResists @RepJayapal @BennieGThompson @DWStweets @TrisResists @TheLoyalO @Augustus709 @RAICESTEXAS @TheSWPrincess @moved2italy @DanaScottlo @BryanDawsonUSA @brycetache @ImmJusticeNOW @carlyinNJ @RepJerryNadler @JacksonLeeTX18 @RashidaTlaib @IlhanMN @BetoORourke @RepUnderwood @RepBarragan @RepEscobar @porpentina2017 @AdaKirschner @MatthewWolfff @LokiLoptr @lfkraus @TheRickyDavila @_SJPeace_ @SusanBChurch11 We do have pics from the new #ConcentrationCamp at Eagle Pass (EPCC), however.

Shiny!

#NoConcentrationCamps #LestWeForget

https://twitter.com/RachelMcGonagi1/status/1136909318198980609?s=20

@ifindkarma @jomareewade @B52Malmet @DemocracyStorm @funder @ProudResister @docrocktex26 @AdamParkhomenko @TrinityResists @Amy_Siskind @JainaResists @RepJayapal @BennieGThompson @DWStweets @TrisResists @TheLoyalO @Augustus709 @RAICESTEXAS @TheSWPrincess @moved2italy @DanaScottlo @BryanDawsonUSA @brycetache @ImmJusticeNOW @carlyinNJ @RepJerryNadler @JacksonLeeTX18 @RashidaTlaib @IlhanMN @BetoORourke @RepUnderwood @RepBarragan @RepEscobar @porpentina2017 @AdaKirschner @MatthewWolfff @LokiLoptr @lfkraus @TheRickyDavila @_SJPeace_ @SusanBChurch11 Further information about the Carizzo #ConcentrationCamp, via 2014 information about the property when it was set up for oil rig workers. It's called The Studios currently, but from now on, we'll just call it CCC, shall we?

#HomesInstead

https://twitter.com/IAmAmnaNawaz/status/1136717434344419328?s=20

@ifindkarma @jomareewade @B52Malmet @DemocracyStorm @funder @ProudResister @docrocktex26 @AdamParkhomenko @TrinityResists @Amy_Siskind @JainaResists @RepJayapal @BennieGThompson @DWStweets @TrisResists @TheLoyalO @Augustus709 @RAICESTEXAS @TheSWPrincess @moved2italy @DanaScottlo @BryanDawsonUSA @brycetache @ImmJusticeNOW @carlyinNJ @RepJerryNadler @JacksonLeeTX18 @RashidaTlaib @IlhanMN @BetoORourke @RepUnderwood @RepBarragan @RepEscobar @porpentina2017 @AdaKirschner @MatthewWolfff @LokiLoptr @lfkraus @TheRickyDavila @_SJPeace_ @SusanBChurch11 More of Carizzo #ConcentrationCamp. The buildings look an awful lot like barracks to me. Not that the kids' lives will be completely regimented down to how many minutes they get for eating, like at Homestead (15)...ha. Of course they will.

This is prison.

https://twitter.com/jomareewade/status/1137156587729182721?s=20

@ifindkarma @jomareewade @B52Malmet @DemocracyStorm @funder @ProudResister @docrocktex26 @AdamParkhomenko @TrinityResists @Amy_Siskind @JainaResists @RepJayapal @BennieGThompson @DWStweets @TrisResists @TheLoyalO @Augustus709 @RAICESTEXAS @TheSWPrincess @moved2italy @DanaScottlo @BryanDawsonUSA @brycetache @ImmJusticeNOW @carlyinNJ @RepJerryNadler @JacksonLeeTX18 @RashidaTlaib @IlhanMN @BetoORourke @RepUnderwood @RepBarragan @RepEscobar @porpentina2017 @AdaKirschner @MatthewWolfff @LokiLoptr @lfkraus @TheRickyDavila @_SJPeace_ @SusanBChurch11 Plan is for children aged 13-17 to start arriving at Carizzo #ConcentrationCamp in about a month. I don't know how much work they have to do in that time to make it Kid Friendly, but...😂

ORR doesn't care about that.

HHS is looking at Fort Benning, too.
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/06/06…

@ifindkarma @jomareewade @B52Malmet @DemocracyStorm @funder @ProudResister @docrocktex26 @AdamParkhomenko @TrinityResists @Amy_Siskind @JainaResists @RepJayapal @BennieGThompson @DWStweets @TrisResists @TheLoyalO @Augustus709 @RAICESTEXAS @TheSWPrincess @moved2italy @DanaScottlo @BryanDawsonUSA @brycetache @ImmJusticeNOW @carlyinNJ @RepJerryNadler @JacksonLeeTX18 @RashidaTlaib @IlhanMN @BetoORourke @RepUnderwood @RepBarragan @RepEscobar @porpentina2017 @AdaKirschner @MatthewWolfff @LokiLoptr @lfkraus @TheRickyDavila @_SJPeace_ @SusanBChurch11 Other things I've dug up about The Studios, and the company that owns them, Stratton Oilfield Systems, a subsidiary of Stratton Securities, Inc.

Dan Stratton (below) tried to sell the idea of using The Studios to Dimmit County 3 years ago, for family detention.

It didn't work.

@ifindkarma @jomareewade @B52Malmet @DemocracyStorm @funder @ProudResister @docrocktex26 @AdamParkhomenko @TrinityResists @Amy_Siskind @JainaResists @RepJayapal @BennieGThompson @DWStweets @TrisResists @TheLoyalO @Augustus709 @RAICESTEXAS @TheSWPrincess @moved2italy @DanaScottlo @BryanDawsonUSA @brycetache @ImmJusticeNOW @carlyinNJ @RepJerryNadler @JacksonLeeTX18 @RashidaTlaib @IlhanMN @BetoORourke @RepUnderwood @RepBarragan @RepEscobar @porpentina2017 @AdaKirschner @MatthewWolfff @LokiLoptr @lfkraus @TheRickyDavila @_SJPeace_ @SusanBChurch11 @IAmAmnaNawaz @TalKopan @CramonBPC @Haleaziz @AryaKicksButt @NewsHour This letter sent (by accident?) to GrassrootsLeadership.org when they were making the case has some nice pics. The Studios looks like a pleasant place to live.

If it weren't a prison.

Stratton seemed to fundamentally misunderstand how detention works....
grassrootsleadership.org/sites/default/…

@ifindkarma @jomareewade @B52Malmet @DemocracyStorm @funder @ProudResister @docrocktex26 @AdamParkhomenko @TrinityResists @Amy_Siskind @JainaResists @RepJayapal @BennieGThompson @DWStweets @TrisResists @TheLoyalO @Augustus709 @RAICESTEXAS @TheSWPrincess @moved2italy @DanaScottlo @BryanDawsonUSA @brycetache @ImmJusticeNOW @carlyinNJ @RepJerryNadler @JacksonLeeTX18 @RashidaTlaib @IlhanMN @BetoORourke @RepUnderwood @RepBarragan @RepEscobar @porpentina2017 @AdaKirschner @MatthewWolfff @LokiLoptr @lfkraus @TheRickyDavila @_SJPeace_ @SusanBChurch11 @IAmAmnaNawaz @TalKopan @CramonBPC @Haleaziz @AryaKicksButt @NewsHour Interestingly, when Dan Stratton came to Dimmit County the following year to pitch his plan in person, his rhetoric had changed.

Now, The Studios was "secure." No one could leave it. The kids'd go to school onsite, not in the community.

And no Syrians!
news.vice.com/en_us/article/…

@ifindkarma @jomareewade @B52Malmet @DemocracyStorm @funder @ProudResister @docrocktex26 @AdamParkhomenko @TrinityResists @Amy_Siskind @JainaResists @RepJayapal @BennieGThompson @DWStweets @TrisResists @TheLoyalO @Augustus709 @RAICESTEXAS @TheSWPrincess @moved2italy @DanaScottlo @BryanDawsonUSA @brycetache @ImmJusticeNOW @carlyinNJ @RepJerryNadler @JacksonLeeTX18 @RashidaTlaib @IlhanMN @BetoORourke @RepUnderwood @RepBarragan @RepEscobar @porpentina2017 @AdaKirschner @MatthewWolfff @LokiLoptr @lfkraus @TheRickyDavila @_SJPeace_ @SusanBChurch11 @IAmAmnaNawaz @TalKopan @CramonBPC @Haleaziz @AryaKicksButt @NewsHour The YouTube video taken by @RAICESTEXAS during the public meeting where Dan Stratton described his vision for The Studios to be the next best thing in the for-profit immigration prison system.

Now it's gonna be Carizzo Springs #ConcentrationCamp for kids!