Yet these detention dreams are hitting stiff opposition. ICE wants to buy a warehouse in Virginia’s Hanover County, which went for Trump by 26 points in 2024 and combines rural territory with Richmond’s northern suburbs. Residents recently turned out in force and angrily condemned the proposed sale, with local reports suggesting only a “handful” backed it. The GOP-heavy Board of Supervisors opposed the transaction. The warehouse owner canceled the sale.

Meanwhile, in New Jersey, the Republican-dominated Roxbury Township Council, in slightly-Trump-leaning Morris County, recently voted unanimously to oppose ICE’s plans to buy a warehouse there, with some locals sharply protesting the scheme for humanitarian reasons. The Republican mayor of Oklahoma City came out against a proposed ICE warehouse, with the owner also nixing the sale. Officials in places like Kansas City, Missouri, and Salt Lake City, Utah, are also dead set against plans for ICE camps in their locales.

Guess what: The opposition is only getting started. As MS NOW’s Rachel Maddow noted in a useful overview of the opposition Monday night, we’re already seeing mass protests outside existing facilities. Those are smaller than some of the gargantuan new camps ICE hopes to create, yet migrant deaths are already soaring in the current facilities, and the bigger ones will be even worse. “If they build them, they will fill them,” Maddow said, labeling them “prison camps.” She added: “How do you think those facilities are going to be run?”

Will this be the thing that finally makes Trump's base abando-

Of course not, don't be ridiculous.

They're trying to build a prison, for you and me to live in

"I'd like to share a story from a local paper in Coldwater, Michigan dated to the 9th of April, 1945. It tells how the US Army, under General Patton--the US 3rd Army--came onto what you might call a detention center just outside the village of Ohrdruf, Germany. 

The US Army brought the leading citizens of Ohrdruf to tour the facility, which turned out to be part of the Buchenwald network of concentration camps. A US Army colonel told the German civilians who viewed the scenes, without muttering a word, that they were to blame. 

One of the Germans replied that what happened in the camp was (quote) 'done by a few people, and you cannot blame us all.' And the American, who could have been any one of our grandfathers, said, 'this was done by those that the German people chose to lead them, and all are responsible.' 

The morning after the tour, the Mayor of Ohrdruf killed himself. And maybe he did not know the full extent of the outrages that were committed in his community, but he knew enough. And we don't know exactly how ICE will use this warehouse. But we know enough. 

I ask you to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf might have thought before he died. Maybe he felt like a victim. He might have thought, 'how is this my fault? I have no jurisdiction over this.' Maybe he would have said, 'this site was not subject to local zoning, what could I do?' 

But I think, when he reflected on the suffering that occurred at this camp, just outside of town, that those words would have sounded hollow even to him. Because in his heart he knew--as we do--that we are all responsible for what happens in our community. 

I urge the council to take action to stop, or stall, or at the barest minimum to think creatively about how to exercise oversight over this proposed ICE facility. Thank you."

"Vast holding facilities" AKA concentration camps. They still mince their words, but their actions speak clear.

For context: The average maximum security prison is 800-1200 people, and the largest, at 8300, is in Angola, LA. That has been sufficient for the most incarcerated nation in America. But MAGA thinks we need to imprison even more.

Everybody seems to have forgotten that one of Trump's first Executive Orders was the construction of a 30,000 bed facility in Guantanamo Bay.

Expanding Migrant Operations Center at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay to Full Capacity

Trump to prepare facility at Guantanamo for 30,000 migrants

And the $250 million contract has been awarded:

Constellis Announces $249 Million Construction Contract at U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

Work is currently on progress, and slated to end in 2029, for the next president, I presume.

They've been deporting people as fast as they can catch them, and yet they are building facilities all over America, and now this giant one in Guantanamo Bay. If they are deporting people, who do they plan on putting there? The official answer was high profile illegal immigrant criminals, whose home countries couldn't be trusted to hold them, but there can't be that many of those people.

So who do they plan holding there, far from the prying eyes of family, lawyers, courts, and especially the media?

And what happens a few years down the line, when nearly all immigrants have been removed? What are they going to do with the richest agency in the government? What are they going to do with all those massive concentration camps? Close them down, and give back the money? Or find a new boogeyman to utilize those resources?

I don't think assuming that NIMBYs don't want something in "their backyard" for moral reasons is the right take. NIMBYs by definition are selfish and just don't want whatever it is near them. It's "Not In My BackYard".

The places in these red states are probably more than happy to have some more ICE mega-prisons, just in somebody else's backyard.

Which Christian sect is the right one, asking for a friend?

The only good NIMBYs can do

"Did I say death camps? I meant happy camps."

Wait until they are almost done, and then burn them to the ground. After a while, no insurance company will cover them. This is the same reason that I see no issue with vandalizing Teslas, as long as the owners are not hurt.

https://migrantinsider.com/p/how-the-pentagon-is-quietly-building

I swear to god, these people see The Holocaust as a blueprint.

Lmao, the MAGAs lose to the ultimate buzz killer, the NIMBYs!

Well your choice folks at this point. Die on your feet or on your knees.

“Fury” in his own camp? These people protect kidfuckers. They’re not furious about a god damned thing.

Well, the polls are certainly encouraging. I'm not fully convinced that this is indeed Trump's true base abandoning him. Also, while I know the article wasn't arguing this, from what I understand, historically, tyrants that are elected are particularly difficult to remove. I will not celebrate just yet.

This is definitely progress though, and a good article. I'm sharing this one. It is... a source of light in dark times.