Wait, How Exactly Did ICE Manage to “Lose” More Than 1,000 Alligator Alcatraz Detainees?

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a67951055/alligator-alcatraz-missing-detainees/

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teagrrl@lemmy.ml · 40 pts · 349d (4 replies)

I am sure we will find out more about the true horrors behind this concentration camp in a few years and where 1,000 people went. 😰

TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 349d

I am sure we will find out more about the true horrors behind this concentration camp in a few years and where first 1,000 people went. 😰

ftfy

the_q@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 349d (2 replies)

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TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 349d (1 reply)

We're not the fools if we've been discussing and asking to stop it or working to stop it the entire time.

StraponStratos@lemmy.sdf.org · 8 pts · 349d

You’re a fool if you’re asking fascists to stop.

DreamAccountant@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 349d (2 replies)

Why is everyone giving the benefit of the doubt to modern nazis about the subject: Concentration Camps?

Those people are dead or dying. They were killed by American Nazis, until proven otherwise. You don't "lose" 1,000 people in the middle of nowhere swamp from a high security prison. They're either in a pit or they're bodies scattered around the swamp, being eaten by gators and boas. Just like they fucking planned and boasted about.

They'll do it to you, too. Drumpy said he hates his enemies. Zero compassion.

zib@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 349d (1 reply)

There is a reason I've spent most of this year referring to Trump's secret police as the American Schutzstaffel. I'd say what I think citizens should do to them on sight, but I think it would violate community rules here and likely land me with an all-expenses-paid permanent vacation to one of their other concentration camps.

gallopingsnail@lemmy.sdf.org · 8 pts · 349d

Ah yes, the American Schutzstaffel, the A.S.S.

Hope they get what's coming to them.

0li0li@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 349d (1 reply)

Anyone check the furnace?

RaoulDuke85@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 349d

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Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 349d (7 replies)

What if they never existed in the first place and the numbers were made up to placate Trump

JcbAzPx@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 349d

That's kind of a best case scenario in this situation.

Fermion@mander.xyz · 10 pts · 349d

Or to boost invoices on per capita contracts.

PriorityMotif@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 349d (1 reply)

The private contractor gets about $100/ day per person, so they so have an incentive to make up numbers. $100k / day out of the $250B is a rounding error.

PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 349d

Not for the person pocketing it, it's very common kind of fraud in various repression organs through history.

y0kai@anarchist.nexus · 4 pts · 349d

holy fuck lmao the grift

DreamAccountant@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 349d (1 reply)

Stop inventing fantasies that absolve nazis from horrors.

Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 349d

Nazis are horrible but since the 30s they’ve been making numbers up to look good to their superiors.

It’s part of why authoritarian regimes fail.

Revan343@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 349d

How did they lose 1000 prisoners in the place that was chosen specifically for the alligators that would eat anyone 'who tried to escape'?

Fucking guess. And no, they didn't try to escape

HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 349d

"Lose" Good chance they died under their wonderfully humane and responsible care.

st3ph3n@midwest.social · 9 pts · 349d

Perhaps they didn't lose them, but they disappeared them.