Aurora ICE detainees are malnourished and forced to work, advocates report

https://denverite.com/2026/03/02/aurora-geo-immigration-jail-ice-conditions-report/

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SGGeorwell@lemmy.world · 165 pts · 186d (13 replies)

These will become impossible to deny as concentration camps. The regime must be prosecuted like Nuremberg. Let’s not forget that.

Wammityblam@lemmy.world · 73 pts · 186d (3 replies)

I genuinely worry that trump will just drop dead before he faces justice for all the heinous shit hes done. He’ll die without facing any accountability for anything.

The fact that he’s not rotting in prison for the rest of his life after 1/6 is such a fucking miscarriage of justice

comrade_twisty@feddit.org · 43 pts · 186d (2 replies)

Hitler killed himself to avoid prosecution, that didn't stop the prosecution of other people who participated or followed his orders.

Wammityblam@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 186d

Sure, and I know that will happen, but I want the people at the top to face justice too.

Any justice is better than none, but I want the architects behind bars.

And to clarify, I don’t even think it will get to the point where Trump offs himself, I just think he is a very sick old man who is showing concerning medical signs.

Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz · 5 pts · 185d

Many more fled to Argentina

BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz · 19 pts · 186d

We CANT do that because THEN Human Rights will look POLITICAL!

-Democrats!

Bytemeister@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 186d (1 reply)

They're already impossible to deny as concentration camps, and we're only a few months away from (Spoilers for 2026 ahead, stop reading here) being undeniably death camps.

orlyowl@piefed.ca · 1 pts · 184d

They’re already impossible to deny as concentration camps,

The media needs to start calling them that before it will make it into the consciousness of the vast majority of people who aren't paying as much attention as we are.

I keep waiting for the first major media outlet to have the courage to do so, but I suspect it's going to get a lot worse before I get my wish.

PumpkinSkink@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 185d

Lets also not forget that Nuremberg was woefully inadequate and failed to push Nazi collaborators out of power.

"The Nuremberg trials could try only a small sampling of major Nazi war criminals. German restitution negotiations were bound to have an unhappy ending, since no payments could possibly erase the harm or painful memories. No problems related to the Holocaust could be resolved quickly or adequately. Nor could they be swept under the carpet and be expected to disappear." ~Benjamin B. Ferencz, Chief Prosecutor of the US Army for the Einsatzgruppen Trial"

thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 185d

well as i understand it, concentration camps are defined as places you concentrate "undesirables" to get them out of society while you figure out what to do with them long term.

like, definitionally, we're undeniably already there. the first nazi camps were supposed to be deportation camps too.

problem is no country will actually let you dump people on them like that. the only truly viable long term answer for this kind of plan is to kill them in the end. however, that's distasteful, so they usual end up staying there until they all starve because at least then no one had to give the order to kill.

DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 185d (1 reply)

I can only imagine how satisfying it was for the world to watch the Nuremberg trials unfold and Nazis get hung or shot.

I really hope we get ours.

GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 185d

I wonder how the “good” Germans who didn’t support Hitler but also just showed up every couple of months for a few hours to protest the concentration camps when and where the Nazis said they could felt after the trials. Totally vindicated in their inaction in the face of pure evil I’m sure.

meep_launcher@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 185d (1 reply)

Maybe somewhere between Nuremberg and what happened to Gaddafi.

DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 185d

Gaddafi

Mmmmm. Butt stab.

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 73 pts · 186d (8 replies)

A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 25 pts · 186d (7 replies)

In 2025, at least they had hot chicks posing with them. /s

(I believe the similarities between these images are very much intentional)

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 186d

so young and hot

Crackhappy@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 186d (5 replies)

You think the Noem is hot? Blergh ..

A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 21 pts · 186d (4 replies)

/s

I even made it bold for people like you.

notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 186d (2 replies)

I saw /s too, however it still didn’t stop me from being disgusted either.

A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 5 pts · 186d (1 reply)

Fair enough. That was part of the point.

Crackhappy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 185d

My eyes literally just missed the /s my bad.

daychilde@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 186d

people like you.

Dehumanizing your enemies leads to grammar camps run by grammar nazis…

;-)^[I one-upped your bold by making my emoticon a heading. :)]^[lol… the superscript is REALLY SUPER as an h1…]

Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 41 pts · 186d (1 reply)

Any chance there's a sign somewhere nearby telling them that work will set them free?

betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 186d

"Arby's Makes Fries" is probably the closest thing they've got.

sveltecider@lemmy.ca · 39 pts · 186d (1 reply)

How could anyone deny these are concentration camps?

AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 186d

Same people that deny that the US invented concentration camps to deal with the natives

M0oP0o@mander.xyz · 23 pts · 185d

mesamunefire@piefed.social · 22 pts · 185d

"Guards allegedly refused to deliver food to sick people and would pay some detainees with a bag of chips for a day’s work. If the person refused, they would be sent to solitary, according to the report. "

WTF!!!

A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 18 pts · 186d
  • A persistent failure to adequately treat inmates’ health issues with medicine beyond a single dose of Ibuprofen
  • A proliferation of diagnoses for serious mental health conditions like schizophrenia that inmates had never suffered from before *
  • An overall lack of sufficient calories and vegetables
  • Verbal and physical abuse by guards
  • Extreme temperatures
  • Forced labor

* That's the worst one IMO. They want to make these people disappear even if their fascist takeover does not go quite as planned. It's planned. A failsafe. They go to the effort of "encouraging" doctors or even hiring those they know will do their bidding.

JamieDub86@piefed.social · 15 pts · 186d

Weve seen this before, somewhere...

DandomRude@piefed.social · 14 pts · 186d
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brownsugga@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 185d (1 reply)

As soon as the fight against fascism passed out of living memory, they go and try it again

abbadon420@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 185d

It s not out of living memory yet.

remedia@piefed.social · 10 pts · 186d
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OrangeScentedFish@discuss.tchncs.de · 10 pts · 185d

They are taking our jobs! Let's put them to work!

robocall@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 185d

18 fucking dollars for a can of chicken?!??!

oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 185d (4 replies)

If I found a genie lamp, can anyone tell me a single reason why I shouldn't wish every single ICE officer (including Noem) a sudden, drawn out, publically documented, and tortuously agonizing death?

And by "drawn out", I mean long enough to the point where people are watching them stumble around screaming in the streets while pointing and eating popcorn.

Oh and somehow ambulance and hospitals somehow won't be available to them.

MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 185d (2 replies)

Yes, I can.

You're being too narrow with your wish - you could include Epstein clients too, for example.

(This is only an issue with the popular "3 wishes only" genie, tho. If your genie gives you unlimited wishes, by all means, wish away.)

oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 185d (1 reply)

Oh I have different plans for them.

MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 184d

Fair enough.

CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 184d

Instant death is less cruel and also doesn't give them time to carry out any spiteful revenge killings in their final moments.

tlekiteki@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 186d (3 replies)

15th amendment when

grue@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 186d (2 replies)

What does the 15^th^ have to do with it? In theory at least, ICE prisoners aren't citizens.

Did you mean 25^th^?

tlekiteki@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 184d (1 reply)

I meant13th!

grue@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 184d

Ah, makes sense.

Pistcow@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 186d

I mean, that was the plan all along.

MushuChupacabra@piefed.world · 6 pts · 186d

Arbeit macht frei

TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id · 6 pts · 186d

I'm sure everyone will be freed eventually, if they work hard enough.

RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 186d

Trump’s gonna make them start assembling Tomahawk and Patriot battery missiles next.

HubertManne@piefed.social · 2 pts · 186d (1 reply)

this drove me a little nuts because its aurora and the place is on peoria street and the writer comes from chicago. I think. this is somewhere in colorado near denver but it sounds like it could be in far suburban chicago.

jballs@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 186d

Unfortunately Aurora CO has been in the news a lot over the years for a lot of bad reasons (movie theater shootings, Elijah McClain, and more recently with Tren de Aragua).

theacharnian@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 180d

As of like a week ago, members of congress apparently have the right to conduct unannounced oversight visits to federal immigration detention facilities.

Americans: call your Democratic member of congress and demand that they visit facilities such as this every single fucking day until conditions improve.