ICE's Auschwitz Everywhere

 

Another of the ugly provisions in the just- passed "One Big Beautiful Bill" for billionaires concerns funding for the Malignant Fascist's ICE masked goon squad and their "detention centers." What kind of country do you think this foreshadows: 

According to estimates from the World Food Programme, the funds going towards deportation would also be enough to fully fund the program to end world hunger for four years.

Broken down, the $175 billion topline number includes nearly $30 billion ICE’s enforcement budget; $45 billion for building new immigration detention centers; $47 billion for the construction of a border wall; $12 billion for state-level immigration measures; and roughly $10 billion to reimburse the Department of Homeland Security for “safeguard[ing] the borders of the United States,” among other provisions.

Americans have already had a preview of some of what’s to come with the increased deportation budget, like on Wednesday, when Trump traveled to Florida to tour a new camp being built there to house immigrants.

The facility, dubbed “Alligator Auschwitz” by critics, is a 3,000-bed tent city and prison in the Everglades. The facility is expected to cost around $450 million a year, just a fraction of the $45 billion that Republicans have allocated towards building new detention facilities. This particular facility, however,  is funded by FEMA funds, reminiscent of the “FEMA concentration camp” conspiracy theory popular among Republicans, only this time it’s real. And the Florida GOP is already selling “Alligator Alcatraz” trucker hats, among other merch.

Trump also suggested that the new camp could be the first of many, foreshadowing a new incarceration system in the United States.

“Well, I think would like to see them in many states. Really, many states,” Trump said. “And, you know, at some point, they might morph into a system.”

We absolutely believe the Malignant Fascist has incarceration of his political opponents in his tiny mind.  The orange rat's already threatened to arrest the Democratic candidate for mayor of New York City over ICE operations in NYC.  With lower courts becoming more and more neutered by the Republican MAGAt Supreme Court, and barriers like deploying U.S. military in support of ICE operations obliterated, it's not too far a leap to see these MAGAt fascists looking for any excuse to expand their roundup of non-criminal immigrants to include Democrats, journalists, etc., that they fear or simply don't like.  And the bill provides the mechanism for ICE's operational scope to be multiplied:

"...[T]he ICE agents themselves likely won’t be the primary drivers when it comes to detaining people. Rather, it will be local police departments and their coordination with ICE that will serve as a funnel to push more people into detention and ultimately into deportation.

This is what fascism looks like in 2025 Trump's America.  And, as has been said, if you ever wondered what you would have done in 1930's Germany, you're doing it now.

(Photo:  Masked goons outside of the Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, NJ, June 12, 2025 / Stephanie Keith, Getty Images)