The point of the U.S. is that, unlike other countries, we were never a ‘homeland’. It wasn’t about being born in the same place as your parents, grandparents, etc. It was about the laws and ideals that created this particular political country. As long as you swore allegiance to them, nothing else mattered.
(Obviously, the fact that the entire country was stolen from the previous tenants and built up via slavery has to be carefully set aside to think about it as an ideal in this way.)
The current administration is trying to convince us that we’re just a homeland, like any other country. Born here (with white skin) means you belong. Taking from brown- and black-skinned people is your proud heritage.
And now that the laws and the Constitution itself have been thrown out, there’s no ideal to have allegiance toward, anyway.
Blood and soil.
I don’t know how this will go in future, but right now, the United States of America no longer exists.
More from Andrea Pritzker on the history of concentration camps…
Spread this one far and wide, so if there are attempts to shut this down, it gets around to as many people as possible.
Breaking news on some of the men sent to El Salvador; it sounds like they have been released and sent back to Venezuala.
This wasn’t Huntington Beach, California—it was in Huntington Park, California. The former is in Orange County and super MAGA, and the latter is in LA County.
Adding the photo showing a Huntington Park police car from the post.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article310940515.html
How 7 immigrants came to the U.S. and ended up at Alligator Alcatraz
(Excerpts from three different people’s stories)
Last month, Castillo was arrested for habitually driving without a license, court records show. He was taken to Alligator Alcatraz on July 3. Six days later, Castillo said, he was handcuffed and left outdoors in the sun as a punishment for attempting to go on a hunger strike inside the detention center, he said in a phone interview. As mosquitoes swarmed him, Castillo pleaded with guards to bring him inside, he said. He was kept outside for nearly three hours.
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Laura Morales, his wife, said he was among the first detainees there. Morales said guards beat him last week after he demanded better conditions and that he was moved to a different area as punishment.
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Cueto, born with a lung that works at 10% capacity since birth, said he is suffering inside the facility. During one meal, Cueto attempted to explain to the guards that he needed more time to finish eating his food because of his condition. The language barrier between the English-speaking guards and the Spanish-speaking Cueto caused his request to be interpreted as insubordination, he said. Cueto said he was struck in the ribs numerous times with a baton-like tool until an English-speaking detainee clarified the situation to guards, Cancio said.
Cueto, Cancio said, is also not receiving the medicine he needs. Cancio has driven to the entrance on U.S. Route 41 and asked officers to deliver the medicine to him. She said she understands that they might not be able to accept the medicine she brings but that they ought to provide it to Cueto themselves. Cueto has thrown up blood and contracted COVID-19 while inside the detention center, Cancio said. She worries Cueto is over-exerting his fully functioning lung and that his long-term health will suffer.