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ICE’s Mass Deportation goals are looking more like "Mass Incarceration" goals, increasingly targeting people without criminal convictions. And for the inevitable trolls, I'll remind you that being in the U.S. while undocumented is a civil offense, not a criminal one.
There’s a new ICE detention center in the city of McFarland, in California’s Central Valley. According to CalMatters, the 700-bed prison was quietly reopened by the private prison group GEO, which obtained permits and licenses from McFarland without consulting its constituents beforehand.
According to the Guardian, ICE is also planning to detain more children in a dedicated facility located in Louisiana’s most toxic and contaminated military site.