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submitted 1 week ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/news@lemmy.world

Two videos have surfaced shedding light on what is happening behind closed doors at a New York federal building where people are being confined after being seized by officers on their way out of immigration court on the 12th floor, with the footage offering a rare look inside a controversial and closely guarded space that is part of Donald Trump’s anti-immigration crackdown.

The filming, shared by the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), captures one of several rooms at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan, on the building’s 10th floor, where accounts have emerged of people being detained in wholly unsuitable conditions with few basic provisions, but there had been no public access to direct evidence.

The footage in question shows about two dozen men confined in bare rooms, some lying on the floor wrapped in aluminum emergency blankets while others sit on benches, the City reported on Tuesday.

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[-] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 41 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If you thought concentration camps only looked like Auschwitz, Gitmo, CECOT or Alligator Alcatraz, sometimes they also happen inside buildings. France for example had one in an appartment complex in Paris. The Trump regime isn't really innovating here.

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 14 points 1 week ago

The beds in the concentration camps were better than this. At least they had some sort of bed.

Jesus, I didn't ever think that would be something I would say.

[-] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Jesus, I didn’t ever think that would be something I would say.

Me neither: I knew the US' fascist tendencies would some day explode into full-blown Nazi shit, but I'm old enough that I thought I'd be blessed to be dead before it happened.

[-] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

What a silly comparison. Concentration camps were for prolonged confinement, these are makeshift temporary measures.

[-] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Concentration camps were for prolonged confinement

That is not what defines concentration camps.

Concentration camps, or internment camps, are prisons where people who are arbitrarily targeted by the regime are detained - more often than not in inhumane conditions - without due process. It doesn't matter if it's for 5 minutes or 5 years.

Most Nazi concentration camps were transit camps, designed to, well concentrate people in increasingly high numbers. And in a lot of "final" camps, people got in and were sent off to the gas chambers within hours of arriving there.

[-] Kurious84@eviltoast.org 6 points 1 week ago

What if they wore zorro masks instead. Just the eyes.

[-] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

What if they wore bags over their heads, so none of their features are visible?

[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You know, I watched my wife work all day gettin' thirty bags together for you ungrateful sons of b*tches! And all I can hear is criticize, criticize, criticize!

[-] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 5 points 1 week ago

Could they be plastic bags with a special elastic collar for the neck so they don't accidentally blow off?

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