Assistant Director of ICE testifies before congress that detention centers are "Summer Camps"

[Coyote Starrk]

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Transcript of his full "Summer Camp" statement

"In regards to the FRC's I think the best way to describe them is to be more like a Summer Camp. These individuals have access to 24/7 food and water, they have educational opportunities, they have recreational opportunities, both structured as well as unstructured, there's basketball courts, there's exercise classes, there's soccer fields that we put in there. They have extensive medical, dental and mental health opportunities. In fact, many of these individuals, the first time they've ever seen a dentist" -- ICE official Matthew Albence

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Meanwhile.......

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But yeah lets call them "Summer Camps". I have no idea what to say except fuck these people and fuck every single person who voted to make this possible.

 

[shnurgleton]

They are definitely camps, but not summer camps

 

[Deleted member 39587]

Abolish ICE

 

[PMS341]

I really wonder what would happen if there was a mass raid at one of these "camps".

 

[Rygar 8Bit]

The Onion reality is bleeding heavily into ours.

 

[Torpedo Vegas]

I'm glad now that I never went to camp.

 

[JDSN]

People not on the streets are mostly okay with this.

 

[HStallion]

So members of ICE should send their own children to these Summer Camps if they're so nice and fun

 

[BlueTsunami]

Campfires, tire swings by the lake, your first kiss. Ahhh, nothing makes me more nostalgic than my two years at that internment camp.

 

[louiedog]

These individuals have access to 24/7 food and water, they have educational opportunities, they have recreational opportunities, both structured as well as unstructured, there's basketball courts, there's exercise classes, there's soccer fields that we put in there. They have extensive medical, dental and mental health opportunities.

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Oh good. They have 3 out of 5 of the freedoms that decent people think farm animals should have.

 

[HStallion]

DP

 

[ryul2]

have him send his kids to them then

/rollseyes

I still can't believe this is happening and the GOP base is ok with it. Oh right, it's happening to basically non whites so they don't give a fuck.

 

[crimsonlink]

Thats funny because I'm very sure your parents can pick you up from summer camp at any time and that the beds aren't behind cages if they even are "beds".

 

[Deleted member 11637]

Fuck these brownshirts.

 

[Coyote Starrk]

Remember when the GOP would regularly claim to be the "Party of God and Family Values"?

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

Technically it IS summer and they are in camps.

Checkmate libs.

 

[TheGreatDirector]

Ah yes, the summer concentration camps.

 

[Siggy-P]

"In regards to the FRC's I think the best way to describe them is to be more like a Summer Camp. These individuals have access to 24/7 food and water, they have educational opportunities, they have recreational opportunities, both structured as well as unstructured, there's basketball courts, there's exercise classes, there's soccer fields that we put in there. They have extensive medical, dental and mental health opportunities. In fact, many of these individuals, the first time they've ever seen a dentist" -- ICE official Matthew Albence


...sounds familiar... (about 15 seconds in)

 

[Wraith]

"In regards to the FRC's I think the best way to describe them is to be more like a Summer Camp. These individuals have access to 24/7 food and water, they have educational opportunities, they have recreational opportunities, both structured as well as unstructured, there's basketball courts, there's exercise classes, there's soccer fields that we put in there. They have extensive medical, dental and mental health opportunities. In fact, many of these individuals, the first time they've ever seen a dentist" -- ICE official Matthew Albence

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So what you're saying is it's basically prison, but not technically prison? Cool.......

 

[Baroque]

Sign your own damn kids up then, jackass.

 

[EdibleKnife]

Yeah. When do they get to go home then because Summer's almost over

 

[SliceSabre]

You could say the same thing about a prison.

 

[sibarraz]

Sounds Legit

 

[SegFault]

Send ice to The Hague.

 

[KtotheRoc]

If you're going to go Orwellian might as well go all the way!

 

[Coyote Starrk]

The Onion reality is bleeding heavily into ours.

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I have no idea how they are even still in business at this point to be honest.

 

[Pet]

Then send your damn children there. Put your money where your mouth is.



fuckwit

 

[Gernau Morat Gurgeh]

You ever wonder how you get people who run the camps and organise the trains? They are always with us, it just takes the correct environment for them to come out in. They live in the soil like plague, biding their time.

 

[Spartancarver]

Abolish ICE, arrest everyone working for them

 

[LucidMomentum]

You could say the same thing about a prison.

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One wonders why they seek to defund schools yet love private prisons...

Oh wait.

 

[Hiphopopotamus]

These are the types of sociopaths that should be removed from their jobs and made to never feel safe again in public.

Also, fuck every single Trump voter with a rusty pitchfork.

 

[No Depth]

Remember when the GOP would regularly claim to be the "Party of God and Family Values"?

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The long con starting to pay off is all.

 

[Shadybiz]

You could say the same thing about a prison.

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Exactly right.

 

[bremon]

They're just camps! Camps where we concentrate a large number of children in specific buildings in a limited area! They're staying there all summer! Summer camp!

Just think...a few more months and the kids will get to experience winter camp as well. Surprised they don't make them sing Christian themed song and slap some crosses on the walls and sell it to the evangelical plebs as bible camp.

 

[electroshockwave]

Camp Refoo-gee

 

[SlickShoesRUCRazy]

Criminal, human rights violating cunts.

Hang these fucks already.

 

[Chamaeleonx]

They are definitely camps, but not summer camps

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The camps in Germany also started as "Summer camps" or "relocation stuff"... .

The officials answer also is so generic and sounds like just listing anything that he could come up with. Why does he not have to prove any of that?

 

[thecouncil]

How can I sign my kids up? It sounds pretty fun!

 

[Giruvegan]

What about the deadline?

 

[JustinP]

Lets send his kids to summer camp then.

 

[Digital Dinosaur]

Well I mean doesn't every summer camp dope up the toddlers to prevent them from wailing so much, as they stand in the center of their Fun Enclosures, unable to be touched by their siblings?

 

[Kirbivore]

I'm remembering that we had Nazi summer camps less than a century ago in america

 

[Chamaeleonx]

Also, how is never anybody calling these people out? Go in there and and question their arguments.

 

[Nokterian]

Lying in front of congress..unbelievable.

Summer 'concentration' camps..will he say he was just doing his job as ordered?

Abolish ice, there scum of the earth.

 

[Bee.Cups]

Probably a good idea to keep the word camp as far away from this situation as possible. You know.. for reasons that anyone who thought for 5 seconds would be able to think of.

 

[BlackNMild2k1]

Would everyone involved send their children to these so called "summer camps"?

I think someone needs to get them on the record for this one.

 

[Akainu]

Maybe one of those movie summer camps.

 

[Beartruck]

What about the deadline?

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Problem is they never intended to reunite any of them so there are still several thousands separated while they are forced to use expensive and time consuming DNA tests because they never took any goddamn notes.

 

[HyperFerret]

Calling them "camps" huh...

Now where in history class have I heard that term before.

 

[Khanimus]

These fuckers deserve prison.