States and Cities Are Pushing Back Against ICE's Attempt to Build Detention Centers

Enough is enough.

Americans are fighting back against the Trump regime's attempts to convert warehouses into jails for immigrants. 

As part of the Trump regimes plan for mass deportations ICE has been attempting to buy warehouses across the country so that it can turn them into gulags for people of color.

The good news is there's been a substantial pushback against the detention centers by states and cities across America. Communities and city officials have protested - and successfully blocked - some of these purchases. But the fight goes on.

Some examples:

In Ashland, Virginia, protestors braved freezing temperatures to successfully lobby the local board of commissioners against the Department of Homeland Security's attempt to buy a warehouse to convert it into a prison. You'll notice I didn't say detention camp because people (men, women and children) have been held indefinitely in many cases. 

In January, residents of Oklahoma City packed a city council meeting to express their displeasure that DHS was interested in buying a local warehouse to turn into another hellhole for immigrants. The Republican mayor met with the owners of the facility and later announced that they had decided not to sell to the DHS.

In Durant, Oklahoma, the Choctaw Nation issued an ordinance banning the sale of an empty distribution center near tribal lands to the DHS.

In Kansas City, Missouri, the port authority moved to cut ties with a local company to discourage the city's plans to sell a warehouse to the DHS.

Resistance to ICE's attempts to expand its immigration prison system has been manifested in different tactics. One common strategy over the past year has been to identify local contacts with ICE - and to push elected officials and institutions to cut them.

Enterprise Rent-A-Car has been a common target for its partnership with ICE. City and state officials are starting to pay attention to the company's relationship with ICE. Last December, ICE agents were reported to be illegally swapping license plates on rental cars to make tracking them more difficult. 

Local officials are also targeting contracts for ICE's office spaces and parking garages.

And in Philadelphia, city councilors are pushing to end or restrict collaboration with the DHS in what they call their "ICE Out" package.

As proof how bad these immigrant detention facilities are, DHS is doing everything it can to keep members of Congress from visiting them despite their legal authority to conduct unannounced visits, or spot check, in person.

As it Stands, it's no wonder people are calling ICE agents the Gestapo. The Trump regime is doing its best to copy Hitler's tactics.