US Military Helping Trump to Build Massive Network of ‘Concentration Camps,’ Navy Contract Reveals
This story raises questions about governance, accountability, and American values.
The “concentration camps” framing is designed to end the conversation before it starts. Pair it with breathless references to a Navy contract and you get moral panic instead of scrutiny: Are facilities legal, accountable, and temporary, or are they improvised and opaque? Conservatives don’t need euphemisms for detention, and we don’t need propaganda either.
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The Department of Homeland Security is using a repurposed $55 billion Navy contract to convert warehouses into makeshift jails and plan sprawling tent cities in remote areas. In the wake of immigration agents’ killings of three US citizens within a matter of weeks, the Department of Homeland Security is quietly moving forward [...]The post US Military Helping Trump to Build Massive Network of ‘Concentration Camps,’ Navy Contract Reveals appeared first on Activist Post.
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The “concentration camps” framing is designed to end the conversation before it starts. Pair it with breathless references to a Navy contract and you get moral panic instead of scrutiny: Are facilities legal, accountable, and temporary, or are they improvised and opaque?
Conservatives don’t need euphemisms for detention, and we don’t need propaganda either. The real issue is whether DHS is operating under rule of law, with clear standards for custody, due process, and humane conditions, and whether any military support stays within proper limits. The reported killings of citizens demand transparent investigations, not sweeping insinuations.
A country that cannot control entry loses public trust and invites chaos. But a system that expands detention without oversight risks institutional legitimacy. The principle at stake is simple: enforce the border with accountability and constitutional limits, not slogans from either side.
Commentary written with AI assistance by the New Republican Times Editorial Board.