Relocation Centers in Our Midst

Tule Lake “Relocation Center,” California, c. 1940s. Photo by Jack Frost, courtesy of the Bain Family Collection, ddr.densho.org

The future is detainment… if Trump is elected.

Consider the current state of “relocation centers,” a scrubbed-up term designed to mitigate citizen separation and seizure. Even Wikipedia is at pains to trace the term’s elocution:

“A relocation center was a camp where Japanese Americans were held during World War II. The War Relocation Authority (WRA) administered ten of these centers, which were also known as internment camps, concentration camps, or incarceration camps.” — “Relocation Centers,” AI overview, wikipedia.com

“Relocation” belongs more with “detainment” than disposition.

There is no more border wall to build. Congress nixed it. But there are lots of relocation centers on the drawing board ready to deploy, if Trump is elected. Currently there are 37,395 detainees being sequestered in the United States, 60.1% of whom have no criminal record.

Here’s where they are being detained:

Texas, 11, 641. Louisiana, 6,269. California, 2,641. Arizona, 2,462. Georgia, 2,404. (1)

Currently, there are 176,886 “limbo-ed” detainees, described such by ICE as being monitored in “Alternatives to Detention,” whatever that means.

Here’s where they are being “monitored”: