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B.See

(8,101 posts)
Mon Feb 16, 2026, 02:51 AM 12 hrs ago

Crimes Against Humanity: Tens of Thousands Under Mass Internment, MANY with No Criminal History

As of January 25, 2026, there are approximately 70,766 individuals in ICE detention, with a significant portion having no criminal convictions.

Judges Have Rebuked Trump’s Mass Detention of Immigrants Thousands of Times - Mother Jones. A new Reuters investigation found hundreds of judges intervening in the prolonged detention of immigrants without criminal records.

Hundreds of judges across the nation have ruled over 4,400 times that... Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement arm is detaining people unlawfully, according to a new Reuters review of court documents. And that’s just since October. 

The Trump administration’s immense increase in detainments rests, in part, on their decision to detain people while their immigration cases are moving through the system—a departure from previous administrations’ interpretation of immigration law. This has led to a steep increase in immigrants petitioning the courts to be released, as Reuters reports, and the thousands of rulings finding that these prolonged detainments were unlawful. 


And Trump is often keeping these individuals locked up indefinitely.

Earlier this month, the conservative 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals handed the Trump administration a win. In a 2-1 ruling, that court held that the administration could hold people whose cases are actively going through the system. It’s a key win, as the circuit oversees Texas and Louisiana, where Immigration and Customs Enforcement has some of its most populated detention centers. 

The number of people kept in detainment who have no criminal record—the population petitioning the courts to be released—has increased exponentially under Trump’s second administration. According to a recent report from the American Immigration Council, the Trump administration’s arrest practices have led to a 2,450 percent increase in people with no criminal record being held in ICE detention on any given day.



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Crimes Against Humanity: Tens of Thousands Under Mass Internment, MANY with No Criminal History (Original Post) B.See 12 hrs ago OP
"2450 per cent increase" ??? Just say TWENTY-FIVE FOLD increase !! eppur_se_muova 12 hrs ago #1
These people are costing us millions! BidenRocks 11 hrs ago #2
Any minority, or liberal, it seems. B.See 11 hrs ago #3
Why is this being reported by Mother Jones and not MSM? Boomerproud 11 hrs ago #4
Cowardice and Complicity... B.See 10 hrs ago #5
One real issue is if people start to think it is all bs jfz9580m 10 hrs ago #6
Trump Used To Commit Crimes Against Humanity, Trump Still Does Commit Crimes Against Humanity But He Used To Too MayReasonRule 4 hrs ago #7

eppur_se_muova

(41,448 posts)
1. "2450 per cent increase" ??? Just say TWENTY-FIVE FOLD increase !!
Mon Feb 16, 2026, 02:57 AM
12 hrs ago

Why is everything supposed to be clearer in "percent" terms ? It really only works well for quantities UNDER 100 % which aren't close to a simple fraction.

And don't get me started on "three times smaller ...".


I know, this was in the original, not the poster's fault.


BidenRocks

(2,998 posts)
2. These people are costing us millions!
Mon Feb 16, 2026, 04:23 AM
11 hrs ago

Let them go back to their jobs which means taxable income!

The criminals WE care about are in Washington DC.

Those crooks are flirting with Trillions of dollars.

But the Spanish speakers are to blame for everything?

jfz9580m

(16,721 posts)
6. One real issue is if people start to think it is all bs
Mon Feb 16, 2026, 05:32 AM
10 hrs ago
There is too much junk out there telling people it is all made up. I have yet to hear that about this specifically.
But if people can be made to understand, it is important for uncorrupted info to be widely available to counteract the noxious effects of TikTok/YouTube/Facebook/Twitter and confuse people’s heads with kayfabe and dubious methods.

I am not above joking and trolling myself by now..We are all turning into savages one way or another ;-/..
But this is the real story. No decent democracy permits this to happen and distracts people with games and kayfabe.
That could be any one of us globally someday at this rate and it should be dinned into our idiotic billionaire class’s heads that those of us who don’t want our billionaires or a tacky bunker are not doing this for comedy hour and aware of the war on information not that junk becoming superintelligent but stolen lives can help with super accurate predictions about covering your fartarses while the rest of us stew and only a moron would sit and wait for that.
Hey Sundar Pichai, Shyam Palantir Creep, Peter Thiel..The anti christ called and said..
“read the writing on the wall dipshits. Democracy is not that easy to put back into the bottle once people get their own asses are on the line, which Pichai, like Perilaus, should figure out soon along with the Anduril etc creeps.
Do they think everyone is asleep at the wheel and angling for some dumbass

This is one of the real stories..that aside I have to degrow the root issue in my Candide’s garden, but this cannot be ignored.
Ai or trolls confuse cynical theatre and athletics with reality.
As is one is dubious about tightrope performance art to send a message to these guys that you can’t fool all the people all the time.
And as an old fashioned zealot as a citizen scientist, my paper, and degrowth of the rot economy in my own home without damaging anything worthwhile, complaint filing as essential, lowering the temperature…
Academics do a lot for free not Google free, just societal obligations. It is nothing like Hollywood/Bollywood/Tollywood/Mollywood/the music or sports industry or other bloated sectors when basic infrastructure (including cybersecurity almost surely) are strained and these ai creeps are robbing the place and shilling fake safety.

Though I gotta say this is the weirdest and most open ended shit work/general intelligence matching wits with garbage useless ai task I have ever done. Hah..I bet that is it..destroying millions of years of evolution for that stolen labor piece of crap. Sorry..diseased preoccupation..

But this is the real deal and the exact number and circumstances should not be lied about by those TikTok/YouTube outlets/Twitter etc.

70,000? But with ai ..Like destruction of information..that is 1984…



Sorry..It isn’t directly personal, but I am not solipsistic and your brain knows it logically more than it can feel it as it is indirect. And you would have to be not just a jerk, but also a fool to wait for it to be direct..
The next 14 years cannot go this way.

The import of some 14 years and 5 months of information is just hitting my, distinctly far superior to that lump ChatGPT, human brain.

This is the real story:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/migrants-face-dire-conditions-and-prolonged-waits-in-u-s-detention-centers

Migrants face dire conditions and prolonged waits in U.S. detention centers

Nation Feb 9, 2026 2:10 PM EST
MIAMI (AP) — Felipe Hernandez Espinosa spent 45 days at " Alligator Alcatraz," an immigration holding center in Florida where detainees have reported worms in their food, toilets that don't flush and overflowing sewage. Mosquitoes and other insects are everywhere.

For the past five months, the 34-year-old asylum-seeker has been at an immigration detention camp at the Fort Bliss Army base in El Paso, Texas, where two migrants died in January and which has many of the same conditions, according to human rights groups. Hernandez said he asked to be returned to Nicaragua but was told he has to see a judge. After nearly seven months in detention, his hearing was scheduled for Feb. 26.

Prolonged detention has become more common in President Donald Trump's second term, at least partly because a new policy generally prohibits immigration judges from releasing detainees while their deportation cases wind through backlogged courts. Many, like Hernandez, are prepared to give up any efforts to stay in the United States.

"I came to this country thinking they would help me, and I've been detained for six months without having committed a crime," he said in a phone interview from Fort Bliss. "It is been too long. I am desperate."

The Supreme Court ruled in 2001 that Immigration and Customs Enforcement cannot hold immigrants indefinitely, finding that six months was a reasonable cap.

With the number of people in ICE detention topping 70,000 for the first time, 7,252 people had been in custody at least six months in mid-January, including 79 held for more than two years, according to agency data. That's more than double the 2,849 who were in ICE custody at least six months in December 2024, the last full month of Joe Biden's presidency.

The Trump administration is offering plane fare and $2,600 for people who leave the country voluntarily. Yet Hernandez and others are told they can't leave detention until seeing a judge.

Legal advisers warn that these are not isolated cases

The first three detainees that attorney Ana Alicia Huerta met on her monthly trip to an ICE detention center in McFarland, California, to offer free legal advice in January said they signed a form agreeing to leave the United States but were still waiting.

"All are telling me: 'I don't understand why I'm here. I'm ready to be deported,'" said Huerta, a senior attorney at the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice. "That's an experience that I've never had before."

A Chinese man has been held for more than a year without seeing an immigration judge, even though he told authorities he was ready to be deported. In the past, Huerta said, she encountered cases like this once every three or four months.

READ MORE: Judge orders release of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father from ICE detention

The Department of Homeland Security said its policies follow the law. It noted a court ruling that the administration can continue to detain immigrants without bond.

"The conditions are so poor and so bad that people say, 'I'm going to give up'," said Sui Chung, executive director at Americans for Immigrant Justice.

The wait time may depend on the country. Deportations to Mexico are routine, but countries including Cuba, Nicaragua, Colombia and Venezuela have at times resisted accepting deportees.

Among those detained for months are people who have won protection under the United Nations Convention Against Torture, who cannot be deported to their home country but may be sent elsewhere.



I remembered how Yasha Levine mentioned how these horrible media things warp people’s perspectives.

It is an indictment of this society that Yasha isn’t a star journalist, but only Substack.
He is completely honest. Not an influencer (though he and his wife Evgenia Kovda have been significant influences on me, as I used to find the unreal side of things, as a formerly somewhat literal minded person ;-/ ). But he also doesn’t shit stir which is why he writes about the Vampire Castle.

MayReasonRule

(4,064 posts)
7. Trump Used To Commit Crimes Against Humanity, Trump Still Does Commit Crimes Against Humanity But He Used To Too
Mon Feb 16, 2026, 11:09 AM
4 hrs ago

When Reason rules, law becomes the architecture of trust: it shields the vulnerable, limits the powerful, and turns raw force into a shared safeguard rather than the tool of oppressive domination ruling our current timeline.

Here's to the total dissolution of the wholly fascist ongoing criminal enterprise that is the GOP.








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