"For 280 days we haven't eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive

[Swede]

Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

https://lataco.com/captive-lotion-bottle-note

[Laffy Kat]

1. Let's call these "detention centers" what they are.

Concentration camps.

[maveric]

10. The Otay facility is a private prison.

CoreCivic. So that doesn’t surprise me at all.

[iemanja]

12. I doubt the public ones are much better.

Cruelty is the point.

[Rebl2]

13. There is

a core civic in KS they want to become a supposed detention center. Odd, because they want to put one right next door in my state, not that far from each other. The one in my state is an empty Amazon warehouse. Why would they put two so close together I wonder.

[cbabe]

2. From the link:

…

About 150 people were gathered there that day. San Diegans have been assembling like this, outside of the privately-run federal immigration detention center, since November 2. That’s when San Diego Bike Brigade, a group that began patrolling local schools on their bikes to protect children from federal immigration activity, hosted its first vigil, now a weekly occurrence. What started then as a group of ten people is now growing each time they gather.

The weekly vigil is currently supported by a coalition of seven organizations, including the San Diego Bike Brigade, called the Otay Mesa Detention Collective. These include Borderlands for Equity, San Diego Families for Justice, San Diego Showing Up for Racial Justice, 50501 San Diego, and SD Activist.

…

Organizers use this information to add anywhere from $20 to $45 to detainee accounts on Connect Network, an app that collects funds for detainees’ commissary. They add $10 to $20 to accounts on the GTL GettingOut App, which is used for phone calls.

L.A. TACO reviewed transactions provided by the Otay Mesa Detention Collective. There are four organizers who have become experts in using these apps: Tin-Lok Wong, Roni Ramirez, Mejgan Afshan, and Mariel Horner.

The collective has raised $15,380 since they began gathering donations in December, and redistributed those funds among 250 captives. On Sunday, over $3,000 was raised and about 50 A-Numbers were collected. Around six bottles and a deodorant were thrown over the fence that day, containing anywhere from one to nine A-Numbers.

…

Her family was not aware of her whereabouts and they had no idea where she was at the time. Yelling her name to organizers allowed her to be connected with her family.

… more … $1 per day pay for prison labor … organizers speak multiple languages…

[efhmc]

3. I was wondering if or where there might be a Texas group to help people here. Does anyone have any info about this?

[cbabe]

4. Maybe contact the San Diego group and ask how to organize one.

[efhmc]

9. Thank you very much for taking the time to answer me.

[highplainsdem]

5. What they're doing to those captives is deliberate torture, IMO. They have the funds to feed and treat

them better. This is deliberate sadistic cruelty.

[sakabatou]

6. Deliberate malnutrition

[BigmanPigman]

7. San Diegans HATE tRump

On Thursday alone with a 5 minute time frame my hand made anti-tRump earrings got 3 compliments while I was at the Cox Store. I use them as a source for personal informal polling in my area.

If Bovino plans of moving back to El Centro he's even more stupid than I already thought. Stephen Miller is living on a military base for safety concerns. Bovino should take that option. On second thought I hope he does move back there since it will not be a pleasant experience for him...

[greatauntoftriplets]

8. Are they trying to give them all scurvy?

And will they provide medical care when they all get sick?

[Fil1957]

11. It's been said many times before, but it bears repeating -- "The cruelty is the point".

[LoisB]

14. Crimes against humanity, cruel and unusual punishments. The entire

maladministration should be in front of the International Criminal Court.

[flvegan]

16. The ICC lacks jurisdiction, I believe. n/t

[popsdenver]

17. Why do you think

Trump's Republican CABAL is trying to destroy the U.N...........they work hand in hand with the Hague.......
There are many nations that Putin can't go to, or he will be arrested and sent to the Hague and put on trial for Crimes Against Humanity, and International War Crimes........Part of the reason he had to come to Alaska to meet with Poopy Pants......

Hope the Hague brands everyone in the Republican/Trump CABAL with the same charges, where they can't go to a lot of countries, for fear of being sent to the Hague for trials similar to Nuremberg..........

[flvegan]

15. "We" could equal class action at this point, I would assume.

[popsdenver]

18. Better hurry

It is already being rumored that the Republicans and U.S. Corporations want to out law "Class Action Lawsuits"........

[Figarosmom]

19. So i wonder how

The government is planning to relocate them? Are they being held to be deported or to be trafficked into slave labor or sex slaves? They sure don't care if they stay healthy.

[democrank]

20. Trump's policies all have cruelty as a guiding principle.

None of these policies would be possible without Trump’s enablers who are either cruel, corrupt or cowardly.