Detention facility currently holds as many as 200 children incarcerated after midnight arrests
Prison Planet | January 8, 2007
Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones
A detention camp in Taylor Texas that currently holds hundreds of rebuffed asylum seekers who legally entered the country, half of which are children swept up in midnight raids, is a potential prime location for the enforced transfer of American citizens during a time of national emergency.
The privatized Hutto jail, which is also administered by Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), currently interns political asylum seekers who came to the U.S. on legal visas. Most of them are families including pregnant women and children who have never been accused of any wrongdoing but are forced to endure squalid conditions inside literal concentration camps.
In 2004 the facility was on the verge of being shutdown due to lack of occupancy but new immigration policies, allied to the burgeoning growth of the prison industry and future plans to detain American citizens on masse, have revived the potential scope of the camp, and a new contract to intern 600 individuals was finalized with immigration authorities in December 2005.
The facility is euphemistically called a “Residential Center,” yet c harges of overcrowding and poor conditions are rife , with an estimated 645 people filling a facility that has only 512 beds.
“Innocent children should not be jailed and forced to live under traumatizing and dehumanizing conditions,” said a statement from Texans United for Families, an organization that recently held a vigil protest at the facility. “It is bad policy and an impractical and inhumane response to a growing refugee crisis. The U.S. should seek alternatives to detention while making sure that it legislates policies that support families and keep them together and out of jail.”
The Infowars team recently visited the facility and were promptly told to leave the premises before having their names taken, but not before they were able to get footage of the camp “playground” where some of the children were playing behind giant mesh barbed wire. The children were kept indoors throughout the taping and were only allowed out when the film crew left to eat lunch.
Story continues at
http://www.infowars.com/articles/ps/
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http://pauliecannoli.wordpress.com/2007/01/09/texas-prison-camp-future-american-gulag/
I continue to be amazed at how statist my state is getting.
And it’s not just Texas. Make sure to check out the rest of the story at Infowars!
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The current memes floating around that area are absolutely terrifying.
I grew up near there, back in happier and more innocent days.
As a youth seeking adventure, I left at the first opportunity,
oblivious to what would happen in the years to come.
Fast-Forward to the Present:
Our family just moved back to the Austin area last year,
but I find it has changed in a drastic, dark manner.
We spent a few weeks looking for a home in the area around Hutto,
but conversations with people in the area just made me physicaly ill.
The undertones of every dialogue were reminiscent of what you would expect
to encounter on a journey to the Land of Mordor – muzzled suspicions interspersed with
moments of silence where natives were self-censoring comments to be left unspoken.
Because I found the atmosphere nauseating beyond description
we promptly sought out accommodation to the southwest
where people were at least more mercantile and less ‘spooky’ (for lack of a better term).
Nothing good will come of this area.
It is not simply a cluster of totalitarian instigation
(an item any legal professional in the region will attest to))
but rather a whole geographic domain smothered under the influence of some dark force
perceptible only in unspoken dialogues locked behind suspicion-tainted countenances.
A popular local Tee-shirt says ‘Keep Austin Weird’
but the spirit pervading Hutto is not what that author had in mind.
The atmosphere around Hutto goes beyond weird – it is terrifying.
Stay away from Hutto if you value your soul.
[...] A Bunch Of Stuff In One Post Alex Jones reports that Congress has passed anti-freedom legislation which would make blogs like this one register as “lobbyists” with the government. That, and Manchurian Candidate John McCain wants to fine us $300,000 for anything the regime finds offensive. After that, see http://lastfreevoice.wordpress.com/2007/01/09/ texas-prison-camp-future-american-gulag/. [...]
[...] to a story we covered earlier. Children locked up — at a [...]