The largest federal prison in the nation is Fort Dix, which has a rated capacity of 4,600 people. The largest of these warehouse camps may hold more than twice that number of people.

The federal government hasn't operated a prison camp inside the United States that large since Japanese Internment.

How in the hell does anyone get to a place in their reasoning that says "yep, the government should allowed to imprison people who have done nothing wrong and are following the law as it was explained to them"?

As @isabelwilkerson.bsky.social observed, dominant caste members perceive any moves towards equal justice as intolerable attacks on their traditional unearned status & privilege. They’d rather tear down the nation than live on equal terms with the subordinate caste, & now, here we are. [gift link]

Then a federal judge ordered his release and I escorted him and his father home to Minnesota.

But now the Trump Administration is trying to take him again. They are breaking legal precedent in an attempt to break this boy’s spirit and all of the Americans who are praying for him.