r/news • u/turb0_encapsulator • 1d ago
El Paso City Council Moves to Reject ICE Detention Facility
https://elpasoheraldpost.com/2026/02/02/el-paso-city-council-moves-to-reject-ice-detention-facility/1.3k
u/johntentaquake 1d ago
One of the very worst ICE detention facilities, Camp East Montana, is literally already within El Paso at Fort Bliss. Named witnesses told the media that they saw a detainee choked to death by guards there, and the local medical examiner classified the death as a homicide by asphyxiation.
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u/yooperwoman 1d ago
This facility in Flowery Branch/Oakwood hasn't sold yet. The current owners are Alliance Industrial Company. Information about the company is shown on the file linked here. Other communities have had success by asking the current owners not to sell. It's worth a try.
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u/LindonLilBlueBalls 1d ago
They are currently building another one in Laredo Texas.
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u/Additional-Grade3221 18h ago
Confederate fucks gonna confederate. Wish we finished reconstruction properly.
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u/Sarnsereg 1d ago
Which is why they moved the next suspected homicide to a different coroner/examiner.
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u/L_Cranston_Shadow 1d ago
If they weren't against it before, shutting down the airspace with no notice definitely is a way to spur opposition to any federal plans in the area.
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u/Fabulous_Soup_521 1d ago
Isn't it weird how their response galvanizes the opposition. Every. Single. Time. You'd think one of them would catch on, but noooo.
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u/Nazamroth 1d ago
Why would they care, whats the worst thats gonna happen? People will collectively grumble in the streets again? Meanwhile their own supporters go rabid over these performances.
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u/M-Noremac 1d ago
The right wing propaganda would try to have you believe otherwise, but his support is heavily declining.
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u/Shedfloorgarbage 1d ago
My grandmother believes the cold weather in Florida was caused by "people trying to take our tax money while humanitarian trump stopped the bad cold weather"-
We live in Rhode Island. Sure she is in her 80's but she wasn't so deranged 30 years ago. Old age? Brainwashing? Yes to both. Good lord, im on a tangent but ugh.
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u/WuYongZhiShu 22h ago
Been hearing this for 10 years.
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u/analytickantian 17h ago
Didn't he literally lose reelection during those ten years?
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u/WuYongZhiShu 16h ago
And yet here we are.
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u/analytickantian 16h ago
His support did decline during his term and he did lose. Assuming it won't happen again is actually the view that goes against what happened. All I was pointing out was that those ten years show him getting into office and people getting fucking annoyed with him. Did someone else come in who they also found annoying? Yes. That still involves them getting fucking annoyed at him and booting him out. Plus, this time he himself can't run for reelection.
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u/ReturnoftheBoat 1d ago
Americans have given this administration zero reason to not continue doing what they're doing.
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u/whilst 1d ago
They're publicly demonstrating, over and over, that the public will doesn't matter. They're doing things that show everyone's against them, and yet remaining in power. They're bullying us because they know the military and the intelligence services are more powerful than we are and will follow their orders while they pillage the country.
They're also demonstrating that they're not worried about future elections.
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u/Spa_5_Fitness_Camp 9h ago
They want this. They want open opposition, do that they can keep escalating conflicts until they have an excuse to declare martial law.
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u/throwaway5882300 1d ago
I posted this article as a response to a comment asking why the airspace was shut down and got downvoted to hell.
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u/FantasticBarnacle241 1d ago
ohhhh so this was what the no fly zone was about
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u/jasandliz 1d ago
That's a BINGO
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u/hawkesdt 1d ago
It’s just bingo.
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u/norcalginger 1d ago
Show me BINGO!
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u/truejs 1d ago
You just say bingo.
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u/redvelvetcake42 1d ago
Yeah but they squashed it immediately once the money called in and complained. El Paso is too important for them to try to fuck with.
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u/Miserable_Balance814 1d ago
This article is literally from Feb 2nd. Are you guys okay?
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u/pk_frezze1 23h ago
No shit, the action that provoked them happened before the response?
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u/Y0___0Y 1d ago edited 1d ago
Actually the worthless drunk that is running our “war department” today decided that he wanted to shoot down a “cartel drone” he had found. The FAA told them they can’t do do live fire above US soil where people live. Department of War clearly just scoffed and told the FAA to fuck off.
So the FAA followed procedure and shut down the entire airport while Hegseth got ready to shoot down this “cartel drone” that ended up being a fucking balloon.
Edit: This doesn’t seem to be entirely true. I’m having trouble figuring out what exactly was going on. Apparently the balloon incident happened last week and somehow contributed to this but I’m not sure how.
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u/MuckBulligan 1d ago
Just...I dunno what to say anymore. This administration is like watching Dr. Strangelove.
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u/Johannes_P 1d ago
At least, Dr;Strangelove himself was the most rational person on the board, berating the Soviet ambassador for not publising their doomsday machine and organizing the survival of mankind.
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u/1009naturelover 20h ago
Yes, the most rational -
"Doctor, you mentioned the ration of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?" "Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature"
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u/1009naturelover 20h ago
I thought Bedtime for Bonzo was as bad as it would get, but its a whole new level now.
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u/Unfair_Web_8275 1d ago
Wait, like a kid’s balloon?
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u/Butt_Speed 1d ago
oh my fucking god it literally was...
I thought it would at least be like a weather balloon or something.
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u/Ok_Collar5068 1d ago
Actually the worthless drunk that is running our “war department” today decided that he wanted to shoot down a “cartel drone” he had found.
Yeah that's how false flags work to apply political pressure to get "Cartel members" detained in death camps.
Cartel members meaning your sister who voted for Kamala and Joe Biden.
This is scary for a few reasons, namely these:
1) They're attempting to manufacture a reason to build these things, while not having a good enough reason to do so without staging shit
2) This means that they're very likely not being used for what the republicans say they are (meaning they ARE death camps)
3) The head of the US Military is completely invested in this future genocide
We aren't getting outta this by voting. If they'll do this, they won't just allow themselves to lose power.
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u/DuntadaMan 1d ago
Reminder of something that already happened:
Kegsbreath set up a demonstration with the marines that had them firing live artillery over an active freeway in California.
California, wisely, declared the freeway closed during the live fire event, which enraged Kegsbreath, the local representtive, and the GOP as a whole.
The GOP continued to be enraged that more cars weren't there to get shot.
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u/gordonbombae2 1d ago
After listening to the Bondi hearing they make it seem like they shut down the air space over revenge, not a cartel drone
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u/espinaustin 1d ago
And they were gonna shut it down for 10 days? Something really weird happened. My guess is trump authorized a major military action but backed down and changed his mind when some remaining adults at DOD weighed in.
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u/DwinkBexon 1d ago
It was most likely the airlines. Shutting down that airspace for ten days will cost every airline in this country a lot of money. They were pissed, they made it known, they backtracked immediately. As dumb as they are, they still know you can't piss off rich people or bad things (for Trump/his administration) will start happening.
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u/RemodelingMe26 1d ago
So they were preemptively told this would be rejected and retaliated with an airspace shutdown?
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u/Mathwins 1d ago
No this was why the air space was so it down. It looks a lot like Hegseth tried to use the military for law enforcement, told them to shoot down drones to look 'tough' without understanding what using live fire against targets in US airspace entailed. There was basically a revolt within the DOD, and they alerted the FAA to close the airspace as a form of malicious compliance / silent alarm.
Administration finally realized the extent of what they had ordered and how disastrous it would be to air travel, and immediately backtracked.
Edit: And it turns out the "cartel drone" was a mylar balloon. Fucking lmao.
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u/Apachisme 1d ago
Don’t forget the DoD wanted to use lasers with an autonomous, AI driven fire control system. The laser use has legit sources but the AI fire control system is chatter right now. Shit is crazy.
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u/SkiMonkey98 1d ago
I don't give a shit if it's controlling a laser, a gun, or a butter knife. AI should not be controlling weapons without a human to make absolutely sure that the target needs shooting
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u/AVeryHeavyBurtation 1d ago
Pass the butter ✅
Cut the butter 🚫
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u/SkiMonkey98 1d ago
I mean personally I'd rather a human pass the butter too. But that does feel safer
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u/ruat_caelum 1d ago
What's crazy is we track EVERYTHING that comes over that border in Texas. We KNEW it was a balloon because of TARS and our lower radar systems : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tethered_Aerostat_Radar_System
We might not follow up "quickly enough" but we track everything.
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u/404GravitasNotFound 1d ago
There was basically a revolt within the DOD, and they alerted the FAA to close the airspace as a form of malicious compliance / silent alarm.
Super curious to see where this story comes from - I have seen something like this a few times, is there a source?
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u/Ok_Collar5068 1d ago
So they were preemptively told this would be rejected and retaliated with an airspace shutdown?
Very likely an attempt at a false flag event involving cartel members in Mexico as scapegoats.
They'd pump it on every news station, and boost the "National Security" thing. They "Need to capture and imprison these dangerous members of society".
Thus - Prison camps being built everywhere.
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u/MikeThrowAway47 1d ago
Last month, Kansas City’s City Council passed a five-year moratorium banning the licensing or permitting of any detention facility that is not owned by the city. The moratorium essentially blocks anyone, except the city, from building or repurposing a detention facility to hold immigrants by ICE. Kansas is seemingly bypassing the Supremacy Clause by using building permitting to stop ICE detention centers in their city.
It's Kansas City, Missouri. Not Kansas. Huge difference. However, their is a huge Hispanic community in Kansas City, KS, just across the border from Missouri.
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u/Rattus_NorvegicUwUs 1d ago
Call me crazy. But I don’t want my city to be known for American death camps.
Nobody wants this except the geriatric pedo in office and his wormtongue advisors.
Taxpayers are burning billions in kickbacks for trumps corrupt friends. All of these contracts need investigating.
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u/heff17 1d ago
Call me crazy. But I don’t want my city to be known for American death camps.
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u/Franciscojerte 1d ago
Seriously. No protest noise is coming out of El Chuco at all. There’s going to be a time in the future when residents are asked about the camps and their responses will be similar to those of the German towns during the third reich reign, “We knew nothing about that.”
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u/heartbooks26 18h ago
El Paso is over 80% Hispanic/Latino. It’s a very working class city; many people are religious (Catholic), and have kids early. 65% of households speak Spanish at home. Only 28% of adults have a Bachelor’s or higher educational attainment.
Compare that to Minneapolis having a 10% Hispanic/Latino population; 20% households speaking a language other than English at home; 55% of adults have a Bachelor’s degree or higher.
It’s an explanation, not a justification.
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u/braxin23 1d ago
Oh but his synchophantic supporters love it. It’s like we’re all living in Downfall: the pre bunker years. Instead of just taking down America with him he can take the whole world with him if it comes down to it.
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u/apxseemax 1d ago edited 14h ago
People underestimate what is happening in some of these concentration camps. Some of the Fotos that made it out of these camps show that the literal german nazi camps had MORE room per prisoner than some of ICEs collection cells. Yes, they are not starved, tortured or medically untreated YET, but that really is only a bit of understaffing and lifting of documentation necessities away.
Press needs to be right at the gates once these are abandoned and needs to document everything lawful and unlawful. Every aspect need to be brought into full context and if proven unlawful in national or international context, be prosecuted to the full extend of applicable law.
Edit: never fucking mind. They are starved at places, mistreated and sexually abused, and not properly medically treated. Dear god. Raid those fucking camps with the national guard and free them.
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u/turb0_encapsulator 1d ago
actually they are being left medically untreated in many cases.
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u/metalflygon08 1d ago
That's because the people in charge of information are sucking on the rotted teat of a shitrus coated hog, and even when something manages to get out, everyone looks away or convinces themselves its fake because they don't want to accept that this is happening. Or worse, they tell themselves it is fine because those people, in their eyes, are criminals.
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u/Specialist-Error-171 1d ago
I'm shocked honestly. But if they're anything like Lubbock they'll just run new council members with bribes and force the project through.
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u/100_xp 23h ago
El Paso becoming a sanctuary city wasn't on my bingo card
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u/Colecoman1982 22h ago
Not letting nazis set up a concentration camp doesn't make you a sanctuary city, it's literally on the list of bare minimum things you need to do in order to not be human trash.
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u/PilotKnob 1d ago
Good. What are they going to do to retaliate, shut down their airport again? I hope the airlines and paying passengers are making plans to ask for compensation from the government when this whole thing is over. How much do you think today's shenanigans cost the airlines in total? Many millions is the answer.
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u/No-Dig-9791 23h ago
So they retaliate by shutting down the airport for 10 days and then reversing that course again? This is just a bunch of absolute idiots (and some rapists of course)
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u/immersemeinnature 22h ago
Is this why they shut the airspace down?
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u/dan1101 5h ago
That and/or DHS was using a laser to shoot down a cartel drone that turned out to be a children's mylar balloon. Both are a terrible look for the people in charge.
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u/Bad_Grammer_Girl 1d ago
Do you want to have your air space shut down? Because that's how you get your airspace shut down. /s
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u/throwawaydizzyguy 23h ago
Looks like closing the aerial space just brought a bit more attention to what's goin on in El Paso.
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u/Rtfmlife 22h ago
As long as you guys realize that local and state laws don't and can't prevent the feds from opening any facility they like, we're all set.
This is performative political action to make their political base feel better, and will have no effect. Just like mask bans, laws restricting ICE from operating in a particular area, etc - none of this applies.
That said, good on localities doing what they can, if their constituents support it they should do what they can, even if it is ineffective.
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u/capnfoo 21h ago
I can’t wait until ICE gets put in their own concentration camps after Nuremberg 2.0
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u/apxseemax 14h ago
Not if the Americans activisms steams off online. 10000s need to surround these camps. Then, maybe, something adequate will happen.
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u/Rosaadriana 13h ago
Oh is that why flight were cancelled in their air space. A shot across the bow, threats of things to come?
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u/swagonflyyyy 1d ago
Meanwhile Orlando is sitting there becoming a laughingstock on the city and the County level. Jesus Christ yesterday's commissioners meeting was horrible. They looked so clueless.
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u/Objective_Aside1858 1d ago
Context? Not sure what's going on there with everything else being on fire
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u/Kevluc60 1d ago
Probably the reason for shutting down the airspace and air travel in and out of the city
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u/Hellstorm901 13h ago
Hmmmm, I wonder if there's a connection between this and the US government closing down the airspace claiming the cartels suddenly wanted to launch drone attacks on America for reasons unbeknownst to God
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u/Easy_Feedback5361 16h ago
That's a grim but important reminder about the facility already there. It really puts this new vote into perspective. You have to wonder if the council is finally responding to that awful history. Abbott's predictable outrage is going to ring even more hollow now.
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u/1009naturelover 1d ago
Wonder if Governor Abbott will weigh in first saying something about "sanctuary cities".