One of the more fascinating and horrible details in Reuters’ thoroughly fascinating and horrible long-form report
on Trump’s cruel border policies is this nugget: ICE hacked the
risk-assessment tool it used to decide whom to imprison so that it
recommended that everyone should be detained.
This gave ICE a kind of empirical facewash for its racist and inhumane
policies: they could claim that the computer forced them to imprison
people by identifying them as high-risk. The policy let ICE triple its
detention rate, imprisoning 43,000 people.
On this day, 26 June 1945, Spanish anti-fascist prisoners in Britain who had been locked up alongside Nazi prisoners of war launched a hunger strike. 226 Spanish civil war fighters, many of whom also fought in the French resistance, were detained in Britain as enemy POWs alongside the fascists they fought against. The following month, one of them committed suicide in protest. These actions led to the men being transferred to a single camp in Chorley, Lancashire, where they were at least allowed to identify themselves as republicans. There, they took strike action the following January, and were eventually either released or deported during 1946. More info here: https://libcom.org/history/spanish-anti-fascist-prisoners-war-lancashire-1944-46https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1154763671375448/?type=3
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