Sheriff Arpaio had the right idea...
Posted on 03/22/2025 12:37:54 PM PDT by Morgana
President Donald Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is reopening an immigration detention center in Baldwin, Michigan, that President Joe Biden had shut down. The detention center will help ICE hold nearly 2,000 illegal aliens in custody.
This week, GEO Group announced a contract with ICE to reopen the immigration detention center in Baldwin, which will have the capacity to hold about 1,800 illegal aliens so they are not released into American communities.
“We expect that our company-owned North Lake Facility in Michigan will play an important role in helping meet the need for increased federal immigration processing center bed space,” GEO Group Executive Chairman George Zoley said in a statement.
A source close to the matter told Breitbart News that the detention center was closed by the Biden administration as part of their plan to end all private contracts with the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) — an order that eliminated available bed space for thousands of criminals.
Before its closure, the detention center held criminal illegal aliens convicted of federal crimes and was a big economic driver in the small community of fewer than 1,000 residents.
The source told Breitbart News that the Trump administration is working on reopening more of these idled detention centers that Biden closed.
RJ Hauman, president of the National Immigration Center for Enforcement (NICE), said Trump is doing all he can to reopen and repurpose shuttered detention centers to ensure ICE has as much bed space as possible to hold criminal illegal aliens.
Congress must beef up ICE funding so the agency can properly carry out Trump’s mass deportation agenda, Hauman told Breitbart News.
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Get them OUTTA here!!
Sheriff Arpaio had the right idea...
Put some Feral judges in it.
“...which will have the capacity to hold about 1,800 illegal aliens so they are not released into American communities.”
Why make it so hard? Just release them back into Mexico. They are no more citizens released into our communitees as illegals than they would be outside our border. Mexico gets a free pass here as they go through them like a screen door and they claim to be a santuary country. If they don’t legally enter America, they aren’t our problem. And we didn’t ask for them anymore than Mexico did. But they are not being part of the answer, just a feeding tube.
President Trump did mention at least twice (once in front of me at a rally) to Sheriff Joe that he would hire him.
I mentioned to Sheriff Joe on X that he should take that offer and he acknowledged my comment.
The detention center should have a GIANT toilet with a GIANT flush handle. Then the illegals could be sent “home” hundreds per flush.
We’re not going to get them outa here one by one and they have to be held someplace. Like it or not, they have to be processed individually. We want them removed by bus loads or plane loads. Common sense.
Oh boy. This is going to cause Sandy Cortez and Hakeem Jeffries to fart even harder.
I sure liked ole Joe.
“I sure liked ole Joe.”
Me, too no nonsense. No coddling. You did not want to go to his jail and wear pink underwear and broil in the 115 degree heat.
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Any more judges weighing in?
I remember when the ACLU complained that Men were on a chain gang & the women prisoners were NOT on a chain gang.
SOOOOOOOo JOE PUT THE WOMEN ON THE CHAIN GANGS, ALSO-—
BREAKING ROCKS.
THEY WERE NOT “PROCESSED” INDIVIDUALLY WHEN THEY CAME INTO THE USA.
SEND THEM BACK AS FAST AS POSSIBLE.
“Like it or not, they have to be processed individually.”
There’s way too much emphasis on bureaucratic process. Just put them on planes and busses and ship them out. Let Mexico sort them out.
If we did that, there wouldn’t be any need for “processing centers.”
In 1900, the process for handling illegal aliens was rudimentary compared to modern systems, shaped by a patchwork of early federal immigration laws and local enforcement. At that time, the concept of "illegal alien" was less defined, as immigration controls were still evolving, but deportation did occur under specific conditions."In 1900, the process for handling illegal aliens was rudimentary compared to modern systems" -- "Rudimentary" and FAST are good. Bring back the no-nonsense "blunt tool."The U.S. Immigration Service, established in 1891 under the Treasury Department, oversaw entry at ports like Ellis Island, where most immigrants arrived. By 1900, the 1891 Immigration Act was the key federal law governing deportation. It allowed officials to exclude or deport immigrants deemed "undesirable"—categories like paupers, those likely to become public charges, people with contagious diseases, or criminals convicted of felonies involving "moral turpitude." If someone slipped through initial inspection and was later found in the country illegally (e.g., bypassing a port or overstaying), they could be targeted for removal within one year of entry, though enforcement was spotty.
Processing started with detection. At ports, inspectors conducted interviews and medical exams—questions about occupation, funds, and destination, plus checks for diseases like trachoma. If an immigrant failed (say, they had no money or a visible illness), they’d face a Board of Special Inquiry, a three-person panel at the port. This wasn’t a full court; it was administrative, quick, and often final. If denied entry, they were detained briefly—sometimes days, sometimes weeks—then shipped back on the same steamship that brought them, at the company’s expense. For those already inland, local police or immigration agents might arrest them based on tips or raids, though this was rare outside major cities.
Deportation itself was logistically simple but harsh. No formal immigration courts existed yet—those came later, with the 1940s Alien Registration Act formalizing judicial review. In 1900, an inspector’s decision, maybe rubber-stamped by a supervisor, was enough. Deportees were held in local jails or makeshift detention (like Ellis Island’s holding rooms) until a ship was ready. Numbers were small—about 2,000 deportations annually in the 1890s, per the Immigration Service’s early records, versus millions processed. Most went back to Europe or Canada; Mexico wasn’t a focus yet.
No due process as we’d recognize it applied. The Supreme Court’s 1893 Fong Yue Ting v. United States ruling had already established that deportation was a civil action, not a criminal punishment, so immigrants had no right to a trial. Chinese immigrants, under the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, faced even stricter scrutiny—caught without a residency certificate, they were deported outright, often after brutal roundups in places like San Francisco.
In practice, enforcement was inconsistent. Inland deportations depended on local officials spotting someone—say, a laborer with no papers—or a complaint from a citizen. Corruption was rife; bribes could dodge the system. Data’s thin, but historians estimate only a fraction of illegal entrants were caught, given the porous borders and limited federal reach. The process was less about mass sweeps and more about symbolic gatekeeping at entry points.
So, in 1900, illegal aliens were processed through a mix of port inspections and ad hoc inland arrests, judged by immigration officers with broad power, detained briefly, and shipped out with little recourse. It was a blunt tool, not a refined system.
The pics remind me of evenings in Camp Algiers and Camp Tunisia at the firing ranges in Grafenwöhr, Germany, minus the prisoners, of course.
Were your uniforms different?
Along with the domestic terrorists and antifa goons (but I’m just repeating myself).
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