Jonathan Blitzer
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the moment that she was arrested was like, mom, don't sign anything.
And she repeats that over and over in her head.
And, you know, she is basically determined not to be pressured into leaving.
And this at a time, of course, when half of the people in her unit agree to be deported.
You know, Lydia, as someone who was arrested in Minnesota as part of Operation Metro Surge,
was basically shunted to Texas at a time when the administration was using Camp East Montana to deal with the high number of arrests that it was making in another state.
And so the fifth and final tent that was constructed at Camp East Montana was used largely, if not entirely, for people who were arrested in Minnesota.
And, you know, in...
Sure, there's already chaos, you know, raining at Camp East Montana, but they're going to all of whatever protocols, however meager they were, are out the window for this population.
And so it was three weeks before Lydia actually got the full health screening that you normally get when you enter a facility.
So she, for three weeks, was essentially wearing the clothes that she was arrested in.
She slept at night in the jacket that she was arrested in.
At one point, she got COVID in her tent and only found out later that that tent was full of people with COVID.
And jail authorities put up signs outside the tent to warn contractors not to go in there because people had COVID.
But the people inside the tent weren't told.
So she has COVID.
She's going through all of this.
And, you know, again, it just – it reinforces a point you made earlier that I can't stress enough, which is –
The administration is using immigration detention to try to effectuate this goal of forcing more deportations.
Immigration detention, it cannot be said enough, is not supposed to be punitive.
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