Jonathan Blitzer
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 15 Jul
Jonathan Blitzer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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and says to the detainees there, all right, who's ready to leave?
And this is true all across the country at ICE detention centers.
Basically, the idea, they're weaponizing detention.
These are people who have been arrested and detained for civil, not criminal infractions.
The vast majority of them have no criminal records.
And they're being put in settings where the specific idea from the administration is, if we treat them badly enough, if we torture them enough, they'll just throw in the towel and abandon whatever legal case they might have.
And everyone describes basically trying to withstand that pressure for as long as they can.
And Ray ultimately kind of crumbled when he started to think, okay, my symptoms are getting more serious.
What would happen if I went into shock and needed to be taken to an emergency room?
These same people who won't even let me see a doctor, won't even give me my medication.
Are they going to like call an ambulance for me?
No, I'm going to die in here.
And he's meeting people, by the way, who've been held there for two months, three months, four months.
And he's thinking, okay, so this isn't ending anytime soon.
Initially, he thought, okay, whatever.
I can fight this out for a couple of weeks.
I'm tough.
But he had really no choice but to just get out of there.
I don't think it's a stretch at all to reach for the comparison to Japanese internment.
And I have to say, this is like a kind of emotional and intellectual struggle for me reporting this stuff is you're trying to find the nearest parallel.
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