Jonathan Blitzer
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And there certainly isn't one in my lifetime, not on a scale like this.
And of course, just to underscore your point, Fort Bliss was never one of the major sites for Japanese internment in the 1940s, but it was a site.
There were 56 people who were held there
in the early 1940s as so-called alien enemies.
That connection is also literal.
What happened with Camp East Montana was, from the very beginning, there were reports of just the awfulness of the conditions.
And there were so many complaints about it that in September of 2025,
the Government Accountability Office and ICE itself send officials to do a site visit, which by the way, was the first time that someone from ICE actually went to inspect the site, which is itself a violation of ICE protocol.
I mean, they've stood up a facility and no one from the agency has inspected it to be sure that it's in compliance with the most basic elements of code.
So already as early as September of 2025, within a month or so of the facility opening,
The government knew just the gravity of what was being alleged there.
And actually, you quoted earlier some of the testimony of people who are cleaning up the bathroom with their own underwear and so on.
That wasn't even said to me.
That was actually said to the American Civil Liberties Union, which around this time was also taking declarations from people who were being held there.
So there was like an increasing awareness of what was going on there.
And there was very good reporting on it, but it hadn't really, the monstrousness of what was happening there had really penetrated public consciousness.
And what I think changed that was between December 2025 and
And mid-January 2026, in a span of like 40-odd days, there were three deaths at Camp East Montana.
The second of those three deaths was a case of a Cuban man named Geraldo de Mascampos, who actually, like Ray, had come to the United States in the 1990s, had family in Rochester, New York.
He did have a criminal record.
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