Jonathan Blitzer

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The Bulwark Daily · Jonathan Blitzer: Our New Internment Camps · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

I mean, think about what happened.

Think about that plot.

You know what I mean?

And it's like, oh, it's really it's nightmarish stuff.

I mean, the tents are being erected in August when people get there and there's testimony from people.

I mean, I've interviewed people, but there's also pretty extensive testimony at this point of people arriving and basically describing like dust everywhere, dust getting inside the tents, people coughing, people struggling to breathe,

Things weren't set up, that there weren't visitation booths, there wasn't an outside recreation area, so people weren't allowed to leave the tents.

The tablets that people are supposed to use to make calls to lawyers or family members to have some semblance of contact with the outside world aren't working.

And the majority of the people who arrived in those early days at Camp East Montana were

Uh, came from the South Florida detention center, the alligator Alcatraz and, and, and many of them.

And this is like an especially concerning thing.

And in some ways, this is actually what the kind of core intuition was when I first started reporting the story is that these people had effectively been in some form or another disappeared by the state.

These are people who, if you were to look them up in what's called the ICE detainee locator, there's a website that ICE has.

And you're supposed to be able to look up someone with basic information to determine whether or not ICE is holding them at a particular detention center.

And it's supposed to say where they're being held.

A lot of people, the vast majority of people originally who were sent to Alligator Alcatraz did not appear in any of these ICE locator systems.

So family members and lawyers could not locate them.

And then the same was true of many of them after they were transferred to Camp East Montana.

And a source, an administration source told me that that was actually by design.

Someone actually went into the system.

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