Jonathan Blitzer
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490 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
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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I mean, I don't know, like the IT of it.
The kind of generic response that you'd get if you type someone's name in was contact the local ICE office for more information.
And so these people are really being held incommunicado without any obvious evidence of where they are or what's happening to them.
You know, Ray's wife at a certain point said to me, she's an incredibly smart, interesting person who is really eloquent about all of this as just like a smart, ordinary person who's like trying to make sense of what it means here.
She is an American citizen is like watching her husband.
put through this ringer.
She said, in many ways, the people being held at Camp East Montana were less than prisoners.
And that's exactly it.
It's like, you know, and this is the thing, by the way, that also scared Ray once he got inside.
Yeah.
He knows.
And actually his perspective was meaningful for me because it kind of put, it allowed me to put some of this stuff in context.
I mean, he'd been interned at Guantanamo Bay for 11 months in the mid 1990s, had been held in a Florida state prison for five years.
And these are not places that coddle detainees.
And the thing that freaked him out from day one at Camp East Montana was just the level of chaos.
Like the fact that there was no protocol at all in place.
You know, you'd say to a guard, I'm a diabetic as Ray is, I have medication I have to take.
And the guard would say,
We don't care.
You know, he never got his medication, literally never got his medication.
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