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The Hartmann Report

Daily Take: Over 70,000 People Detained in 225 Concentration Camps, With Plans to Double Them: Why Isn’t This a National Emergency?

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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🗓️ 4 February 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

ICE’s nationwide detention system continues to expand under plans that would double its size while shielding it from meaningful accountability…

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Over 70,000 people detained in 225 concentration camps with plans to double them.

1:08.5

Why isn't this a national emergency?

1:13.6

As people testified before Congress yesterday about the brutality and violence they'd suffered at the hands of ice, that massive paramilitary

1:19.2

organization was shopping for giant warehouse-style facilities they can retrofit into what

1:24.1

they euphemistically call detention centers.

1:32.3

Cable news people call them prison camps or Trump prison camps, but look at any dictionary.

1:35.4

Prisons are where people convicted of crimes are held.

1:42.8

As Merriam-Webster notes, a prison is an institution of confinement for confinement of persons convicted of serious crimes.

1:45.3

Jails are where people accused of crimes but still waiting for their day in court are held,

1:49.5

as near Miriam Webster notes, such a place under the jurisdiction of a local government

1:54.0

for the confinement of persons awaiting trials are those convicted of minor crimes.

1:58.7

But what do you call a place where people who've committed no criminal offense,

2:02.1

immigration violations are civil, not criminal infractions? The fine dictionary people at Merriam-Webster

2:08.3

note the proper term is concentration camps, a place where large numbers of people, such as

2:14.4

prisoners of war, political prisoners, refugees, or members of an

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