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The Concentration Camp Next Door

February 14, 2026·1 hr 20 min·5 clips
ICE transports detainees to Texas within hours to evade habeas corpus filings, leaving lawyers in the dark.
This episode investigates the Trump administration's rapid expansion of immigration detention, comparing it to historical concentration camps. Guests Linus Chan and Andrea Pitzer detail how ICE obstructs legal access, ignores court orders, and uses warehousing as a weapon, urging grassroots resistance to prevent further escalation.

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A dense legal conversation that keeps procedure and consequence tightly linked.

It follows a detention-policy dispute into the practical limits of what courts can require from the government, and keeps the legal argument tied to real consequences.

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If you want a sharp tour of how detention fights move through the courts, start here.

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