"ENDGAME"-U.S. Detention Centers are Part of Long-Term DHS Plan

[kpete]

Its goal is "the removal of all removable aliens, (including illegal economic migrants, aliens who have committed criminal acts, asylum-seekers required to be retained by law) or potential terrorists."

ENDGAME http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/dhs/endgame.pdf is the policy executed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its sub-agencies, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Office of Detention and Removal (DRO), that is part of a sweeping 10-year plan (2002-2012) to: 1) apprehend, 2) incarcerate (detain), 3) "process"—(investigate and question), and 4) remove all removable aliens or potential terrorists. The order of apprehension to removal is literal, as the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under DHS shifted the traditionally two-pronged approach of 1)investigation, 2)detention-removal to a one-pronged approach in 2000: detention-first and "process" the person while incarcerated. (p. 2-7 of ENDGAME document)

This is especially troubling, as the detention-removal prong was originally set up for aliens who had committed crimes. According to ICE, the investigation prong was discarded in 2000 because incarcerating first "reduces potential demand for detention space, saves money,"increases public safety, reduces the potential for future crimes, and enhances the welfare of our society." (2-7)


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According to the Washington Post and the 9-11 Commission Report, Vice President Cheney implemented a COG plan in the form of a "shadow government" by the new name of "Continuity of Operations Plan" (COP) immediately after 9-11, which dispatched "100 senior civilian managers to live and work secretly outside Washington, activating for the first time long-standing plans to ensure survival of federal rule after catastrophic attack on the nation's capital." The extent of their operation has never been reported. (Also reported on CBS News and CNN.)

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In summary, ENDGAME is the second phase of a Reagan-era program, COG, furthered by Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld to thwart the constitutional process of succession in case of an national emergency or disaster. ENDGAME is now aligned with the immigration arm of government, and also terrorism. It's goal, or "endgame" is to round up and detain "all" deportable aliens or "potential terrorists" before 2012, some 12 million is a conservative estimate. A heady feat, but well on its way with a $400 million contingency contract awarded to Halliburton's subsidiary, Kellogg, Brown, and Root by the Department of Homeland Security.

[tekisui]

1. "potential terrorist" ---that could be anybody.

[the other one]

2. A serious threat - if it wasn't made by incompetent boobs. nt

[seemslikeadream]

3. "ENDGAME"-U.S. Detention Centers are Part of Long-Term DHS Plan

YEA FOR US

[Bonobo]

4. "Endgame"... Hmm, an "homage" to the "Ultimate Solution"? I like it!

Those guys are so clever!

O.I.L.

I.C.E.

So fucking smooth!

[IDemo]

5. Reagan didn't invent COG

It goes clear back to the Cold War and Eisenhower - > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuity_of_Operations_Plan

[pnorman]

6. Some interesting stuff elsewhereon that FAS webpage.

Project on Government Secrecy: http://www.fas.org/main/content.jsp?formAction=325&projectId=5

pnorman

[cali]

7. Time for the building of these detention centers

and the philosophy behind them to be a question in the next dem debate.