Texas Prison Camp
Future American Gulag?

Detention facility currently holds as many as 200 children incarcerated
after midnight arrests

Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones

Prison Planet

Monday, January 8, 2007

A detention camp in Taylor Texas that currently holds hundreds of rebuffed
asylum seekers who legally entered the country, half of which are children
swept up in midnight raids, is a potential prime location for the enforced
transfer of American citizens during a time of national emergency.

The privatized Hutto jail, which is also administered by Homeland Security
and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), currently interns political
asylum seekers who came to the U.S. on legal visas. Most
of them are families including pregnant women and children who have
never been accused of any wrongdoing but are forced to endure squalid
conditions inside literal concentration camps.

In 2004 the facility was on the verge of being shutdown due to lack
of occupancy but new immigration policies, allied to the burgeoning
growth of the prison industry and future plans to detain American citizens
on masse, have revived the potential scope of the camp, and a new
contract to intern 600 individuals was finalized with immigration
authorities in December 2005.

The facility is euphemistically called a "Residential Center,"
yet charges
of overcrowding and poor conditions are rife, with an estimated
645 people filling a facility that has only 512 beds.

"Innocent children should not be jailed and forced to live under
traumatizing and dehumanizing conditions," said a statement from
Texans United for Families, an organization that recently held a vigil
protest at the facility. "It is bad policy and an impractical and
inhumane response to a growing refugee crisis. The U.S. should seek
alternatives to detention while making sure that it legislates policies
that support families and keep them together and out of jail."

The Infowars team recently visited the facility and were promptly told
to leave the premises before having their names taken, but not before
they were able to get footage of the camp "playground" where
some of the children were playing behind giant mesh barbed wire. The
children were kept indoors throughout the taping and were only allowed
out when the film crew left to eat lunch. View the video below.

One local said that other residents of the town were completely oblivious
to the fact that the camp even existed, never mind its function and
purpose.

Suspicions will undoubtedly be cast as to whether the facility in Tyler
is part of a wider agenda to set up a network of internment camps that
will be used to forcibly detain American citizens under emergency provisions.
The pretext for this was set in the summer of 2004, when thousands of
protesters in New York for the Republican National Convention were forcibly
detained, some for over 24 hours, without charge in an asbestos infested
disused bus facility known as Pier
57, or "Guantanamo on the Hudson" as other labeled it.

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During the Iran Contra hearings in the 80's, previously classified
information came to light about Continuity of Government (CoG) procedures
in times of national crisis. The masterminds behind these programs were
Oliver North, Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney and the Rex-84
'readiness exercise' discussed the plan to round up immigrants and detain
them in internment camps in the context of uncontrolled population movements
across the Mexican border.

The real agenda was to use the cover of rounding up immigrants and
illegal aliens as a smokescreen for targeting political dissidents and
American citizens . From 1967 to 1971 the FBI kept a list of persons
to be rounded up as subversive, dubbed the "ADEX" list.

Since 9/11 shadow government and CoG programs that were outlined in
Rex-84 have been activated, including mass warrantless wiretapping of
American citizens. The internment camp program is being readied for
execution following
the announcement on January 24th that Halliburton subsidiary KBR
(formerly Brown and Root) had been awarded a $385 million contingency
contract by the Department of Homeland Security to build detention camps.

A much discussed and circulated report, the Pentagon's
Civilian Inmate Labor Program, has recently been updated and the
revision details a "template for developing agreements" between
the Army and corrections facilities for the use of civilian inmate labor
on Army installations."

The pretext given for which the camps would be used as reported by
the New
York Times was stated as, "an unexpected influx of immigrants,
to house people in the event of a natural disaster or for new programs
that require additional detention space."

Following the news first given wide attention by this website, that
Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root had been awarded a $385
million dollar contract by Homeland Security to construct detention
and processing facilities in the event of a national emergency, the
Alternet
website put together an alarming report that collated all the latest
information on plans to initiate internment of political subversives
and Muslims after the next major terror attack in the U.S.

The article highlighted the disturbing comments of Sen. Lindsey Graham,
who encouraged torture supporting Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
to target, "Fifth Columnists" Americans who show disloyalty
and sympathize with "the enemy," whoever that enemy may be.

Respected author Peter Dale Scott speculated that the "detention
centers could be used to detain American citizens if the Bush administration
were to declare martial law."

Daniel Ellsberg, former Special Assistant to Assistant Secretary of
Defense, called the plan, "preparation for a roundup after the
next 9/11 for Mid-Easterners, Muslims and possibly dissenters. They've
already done this on a smaller scale, with the 'special registration'
detentions of immigrant men from Muslim countries, and with Guantanamo."

One of the last acts of Congress before Christmas was to send President
Bush a bill that establishes a $38 million program of National Park
Service grants to preserve
Japanese POW internment camps in Hawaii, California, Arizona, Arkansas,
Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and Idaho. Is this really in the name of historical
interest or does it dovetail with programs on the books to intern hundreds
of thousands of dissidents in a time of crisis?