cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/40106587
It’s been 50 years since Godfrey Wade arrived to the United States from Jamaica at the age of 15 with his mother, moving to New York with a green card that granted him permanent residency.
The Black man enlisted in the U.S. Army a few years later, spending eight years in the service, where he was primarily stationed in Germany before he received an honorable discharge. He then began a civilian life in Georgia while raising a family, working as a fashion designer, master tailor, tennis coach and chef over the years while staying out of trouble.
That is, until September, when he was pulled over in Conyers, Georgia, for failing to use a turn signal, which was when police discovered he was driving without a license and arrested him.
. . . He has been incarcerated in overcrowded ICE detention centers since the arrest, a three-month ordeal where he was forced to sleep on a makeshift bed on the ground for the first 12 days, according to 11 Alive News.
In a telephone interview with local media from the Stewart Detention Center in Stewart County, Georgia, Wade said there are only two working urinals for an entire pod of 80 people.
“We don’t have any bunk space,” he told the news station. “We’re given what we call boats, and those are placed on the floor with a two-inch mat.”
“There’s sewage water flowing on the ground,” he said.
11 Alive News also reported that it had obtained records of the Office of Detention Oversight, a unit within U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that oversees the federal detention centers, which revealed 12 deficiencies within the Stewart Detention Center related to health and safety, food service, phone access, use of force, and more.
“The agency also noted violations of the required 12-to-1 detainee-to-toilet ratio,” 11 Alive News reported, adding that the private for-profit company that runs the detention center, CoreCivic, has ignored various inquires by reporters seeking comment.
But the Trump administration has repeatedly demonstrated it believes it is above the law and the Constitution.
That doesn’t really fit. 50 years is way before this administration and their anti immigrant psychosis. That’s on Trump/ICE, not him supporting the wrong people.
Also, I might have missed it, but I didn’t see anywhere in the article actually stating that he supported Trump
Exactly, he supported the nation, not the lunatic in chief.
He defended a system that didn‘t jail Trump after January 6, for starters.
Well no he was out of the military by then. Also we all voted for that system so probably not a good time to throw stones yeah?
Even if he was currently in the military at the time, it’s not exactly something you can just drop when you feel like, at least not without risking jail yourself.
If not throw stone snow, when?
Never has the US military been a good institution, nor the US been a good country.
I find it hard to feel bad for veterans. They participated in something very evil. They don’t get to complain now the same evil has found them.
Good riddance!
I’m not saying they deserve none of the blame, but often you’re recruited into a system around 18, they offer to pay for you’re wildly unaffordable college education, and once you’re in, it’s illegal to leave before a certain number of years. It’s the blanket statement that frustrates me. Surely there are 18 year olds who are just trying to survive financially. They still deserve blame, but the system is predatory.
I was pretty stupid dumb when I was 18, but I wasn’t “I’ll sign up to murder people” dumb. I have very little sympathy for these people.
you may shed it, but GOP/DNC, defense contractor all profit from your misrery, thats why they do very little in remediating vet care. thats why they rely on charities, or “vet influnecers” like sinese.
I don’t understand why ICE is detaining people for moving violations in the first place?
I’m guessing they just go out and look for reasons to detain non-white people in case they can deport them?
White people have been detained too. ICE is discriminately AND indiscriminately conducting population control.
This will end. Then, everybody participating in this needs to be convicted. No “I was just following orders” or “I needed the money” excuses. Or they need to prove that they actively helped the victims.
But does the USA need to go the german/japanese route or can it be done “more peacefully” is the question I’m asking myself…
Looking at it from the outside, I believe it could be solved without all-out civil war. However, the USA are tied into lots of, erm, global stuff, and are starting to troll there the same way they do nationally, plus the whole thing of not being a reliable NATO partner anymore…
Either way, 2028 is still a long way away. Maybe things will start getting better if Dems can win back the Senate in 2026.
Honestly bold of you to assume we will ever have free and fair elections again.
Honest question though…doing the math, it sounds like he was primarily stationed in Germany between circa 1978 to 1986.
Exactly how much blood did he shed for this country in that time? Was he a tailor in the army, too? Do pinpricks count?
