Locked Down, Rounded Up, Warehoused: The Rise of America’s Concentration Camps

Federal agents on the roof of the ICE facility in Portland, OR. Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair

In 2021, amid a global pandemic, warnings that the federal government might repurpose warehouses into detention facilities on American soil were dismissed as speculative, alarmist, even conspiratorial.

Five years later, what was speculation is a blueprint for locking up whomever the government chooses to target.

According to investigative reports, the Department of Homeland Security...