{"id":3292,"date":"2026-07-14T22:29:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T22:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peoplescenteredhumanrights.com\/?p=3292"},"modified":"2026-07-14T23:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T23:08:12","slug":"immigrant-detention-black-mass-incarceration-confinement-of-indigenous-peoples-interconnected-technologies-of-racialized-fascist-domination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peoplescenteredhumanrights.com\/es\/immigrant-detention-black-mass-incarceration-confinement-of-indigenous-peoples-interconnected-technologies-of-racialized-fascist-domination\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigrant detention, Black mass incarceration, confinement of Indigenous peoples: Interconnected technologies of racialized Fascist domination"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Immigrant detention, Black mass incarceration, confinement of Indigenous peoples: Interconnected technologies of racialized Fascist domination<\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is clear that with the finals of the World Cup happening 10 miles away from Delaney Hall, a concentration camp full of global south citizens, the US, ICE and affiliated gangster Police Departments are abusing migrants, criminalizing support and dissent. The expansive carceral state that now includes the warehousing of detainees for the better part of two decades is yet another glaring example of the US\u2019s lawlessness and gangsterism. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(<\/em>Black Alliance for Peace Activist, Micaela Bastidas)<\/em><\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

GEO Group, the private prison company operating the immigrant detention center known as Delaney Hall, represents the merging of state responsibilities and private capital that is the hallmark of the fascist governing logic of crisis-ridden, late-stage capitalism. This stage of monopoly capital, confronting the irreconcilable contradictions embedded in its own structure, requires that all pretense of a commitment to the values and practices of liberal democracy\u2014championed by elements of the Enlightenment bourgeoisie, or middle class, at the height of its ascendancy in Europe\u2014be jettisoned as a burden to the continued hegemony of capitalist rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The promise of liberal democracy was always a fictitious construction meant to obscure the reality of the oligarchic capitalist dictatorships that emerged in the West, drawing their material base and power from genocide and enslavement in what became the “Americas,” and later from global Western colonialism, representing the first wave of global fascism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are currently experiencing the third wave of fascism. The first wave was the European colonial\/global conquest that began in 1492, the second wave was interwar European fascism of the 1920s and 1930s when colonial fascism was reintroduced into European politics as a result of the post-imperialist war capitalist crisis, third is the contemporary period that began after the capitalist crisis of 2008 and intensified with Trump, Biden and the return of Trump in 2025. This contemporary wave of neofascism has its own particularities, even though its underlying class logic remains rooted in racialization and extreme nationalism, operationalized through extreme forms of state terror, militarism, and the most advanced techniques of psychological manipulation ever devised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These particular forms are what the Bulletin on U.S. Domestic Repression and Militarization<\/em> will examine below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the defining features of neofascism in the United States is its particular forms of racialization and the systematic use of the national security state apparatus to manage, control, and contain populations that capitalist rulers have deemed threatening, superfluous, or disposable. One of the principal mechanisms of this containment is reflected in the policies of immigrant detention and the mass incarceration of African Americans and Indigenous peoples. But these institutions are only part of a broader system of comprehensive state violence. This year alone, at least 22 people have died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody or as a result of various forms of ICE violence as of early July 2026, including another ICE shooting on July 13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Immigrant detention is a tool of racialized social control. This reality is reflected in the struggle unfolding at the immigrant detention center known as Delaney Hall in New Jersey. GEO Group’s role highlights the convergence of profit and incarceration, revealing Delaney Hall as far more than an immigration processing center. But what makes Delaney Hall especially significant is that it has become a site of resistance. The detainees embarked on a hunger and labor strike demanding improved conditions, but more importantly, an end to their detention. That resistance was met with systematic state violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other major issue we want to bring to the attention of the activist community and the general public is the series of policies enacted over the last several years that have dramatically expanded the repressive capacity of the state. One of the most dangerous, yet least understood, is NSPM-7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NSPM-7 is a domestic counterinsurgency mechanism that is foundational to the consolidation of the neofascist expansion of the U.S. national security state. It represents the contemporary iteration of state repression historically directed against Black liberation organizations, Indigenous movements, labor militants, Anti-war organizers, and other dissident political currents in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, this memorandum is even more explicit and comprehensive in its counterintelligence objectives. It instrumentalizes and expands the concept of “terrorism” to encompass activities that were previously recognized as fundamental democratic and human rights, including freedom of assembly, freedom of speech, and the coordination of dissident organizations across state lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NSPM-7 expands counterterrorism authorities into the realm of domestic political dissent. It integrates federal, state, and local law enforcement through Joint Terrorism Task Forces. It potentially legitimizes expanded surveillance of social movements. It contributes to the securitization of protest, including anti-racist, pro-migrant, and, in the ultimate Orwellian inversion, explicitly targets anti-fascist organizing. In other words, in the midst of the consolidation of fascism in the United States, it criminalizes anti-fascist opposition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The objective of this Bulletin<\/em> is not to frighten but to inform. We are confronting a grave situation in the United States. It has become increasingly clear that both dominant political parties have abandoned any meaningful commitment to the defense of fundamental human rights. The state has become an instrument for the naked perpetuation of the rule of capital, translated into policies that criminalize opposition and increasingly even dissent itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet we must resist. We must pledge our non-cooperation with immorality. But to be effective, we must also be informed and prepared to organize against the many ways concentrated power moves to crush the will of the people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ajamu Baraka<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director,<\/strong> Proyecto Norte-Sur para los Derechos Humanos Centrados en las Personas<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Featured Articles<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biddeford shooting victim was not ICE\u2019s intended target, officials say<\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On July 13th<\/sup>, another immigrant\/migrant was killed by ICE agents in Biddeford, Maine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Protests are growing after a man identified as a 26-year-old from Colombia was fatally shot. Immigration advocates say he was authorized to work in the U.S.: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

July 13, 2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Drew Johnson Staff Writer<\/em> <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biddeford looking to aid residents in wake of tragedy, mayor says<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As protesters continued to line the corner of Main and Water streets by Mechanics Park, Biddeford Mayor Liam LaFountain stopped to talk with reporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The only new information he\u2019s learned about Monday morning\u2019s shooting since a statement he made earlier in the day came from Sen. Angus King\u2019s office, he said, who earlier confirmed with federal officials that the victim was not the target of ICE agents\u2019 operation Monday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A federal immigration agent shot a man in Biddeford on Monday morning after he allegedly drove \u201cin the direction of the officer\u201d as he tried to flee, according to the Office of the Maine Attorney General.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spokespeople for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Department of Homeland Security have not commented on the shooting, which occurred just before 7:18 a.m. Monday. Biddeford police confirmed that the incident involved ICE agents and that the police department\u2019s involvement was limited to providing security at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The victim of a fatal shooting that involved U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents is visible at the scene. (Gregory Rec\/Staff Photographer) Editor\u2019s note: The Portland Press Herald is publishing this photograph because it reflects the reality of current immigration enforcement operations in Maine and throughout the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sen. Angus King and Rep. Chellie Pingree said they\u2019ve learned little from federal agencies about the shooting and both believe agents were not equipped with body cameras.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are some of the key updates from our coverage of Monday\u2019s shooting:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Residents say ICE activity had been increasing in the area in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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