#necropolitics — Public Fediverse posts
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Australians who need care because of age or disability shouldn’t be reduced to an algorithm >>
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/02/aged-care-disability-australia-algorithmsWhen automated decision-making (algorithm) is in charge to ration care it could suggest forced euthanasia
Euthanasia Program and Aktion T4, The goal of the Nazi Euthanasia Program was to kill people with mental and physical disabilities. >>
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/euthanasia-program#SocialServices #care #governance #algorithm #efficiency #SystemicNeglect #abandonment #GlobalTrends #biopolitics #violence #HumanOversight #euthanasia #AktionT4 #necropolitics
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The medical examiner in El Paso, Texas, has ruled that Geraldo Lunas Campos's death was, in fact, a homicide. Lunas Campos died Jan. 3 at the Camp East Montana site at Fort Bliss in El Paso. He's the one who ICE claimed was trying to commit suicide, so the staff at the facility restrained and ultimately killed him to stop him from killing himself. So even if he did want to commit suicide, that would only mean that he died anyway, but with more pain, less agency, and less dignity.
I'm curious what the consequences will be for the medical examiner, but regardless, I do know that there's no way this administration is going to take action to stop people from dying at disproportionate rates at Camp East Montana unless they're somehow forced to. Maybe the courts can do that, but it's just as likely that they can't or, if they can, that it won't be until after the camp has claimed even more lives.
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/01/21/texas-el-paso-immigrant-death-ice-custody-homicide/
#ICE #FuckICE #ElPaso #FortBliss #CampEastMontana #DeathInCustody #necropolitics #GeraldoLunasCampos #ReneeGood
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A coalition of organizations in the Southwest is demanding the closure of Camp East Montana following three different deaths in custody there in recent months.
From the article:
Diaz died on Wednesday, Jan. 14, at Camp East Montana. He was pronounced deceased at 4:09 p.m., and his death was a presumed suicide, according to ICE. However, the official cause of his death remains under investigation.
The announcement of Diaz’s death comes just days after The Washington Post reported last week that 55-year-old Geraldo Lunas Campos’ death — the second detainee who died at the detention center — could be ruled as a homicide.
The coalition said that Lunas Campos “died from asphyxiation after guards choked him to death, and that federal authorities subsequently are threatening to deport key witnesses to the incident, raising grave concerns about accountability and efforts to suppress evidence of abuse at the facility.”
Additionally, Francisco Gaspar Cristobal Andres was the first detainee held at the Fort Bliss immigration facility to die. The 48-year-old man from Guatemala was taken to the hospital on Nov. 16 and died on Dec. 3 of “suspected natural causes.”
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The parents of Ismael Ayala-Uribe, who died of sepsis in ICE custody last September, have filed a wrongful death suit against the agency. They also name the owner of the private prison where he was held and the health care contractor they brought in as defendants.
The lawsuit alleges that, for weeks, Ayala-Uribe complained of “intense and progressive physical pain, including abdominal pain, severe buttock pain, persistent fever, chills, extreme weakness, and continuous intestinal internal pain related to internal bleeding” and that all he ever got was a "cursory assessment" and some over-the-counter pain meds.
ICE, classy as ever, issued a "Detainee Death Report" that leads not with the circumstances of Ayala-Uribe's death, but rather with his crime of being born in the wrong place and the fact that he had a couple of DUI convictions, most recently six years earlier, as though these make a slow, painful death in their custody seem reasonable.
#FuckICE #ICE #ReneeGood #fascism #Necropolitics #DeathInCustody