I get pushback when I say: suing to force ICE to release people is likely to help ICE expand its carceral reach (e.g. by normalizing house arrest+ankle shackles).

Want to remind folks that *Guantánamo first became an open air prison camp for Haitians due to a litigation victory*

Basically, after the US-approved coup ousted Aristide in 1991, Haitians fled, and the US tried to set up what we now have with Mexico—an outsourcing of our immigration jails.

But other countries didn't bite, so the US just decided to permanently jail them on coast guard ships.

Of course, the Coast Guard ships eventually got full. So, because the US refused to take folks in, and because other countries refused to take folks in, the US basically said "fuck it" and started returning people to certain death in Haiti at the hands of a brutal military gov't.

People sued to stop that.

After initial victories (overturned eventually by the supreme court), the US still wouldn't take folks in, so it sent them to Guantánamo (which the US has controlled since 1903—when we imposed control of Guantánamo as a condition of Cuban independence).

I'm not saying don't sue, but I am saying, I think folks fighting ICE right now have a moral and strategic obligation to think ahead, w/ organizers who frankly have more range, to anticipate the next iteration/round of expansion.

Like it's . . . not a stretch to draw a direct line from the initial use of Guantánamo to cage Haitians interdicted at sea (which continues by the way), to its recent as a torture black site.