Internment camps on military bases

According to a Friday report by TIME magazine, the U.S. Navy may be planning to detain tens of thousands of immigrants (accused of illegally entering the country) in Concord, despite the fact that the Environmental Protection Agency [EPA] still lists the Concord Naval Weapons Station as a Superfund site, a designation reserved for some of the most toxic places in the country.

  SF Curbed

Despite or because of?

TIME cited a Navy draft memo that singled out potential detention locales in three states, including the Concord base, which could hold up to 47,000 people in what the publication describes as a proposed “tent city.”

I guess we haven't noticed how the large refugee camps in Europe, like the one in Calais, have turned out.

Or maybe that's why they're putting it on the Superfund site.

Potentially hazardous elements in the soil include lead, mercury, arsenic, and “unexploded ordinance.”

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[T]he Concord site’s report card also cautions about “expected groundwater contamination” and that “actions are still needed to address contamination.”

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The proposal calls for immigration camps that are “temporary and austere.”

That should help.

 ...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.