Andrea Pitzer

Andrea Pitzer, journalist and author who studies concentration camps, warns about the ‘warehousification’ of detention. Linus Chan, clinical law professor who represents people held by ICE, explains how habeas has been hollowed out. They discuss sprawling warehouse detention, legal mechanisms enabling mass imprisonment, and grassroots tactics to resist and delay these projects.

Andrea Pitzer, author of One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, dives into the alarming resurgence of Guantanamo Bay as a detention center for immigrants, challenging assumptions about its closure. She examines the complex immigration policies and the implications for human rights. With a historical perspective, Pitzer discusses the labeling of detainees and the troubling realities behind transparency in government operations. The conversation raises crucial questions about legal exceptions and the risks of repeating past injustices.

Andrea Pitzer, journalist and historian of concentration camps, and Linus Chan, law professor and detainee-rights attorney, join to unpack mass detention. They discuss the warehouse conversion of facilities, legal tweaks that hollow habeas corpus, rapid transfers that hide detainees, and local tactics to block and document expanding detention networks.