More than 30 men and only three toilets per cage in a place called Alligator Alcatraz in Florida, where attorneys are unable to reach their clients and prepare them for bond hearings. The administration is playing games with the most important component of hearing any legal claim: jurisdiction, claiming the federal task of migrant detention and deportation is somehow being handled by the state of Florida. It’s Donald Trump’s way of keeping the courts and due process out of his mass deportation operation.

On the other side of the country, more than 300 migrants were arrested last week at cannabis farms in California, where one man fell to his eventual death days later, when taken off life support. More than a dozen children were also taken into custody at that raid, as unaccompanied minors. Children were seen handcuffed at the federal building in Los Angeles, where people protesting ICE filmed their treatment for public awareness. It remains unclear whether the children seen are the same children from the cannabis farm.

There was also a report out of Northern Virginia last month that has an additional level of calculation. Word from inside the immigration hearing courtrooms in Virginia is that government prosecutors are filling the docket with as many hearings as they can in a given day, then canceling the cases. That then allows ICE agents to arrest the former legal-status seekers and process them for expedited removal, without them ever having the opportunity to make their case to the immigration judge for staying in the country. It was a tactic that started small and now appears to be a conscious strategy. The migrants who come to court just become sitting ducks for ICE agents.

And finally, there’s the stunning change in policy of ICE declaring that migrants in detention are no longer eligible for release on bond. Even when begrudingly providing due process that should be automatic, since it’s in the Constitution, the government is now going to keep them in detention as they await their day in court. There is such an enormous backlog for immigration courts, it is often a years-long wait for a hearing date. It is effectively Guantanamo Bay on U.S. soil.

The country doesn’t need The Twilight Zone, Severance, Silo, Mad Max, or any other well-received fictional stories of dystopia. We apparently just need to look around and take notes. So it’s all the more necessary to have as many people as possible on the human-rights front lines to try to write a different story!