Detaining immigrants is big business

[xeni]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/12/31/detaining-immigrants-is-big-bu.html

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[euansmith]

Detaining immigrants is big business

Well, that’s a shock. It is almost as though Corporate America is morally bankrupt.

[Orb]

Making money off of the misery of others is the preferred way to make money. Otherwise how would you know who was beneath you?

/s

[anon24181555]

Human trafficking

[RickMycroft]

@xeni

Like other private prison companies, it made large donations to President Trump’s campaign and inaugural.

See, this is why I take claims that Trump is mainly funded by small individual donations as a dubious claim that needs double-checked.

@doctorow

Trump has been even more prolific with grassroots donations as he gears up for his re-election campaign. Of the nearly $86 million Trump has raised in individual contributions to his campaign and joint fundraising account with the Republican Party since he took office, $62 million, or 72 percent, has come from small-dollar donations.

[MessyJartin]

How long till the administration spins this as job creation?

[Boundegar]

Wait, this just dawned on me. We pay big money to imprison people, and then the prisons rent out the prisoners and profit again? Betsy DeVos must be green with envy!

[euansmith]

And even better, from the “emproyer’s” point of view, they don’t have to worry about pensions or anything; as they can just deport their workforce when they get too old to work.

[GiantRobotPilot]

Along these lines, I think the real reason trump is demanding the border wall is because he’s made promises to certain construction-related “legitimate businesses” who stand to get a piece of the funding. Recall that at first he wasn’t going to force a shutdown over the wall, then he changed his mind. I think somebody reminded him of the deals he’s made.

[RickMycroft]

The story was that the feedback from his base via Fox News wasn’t happy without the wall.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

[FGD135]

[j9c]

[Melted_Crayons]

@euansmith

It is almost as though Corporate America is morally bankrupt.

With the rights of a human, but only financially accountable. If ever.

[anotherone]

I had no idea they were being used a labor. That’s it. The U.S. is slave state which abducts foreigners to become slave labor. How else could one see this?

The 13th says they have to have been duly convicted. Why aren’t minimum wage laws in effect here? As I understand it, no one in these centers has been duly convicted of a crime.