Drag these for-profit prisons that make money off the suffering of others into the light.
This isn't a Republican or Democrat issue. It exists no matter who is in power, and it is horrifying.
Talk about it. Share the stories. Tell the public why it costs so many of their tax dollars.
These for-profit private detention centers are paid over $1 trillion per year by American government. That's about 5 times the total salaries for the federal workforce. Maybe we could cut some of what we pay these private companies and keep the federal workers that provide us services?
Yep not good for the bureaucracy as folks and families get tired of the bullshit…. Heads will roll … this is America… people in the country and outside… are getting frustrated with their love ones being mistreated… it will take one death or assault..
Reminder that GW Bush created this in the wake of 9/11 and he’s gotten away with everything that has come after. People think he’s just a cuddly chum of Obama’s now.
Los Angeles is supposed to host the Olympics in 2028. We should ask the International Olympic Committee to use LA games as leverage to make USA live up to spirit & values of the Olympic Games right now! Here's the link to contact IOC:
Why are people who overstay their visas or make clerical errors on their asylum applications being treated like violent criminals? How are we okay with this as a country? Why isn’t there more outrage about this?
Because you have a president who lied his way into office pretending the last administration didn't deport "criminals" so now everything is called criminal because the mandate is to have more deportations under Trump than Biden.
There is outrage…but there are SO MANY things about which to be outraged. No one has the ability to be acting on their outrage about all of them. MUCH of it could be eliminated by ousting this administration and its evil minions. But asking for that is just declared a symptom of TDS by republicans.
It is equally tragic that, most likely, the only reason that we have heard her story and she is free is that she is white. Unabashed racism and hate that seems to be the core value of maga & trumpism.
This is so wrong and should not happen at all ! I’m growing more concerned for the USA every day this is not how America should be ! I stand with Canada 🇨🇦 !
The logistics date back to the pre-Trump era. Nobody cared as long as they weren't Canadians, Germans or Brits. The prisons are private - a money-printing machine.
I’m pretty sure I read somewhere several years ago that our incarceration rate increased significantly once we began privatizing prisons. Was there suddenly more crime being committed?
When pundits talk about how Ds need to move even more rightward on immigration, they are saying they want stories like this to happen more often. They are engaging in talking points disconnected from the reality of policy because the average person has no understanding of the immigration system.
There is no push back against the RW Infotainment descriptions of immigrants as criminal monsters, welfare cheats, & polluted of white America's racial purity.
It wasn't just infotainment though; you had Democrat mayors like Eric Adams also scapegoating people saying migrants were going to destroy New York City.
I think it is pretty clear that Eric Adams is/was a Democrat in Name Only (DINO). Also, except for FDR, the New York Democratic Party has been a dumpster fire since Martin Van Buren and the Barnburners.
No one should travel to the US if you can be randomly abducted at the border and thrown in a concentration camp with no access to legal assistance. Maybe if the tourism and business travel sectors dry up, they'll listen.
I run a comic book convention for kids in Ann Arbor, MI, and several Canadian cartoonists have told me they're not going to apply for table space this year because crossing the border feels too fraught.
Many community benefits should not be ruled by capitalism. Like healthcare, schools, jail/prisons, etc. It drives me nuts that we are always looking to turn everything into making money.
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This isn't a Republican or Democrat issue. It exists no matter who is in power, and it is horrifying.
Talk about it. Share the stories. Tell the public why it costs so many of their tax dollars.
Corporations and their wealthy friends will grind our bones to make their bread.
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ICE has moved on from kidnapping to an international slave trade.
#SmashTheICE
Then they came for the Canadians…(oh, sorry. I meant residents of the 51st state)
The system was atrocious under Biden. And Trump simply wants to make it even more evil than it already was.
Or do Democrats not want to admit that?