At the Border: Injustice & Inhumanity for Profit
We are paying private entities up to $725 per person, per day, to commit human rights atrocities in the name of American taxpayers…
“A Daily Beast investigation found that in 2018 alone, for-profit immigration detention was a nearly $1 billion industry underwritten by taxpayers and beset by problems that include suicide, minimal oversight, and what immigration advocates say uncomfortably resembles slave labor.
“Being in the U.S. illegally is a misdemeanor offense, and immigration detention is technically a civil matter, not a criminal process.
However, “Expanding the number of immigrants rounded up into jails isn’t just policy; it’s big business….
[T]he private prisons giant GEO Group, expects its earnings to grow to $2.3 billion this year. Like other private prison companies, it made large donations to President Trump’s campaign and inaugural….”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/dollar800-million-in-taxpayer-money-went-to-private-prisons-where-migrants-work-for-pennies
In my view the campaign ‘donations’ are thinly veiled kick-backs paid from profits derived from taxpayer dollars…
Presidential hopeful, Elizabeth Warren, has promised investigations and prosecutions in this entire scheme of inhumanity for political and financial gain…
The first order of immigration reform for an incoming Democratic Administration should be the immediate and expeditious disbanding and dismantling of ICE and the return of the detention and the processing of asylum seekers to the direct control of the federal government…
“What immigrants to this country seek is asylum, not imprisonment” in concentration or slave labor camps.
07/27/2019 @ 9:46 am
“The first order of immigration reform for an incoming Democratic Administration should be the the immediate disbanding and dismantling of ICE…”
^^THAT^^!!!!!!
07/27/2019 @ 1:32 pm
It’s not as if international borders need be open but ICE has shown itself incompetent and corrupt. It needs to be replaced under a new mandate.
08/02/2019 @ 6:54 am
I think you’re making one case and drawing a different conclusion. To my knowledge, ICE isn’t private. Clearly whatever Federal agency we have taking care of the border is screwing up the job royally and needs to be replaced, though renaming the organization may not do the trick and we will need someone in charge of the border. But, as with much else that has gone wrong with government oversight, a lot has been farmed out to the private sector and their motive is not their ostensible mission but profit to their shareholders, a mission which frequently is in conflict with their ostensible mission. Privatizing this function, like privatizing prisons, is disgraceful.