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Rhiannon12866

(235,273 posts) Sat May 31, 2025, 09:03 PM Saturday

'Billion dollar border industrial complex' blossoms under Trump's deportation program - Velshi - MSNBC

Private incarceration companies are playing a huge role in Trump’s deportation plans. The biggest detention centers in the country are run by private companies – many of which have tried to curry favor with the Trump Administration by donating to Republican campaigns or Trump’s inaugural committee.

NYU Law Professor Rachel Barkow says the dynamics mimic the larger prison industrial complex. Co-creator, Migration and Technology Monitor Petra Molnar says some tracking apps developed by these companies can be efficient, “But right now, what technology is doing is actually replicating racism, discrimination, carceral logic.” - Aired on 05/31/2025.

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'Billion dollar border industrial complex' blossoms under Trump's deportation program - Velshi - MSNBC (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Saturday OP

America's gulags will be the biggest federal employer. Irish_Dem Saturday #1

When we run out of the "others" to put in jail, where, o where, will they find new bodies? erronis Saturday #2

A couple of very good contributors - point out the profitability and data sharing erronis Saturday #3

Irish_Dem

(70,241 posts)

1. America's gulags will be the biggest federal employer.

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Sat May 31, 2025, 09:12 PM

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erronis

(19,947 posts)

2. When we run out of the "others" to put in jail, where, o where, will they find new bodies?

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Sat May 31, 2025, 09:37 PM

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Maybe being old can be a crime.

Or infirm or homeless.

Perhaps being a liberal or speaking about First Amendment privileges.

How about women that won't have children that the state wants?

And forget about not tithing to your local mega-church (xian, only - of course.)

erronis

(19,947 posts)

3. A couple of very good contributors - point out the profitability and data sharing

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Sat May 31, 2025, 09:41 PM

Saturday

It appears that judges are actually being paid by one of the large corrections corporations to render guilty pleas in order to profit from the incarceration.

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