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Trump’s Mass Deportation Plans Send Private Prison Stocks Soaring (truthout.org)

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“We’ve just seen private prison companies take over even more and more of immigration detention,” says Silky Shah.

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[–] USSMojave@startrek.website 18 points 3 days ago (3 children)

This is why I'm sure they won't stop with just the immigrants. When people are making money on running a machine they won't want it to stop running

[–] Clasm@ttrpg.network 2 points 3 days ago

Of course not, they can already lock up terrorists forever, and they've got plans to label anyone who thinks of stepping out of line as Antifa(read: protesting, specifically, but it won't stop there), which they'll label as a "Terrorist Organization".

[–] bradinutah@thelemmy.club 3 points 3 days ago

"Where are your papers?!"

[–] Joeffect@lemmy.world -2 points 3 days ago

Where have you been all this time what do you think happens already? And why we have so many for profit jails?