• kava@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Immigration detention centers have been around for a while now. Virtually all of them ran by private corporations. People rail against private prisons but they make up a tiny tiny minority of prisoners. Over 90% of immigration detention centers are privately owned.

    So we’re going to throw millions of people into camps so that a few corporations can extract a ton of public taxpayer money. They’re also gonna stay there for years because it’s logistically impossible to move over 10 million people quickly.

    I didn’t think fascism would happen again my lifetime. But I guess here we are

    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz
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      5 hours ago

      Moving them is expensive, just letting them die in poor conditions or working them to death is far cheaper… Seeing how it happened yet?