
There are more than 48,000 people being held in immigrant detention in more than 200 facilities in the United States. More than two-thirds of them, according to the National Immigrant Justice Center, are confined by private companies, working on contracts with the federal government. Those numbers have ballooned in the last two years under the Trump administration, drawing new attention to the terrible conditions detainees are living in.This is sick.
One feature of privately run centers — the Voluntary Work Program — is the subject of six separate lawsuits, which say that privately run immigrant detention centers are coercing detainees into working for a dollar a day and punishing those who don’t...
[I]mmigrant detention is civil confinement, not criminal. People held in these facilities are not charged with any crime; they are being detained while awaiting asylum or deportation hearings. Under Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Voluntary Work Program, however, immigrant detention centers need not pay workers more than one dollar a day, a rate set by Congress in 1950 and codified in the 1978 Appropriations Act. It has never been increased or adjusted for inflation.
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But, but, Mr. smarty pants libertarian Wenzel, these are PRIVATE companies, so what's yer beef??? /s
ReplyDeleteI genuinely guffawed at that Mike ... nice sarcasm
DeleteMy dream is to meet people involved in this stuff in some sort of social setting where they are trying to present themselves as astute businessmen rather than crony losers on the dole, and just clown them to their faces in front of their families. What a bunch of losers! Why dont they get real jobs? Aren't they embarrassed?
ReplyDeleteI guess they can put them up in Hilton hotels. But all kidding aside, this is probably actually a very humane thing. Right now thousands of migrants are dragging their children through the gang infested deserts of northern Mexico because they think they are going to get lots of free stuff once they reach the US. Once they hear that the best they can hope for are months in stifling migrant camps, they may stop putting their children in harm's way and stay put.
ReplyDeleteThe humane thing to do would be to stop infesting the deserts of Northern Mexico, not to mention their home countries further south, with gangs. The War On Drugs is the root of all this madness.
DeleteMore victims of inflation and price controls. I recall that in the 50s domestic servants earned $5 per day plus several meals and food. The bus fare was 10 cents. There were plenty of takers.
ReplyDeleteWe know they are not citizens, so deport their asses ASAP! USA treats these illegals far better than they would be in their own country. Plus they bring incurable TB and other turd world diseases, but hey, at least you have 'muh principles' of libertardianism.
ReplyDeleteWe need more Schindlers out there who will put their company at risk in order to undermine the government's immoral policies while assisting the helpless.
ReplyDeleteWhen I hear or read people talking about what horrible parents the immigrants are for “dragging” their kids through the desert and putting their lives in danger, I wonder if the same could be said for the English immigrants who drug their children across the Atlantic, putting them in harms way,(and we know that several kids died on those trips) or when the settlers would drag their kids across the desert and mountains going west putting their kids in danger of gangs of Indians looking to kill, scalp and enslave their kids if they could get them as the slogged along in a wagon.
ReplyDeleteThere s a big difference. The early English settlers weren't doing it for the free gibs at the end of the trip. There weren't any.
DeleteWhat does that have to do with putting their kids in danger? Seriously?
DeleteIt depends on why their leaving, and where they are going. If they are leaving safe impoverishment for dangerous potential enrichment, then the parents are doing their job very poorly (I include those from your examples, Joshua). I don't think any riches are worth the endangerment of a child.
DeleteI'm amazed at all the mind-readers that comment on this topic (and who then go to propose coercive policies assuming that their mind-reading is infallible). Who can know specifically why each parent brings their children on a dangerous journey? Praxeology suggests that these parents believe that this option is better than staying put. Whether that is because they hope to receive welfare, or because they hope to find a more peaceful and safer society where they can make a living and raise their family, it doesn't justify using force to prevent their movement across "public property."
DeleteInteresting that in all the blame going around (and in all the wrong directions) no one blames the Soros funded organizations that are funding these caravans. These parents are being enticed with money and false promises to go on these dangerous journeys.
DeleteI blame the deserts for being dry and covered in cactus. This is truly a result of global warming, so we are in desperate need of a green new deal to end this suffering. /s
DeleteTake that, Mike.