The Immigration Detention Gold Mine

// May 12th, 2008 // Human Rights, Immigration, Videos

PBS has now done a series on “Immigrant Detainees- A New Profit Center?” giving us a look into how the private corrections industry is profiting from immigrants held in detention facilities.

“Sometimes they get food…sometimes they don’t… It’s freezing in the winter time … and we have a lot of detainees that get sick.”

The Washington Post just came out with a closer look at the system of neglect that characterizes immigrant detention. You can access that here.

It costs an average of $100 per day of our tax dollars to house these immigrants—without proper food and medical facilities most of the time—behind bars, sometimes for long periods.

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5 Responses to “The Immigration Detention Gold Mine”

  1. Elin48 says:
    March 17, 2010 at 1:23 am

    Disgusting!
    ..how about this poem by Martin Niemoeller
    Niemoeller was a pacifist who spoke out against nuclear weapons. He is best known for his powerful statement about the failure of Germans to speak out against the Nazis:

    “First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was neither, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.”

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  2. DREAMActivist says:
    March 17, 2010 at 1:23 am

    Yes Elin, very fitting indeed. I think I have quoted that in one of my earlier posts about immigrant detention. Thanks for stopping by.

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  3. Elin48 says:
    March 17, 2010 at 1:23 am

    Even though it says YouTube in the lower right hand corner…why can’t I find it on YouTube, so that I can send it on to my friends, and to an even wider audience? Do you know of another way I can send this video of yours on to my personal e-mail address list?

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  4. DREAMActivist says:
    March 17, 2010 at 1:23 am

    Here is the link – http://www.youtube.com

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  5. No Borders and Binaries » Blog Archive » ICE Detaining Ukrainian Woman Willing and Paying to Leave the United States says:
    December 30, 2008 at 12:21 pm

    [...] and U.S. citizens, the use of sedatives and drugs to curtail deportees, Homeland Gitmo and the immigrant detention goldmine … the list is seemingly [...]

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