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Related: About this forumCanadian citizen describes her 'NIGHTMARE' 12 day ICE detention that came without warning
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Canadian citizen describes her 'NIGHTMARE' 12 day ICE detention that came without warning (Original Post)
MagaSmash
Mar 21
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Dave Bowman
(4,916 posts)1. That's so disturbing, nobody's safe from the gestapo.
IronLionZion
(48,391 posts)2. GOP is the fraud, waste, and abuse disguised as "efficiency"
As if these for profit prison schemes are saving taxpayers any money over a person literally offering to buy her own plane ticket to leave our country.
Why would anyone want to come here for any reason?
Or as MAGAts have told me my whole life, why don't you leave?
AkFemDem
(2,474 posts)3. Not just GOP....
She met women who had been detained without charges in these for profit prisons for over 10 months. Democrats have allowed the for-profit prison game to bloom under their watch.
dgauss
(1,296 posts)4. "Companies like Core Civic and GEO Group receive government
funding based on the number of people they detain..."
Well that would explain a lot. The more people they detain and the longer they detain them, the more money they make, whether the people are guilty of anything or not.
Upthevibe
(9,471 posts)5. Kick. N/T