Immigrants For Sale

[sasha031]

Run time: 02:20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuGE1VxVsYo   Posted on YouTube: May 12, 2011 By YouTube Member: bravenewfoundation Views on YouTube: 303   Posted on DU: May 12, 2011 By DU Member: sasha031 Views on DU: 750

 
TOP 3 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW
ABOUT PRIVATE PRISONS
1) The victims: Private prisons don't care about who they lock up. At a rate of $200 per immigrant a night at their prisons, this is a money making scheme that destroys families and lives.

2) The players: CCA (Corrections Corporation of America), The Geo Group and Management and Training corporations - combined these private prisons currently profit more than $5 billion a year.

3) The money: These private prisons have spent over $20 million lobbying state legislators to make sure they get state anti-immigration laws approved and ensure access to more immigrant inmates.

[dotymed]

1. Slavery, yet worse.

At least most Slaves (they led a miserable existence, thank God so many were so resilient) were able to go outside and lead (very repressed) lives in their "community."

In Prison$, they can not go anywhere, The violence is unfathomable and they are treated worse than animals, in most cases. But hey, "free" enterprise, right?
"They are there for punishment not rehabilitation"....insanity.


Amerika.....how has this happened to us?......A= greed, apathy, propaganda, ignorance.....

[closeupready]

4. The country institutionalized slavery, as we all know. This is a legacy of that mindset

in my opinion. knr

[Derechos]

2. A little more background info from NPR article published last year

Behind-The-Scenes Effort To Draft, Pass The Law

The law is being challenged in the courts. But if it’s upheld, it requires police to lock up anyone they stop who cannot show proof they entered the country legally.

When it was passed in April, it ignited a fire storm. Protesters chanted about racial profiling. Businesses threatened to boycott the state.

Supporters were equally passionate, calling it a bold positive step to curb illegal immigration.

But while the debate raged, few people were aware of how the law came about.

NPR spent the past several months analyzing hundreds of pages of campaign finance reports, lobbying documents and corporate records. What they show is a quiet, behind-the-scenes effort to help draft and pass Arizona Senate Bill 1070 by an industry that stands to benefit from it: the private prison industry.

The law could send hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants to prison in a way never done before. And it could mean hundreds of millions of dollars in profits to private prison companies responsible for housing them.

“There were no ‘no’ votes,” Pearce said. “I never had one person speak up in objection to this model legislation.”

Four months later, that model legislation became, almost word for word, Arizona’s immigration law.

They even named it. They called it the “Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act.”

“ALEC is the conservative, free-market orientated, limited-government group,” said Michael Hough, who was staff director of the meeting.

Hough works for ALEC, but he’s also running for state delegate in Maryland, and if elected says he plans to support a similar bill to Arizona’s law.

Asked if the private companies usually get to write model bills for the legislators, Hough said, “Yeah, that’s the way it’s set up. It’s a public-private partnership. We believe both sides, businesses and lawmakers should be at the same table, together.”

Nothing about this is illegal. Pearce’s immigration plan became a prospective bill and Pearce took it home to Arizona.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130833741

[WillyT]

3. Kick !!!

Wish I could still Rec!!!

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