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Any person with an immigrant background should have had their alarm bells going off big time when MAGA used the words "illegal immigrants" as if they were glued together.
Sheesh. But you know what, my parents are the same. Came to their new home country 5 decades ago, now they're complaining about "The Immigration Problem" (one with an air of intellectualism, the other like a true MAGA).
And don't get me started on private prisons and their PR people. We have footage going back years. It's not even a new thing, how bad the conditions are.
Sadly, from what I understand in the US at least, anti-immigrant sentiment is often common among immigrants themselves after some time has passed. To be clear - I'm sure there's a lot of nuance that I'm not privy to, please don't read that as some strict assertion.
But for instance, from what I understand about the Cuban diaspora in Florida, they are often viciously anti-immigrant.
Just us humans being humans unfortunately, we got a lotta work to do on ourselves, collectively.
A for-profit model is perhaps the only thing that could make prisons worse. Maybe not the only one, but it ranks pretty high among the things that could
It already is, it already does.
And yes: prisoners are effectively paying customers. A good business owner wants to retain them for as long as possible, and make sure they come back.