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Tuesday, August 16, 2011
News 'Immigrants for Sale'
Posted By Rhiannon Fionn on Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 3:14 PM
If you want to discuss the immigration reform issues in this country, you might want to consider the whole story. Undocumented immigrants have become a commodity, and taxpayers are flipping the bill to house many of them in often distant for-profit prisons where they're further cut off from family, counselors and health care, and where staffs are all too frequently short and under-trained. And why? So corporations can turn a profit ... to the tune of billions of dollars per year? WTF?!
This is a human rights and civil rights issue, and if you don't think so you're shortchanging the issue.
It's also a where-in-the-hell-is-our-tax-money-going issue. We pay three times as much to house any inmate in for-profit prisons.
And just because Mecklenburg County rejected an opportunity to build a for-profit prison here doesn't mean we're not involved in this game; we ship our immigrants to a facility just outside of Atlanta.
Check out this video, "Immigrants for Sale," for more information:
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