Immigrants for sale.
In 2024, the US Congress provided $3.43 billion to immigration detention centers.
Detention centers and private prisons charge $319 per day, per detained immigrant. This is paid by people with their taxes, ironically, undocumented immigrants contribute to their detention by paying taxes through their Tax ID.
The detention center business is very profitable not only because of the high prices. But also immigrants are forced to work for a dollar a day.
When I heard that immigrants work in detention centers for a dollar a day, I could not understand how it was possible that immigrants, who had been accused and placed in deportation proceedings in jail, deprived of their freedom because they worked without permission in the United States, could work legally. With slave wages.
In detention centers, they are forced to work for a dollar a day. Originally, they were paid two dollars, but human rights groups brought this injustice to light and companies, as a form of punishment, lowered their wages to a dollar a day. Obviously, this is slavery. In the USA, slavery is still legal.
Currently, immigrants in prisons do not receive a salary. Now, what they receive is more food. Ironically, most of them prefer to buy from local dispensaries, which are obviously extremely expensive. But that does not save them from working like slaves. Those who refuse to work are punished in special cells.
GEO and CCA generate a lot of foreign currency by imprisoning immigrants. These corporations maintain a monopoly on prisons.
They are not the only ones who generate foreign currency. There are many other companies that benefit from modern slavery. For example, the owners of the phones that immigrants use to communicate with their lawyers, to talk to their family. These companies charge more than $1 a minute, plus the cost of making them and for the use of an account. Immigrants buy prepaid cards that usually cost $50. Unfortunately, the new tactics of the detention centers is to move immigrants from one jail to another, so that these companies do not reimburse the money that immigrants invested in communicating with their lawyers or their family.
Companies that sell food are also over priced, for food that is of poor quality and is also prepared for free by the immigrants themselves.
Many congressmen and senators invest directly in the detention centers.* Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Georgia) owns two gun stores in his home state. According to the complaint from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), Clyde violated ethics rules multiple times by proposing bills and pursuing other policy changes that would likely increase his profits. This representative from Georgia finds it convenient that immigrants are incarcerated because his business depends on it, so he proposes laws to have more clients and to keep them in jail for longer.
Legislators in the United States and representatives in the United States are investing in private detention center companies.
These corporations GEO and CCA maintain the monopoly and control of private prisons, when Donald Trump won the presidency their value grew by up to 40% in the financial market.
Currently the State of Mississippi is promoting the law HB1484 in which it will give permits to bounty hunters to search and find undocumented immigrants.
Despite the problem that racial profiling has caused in the Hispanic community at a national level, especially at the borders, where Hispanic citizens, especially people of dark skin, are detained by the authorities questioned about their immigration status, something that does not happen to white citizens, especially those who proclaim themselves to be true Americans.
Ironically, Native Americans are considered “collateral damage”
“At least 15 Indigenous people in Arizona and New Mexico have reported being stopped at their homes and workplaces, questioned or detained by federal law enforcement and asked to produce proof of citizenship during immigration raids” CNN.
Laws like the one in Mississippi seek to more effectively monetize the imprisonment of undocumented immigrants. In this same state, it is being proposed that undocumented immigrants not only be married and caged like animals, but that they be in jail for life.
Cities that are complaining about the cost of maintaining undocumented immigrants want those immigrants to remain in their jails forever. Evidently slavery is profitable for the USA/MAGA
Mississippi seeks not only to imprison immigrants for life and claim taxes for having those immigrants in prisons. It also seeks to generate foreign currency for the private companies that provide food, uniforms for guards, toothpaste, telephones and everything else needed to make those prisons work. But the historical component is slavery.
The United States maintains legal slavery. In the most powerful country in the world, in the country that claims to be Christian. Mainly the states that call themselves “the Bible Belt,” slavery is perpetuated.
This worked during the Jim Crow era, during the era of racial segregation.
They sold us the idea that slavery had ended, however slavery is still legal. The New Juan Crow.
Immigrants are for sale, they generate foreign currency inside and outside of prisons, they pay taxes outside of prisons, that money is used to pay for their imprisonment, and it only benefits precisely those who are making the laws.
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