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The Biden/Harris administration has been helping lay the groundwork for Trump’s promised mass deportations, after already expelling more immigrants than any single US administration in history.

US immigration
Revealed: Biden lays groundwork to expand immigration jails as Trump readies for office
In the past year, the Biden administration has extended contracts for private sector jails before Trump's plan for mass deportations
José Olivares in New York

Donald Trump's plan for the mass deportation of undocumented people and a related expansion of US detention facilities is getting an unexpected head start from Joe Biden - and private prison companies are already cashing in.
The Biden administration has, for the past year, been in the process of extending contracts for private sector immigration jails across the US and exploring options for expanding detention capacity, a Guardian investigation has found.
This is despite both the US president's previous statements opposing such private jails and the fact that many facilities have a reputation for inhumane conditions.

"The Biden administration has increased the number of people in detention, doubled down on anti-immigrant, Trump-era deterrence policies, and expanded detention capacity in direct conflict with its own promises to end for-profit incarceration and bring fairness to the immigration system, said Silky Shah, executive director of Detention Watch Network, a national advocacy working with detained immigrants.
Instead of reassuring and pre-emptively protecting many terrified families and workers among the 11 million undocumented people in the US, the Biden administration has been working on contracts for more detention beds. These plans may not all get finalized, but private prison companies are enthusiastic about expansion opportunities now, as well as next year.
"Let us be clear: Trump's return to the White House, and his unprecedented mass deportation and immigration detention agenda will be catastrophic for all Americans," Shah said. Families face being split up and communities turned upside down, she said.
That's apart from huge cost and economic production implications.

December 5, 2024 at 2:02 PM

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“What we’re called to ask is why the murder of one man must be described as unspeakable violence, but the systemic denial of life to 100,000 people is an acceptable business practice.”

Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · Dec 5

“Where life is precious, life is precious.” - Ruth Wilson Gilmore

And where it’s not, it’s not. The for-profit health care industry profits off denying care. Across the industry 1 in 7 claims are denied.

Our job isn’t to debate a murder, it’s to create a system where life is precious.

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