No, I mean people with active green cards. As a side note, green cards cannot expire; the technical term for having one is having lawful permanent residence (LPR), with emphasis on the permanent. While the physical cards themselves have expiration dates, if the card expires you are still 100% in the same status. The…

Very important also to note that MANY of the people detained in immigration detention centers like this are people with green cards, NOT undocumented individuals.

Seeker Daily just put out an interesting video on this subject of prison labor. Worth a look.

I think the owners see them as $$$.

And a very large portion of that portion probably call themselves “Christians”.

Voluntary Work Program

The irony being that some of them may have been ‘busted’ in their paltry paid jobs only to become indentured labor in this prison system. You’re prohibited from working — except for us.

Unfortunately we have a not insignificant portion of the population that thinks this treatment is a-ok because these people are undocumented.

Important distinction: none of the people forced to work have been convicted of a crime.

Fantastic news. These private prisons make bank off of forcing people to “voluntarily” work for them. Really excited to see that this suit has gone forward.

Just a reminder that people who are being held in immigration detention centers are not being punished for crimes, but these centers are nonetheless run very much like prisons. I think the operators may not always understand the Constitutional significance of the fact that these people are not criminal prisoners.

Yet another magnificent reason to impeach the circus peanutcase as soon as possible. These assholes and their employers and their shareholders don’t deserve a single penny of profit off slave labor like this.

I’m increasingly certain almost everyone who has seen that sketch has to be constantly thinking of it in relation to US and UK politics right now... it’s hard not to.

“Do They Hear Me When I Cry” needs to start being required reading in high school. It hits all of the bases: racism, classism, anti-Islam sentiment, anti-immigrant hate, gender violence, sexism, imprisoning people for bullshit reasons, treating prisoners like garbage...

The issue is that once people accept this increased activity by ICE as the new normal - people won’t question most street grabs, whether they are for deportation or not. It would all be lumped in with “ICE grabbing illegals” and the people that might raise a fuss will be silenced by the fear that they’d be next - even…

Cue the Mitchell and Webb “Are We the Baddies?” sketch.

No see...these children are already born so...they have to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

Tell us again how daddy is so compassionate again? I hate her with the fire of a thousand suns. I hope her and her entire carpet bagger family end up in orange jumpsuits.

Seriously...fuck that guy.

If this is going to stop its going to have to stop soon. We’re quickly sliding towards camps. I’m sure at first it will only be “a temporary solution”.   Once we get to camps, the next step is using those people for labor. Once we get to forced labor, we get to disposing of the bodies because nobody wants to feed…