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by josefritzishere 132 days ago
Increasingly this seems like a scam intended to re-route my tax dollars into the private prison corporations that donate to the Trump campaign. What purpose other purpose could this possibly serve?
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Getting Americans used to imprisoning every one they want.
It's also a small step to just detain and deport anyone remotely eligible who criticizes those in power, criticizes those who support those in power, is a family member of one of the prior mentioned parties, or is not in the preferred range of skin tones for those in power. They already deported a few citizens, oops, that's just going to happen when they have deportation quotas to meet, and let that be a warning to the rest of the uppity citizens with the gumption to protest against them.
An extremely charitable take. I commend you.

It’s absolutely a scam intended to route our tax dollars to private prisons. The rest is theater.

I bet the borders are still open to those who are motivated enough to cross.

Trump always brags about "Border Encounters" are 0 suspiciously quickly after he took office. I'm almost certain this is letting people in, while claiming it's secure. Win win.