As of June 15, 71.8% of the 56,397 people in ICE detention had no criminal conviction. It costs taxpayers ~$165/day for a bed in a detention facility. So we're now paying ~$6.7 million/day to keep people who haven't been convicted of a crime locked in prisons. Sources: TRAC Immigration, DHS
And we're paying to have them starved and mistreated.
Profits are rolling in to private prisons!
Post pictures where the fake ICE work, live & shop. Conduct citizen arrests, take their “military garb” ID’s, phones & vehicles-deport them. Hackers access their personal info & delete them from the grid. Donate all money & vehicles collected to help immigrants, the homeless and indigenous peoples!
Check to see how many Congressional members, SCJ, and Executive Branch Employees are invested in these facilities.
Call it what it is, concentration camps.
Private prisons are listed on the stock exchange. This is a growth industry.
I’d like to added in subhuman, abusive prisons without adequate food water, bedding, bathrooms, and medical attention. Most of the per diem is going to the hateful private operator.
And the abuse these people are going through? Unconscionable.
How much do ICE bounty hunters get paid for every immigrant they bring in?
Wate, fraud and abuse (on steroids)
"Waste, fraud, and abuse" anyone?
And as prisoners being denied due process, decent food, medical care, and living arrangements, denied legal and civil rights, denied contact with the outside world, and all this solely based upon their skin color. The ultimate racist fascist government's doing. I stay outraged and ashamed.
Plus the legal costs for justice and compensation for them all. Pure evil at any cost.
It really is. Republicans' enormous proposed budget increase for ICE to terrorize communities (as they're cutting programs that actually help people and giving billionaires tax breaks) says it all.
Not well thought out either. All kinds of businesses will shut down. But rumor has it they want to bring in millions of immigrants from India to fill those empty jobs and build 10 unregulated Freedom Cities (China tried building whole company towns with limited success. Many are sitting empty.)
Trump’s MAGA base includes ICE’s Gestapo, Military deployed against U.S. Citizens, a corrupt SCOTUS, & millions of Neo-Nazis who hate People of Color. Led by lifelong racist Donald Trump, these MAGAts are trying to convert the USA into a Fascist, Christian-Nationalist, White-Supremacist Kleptocracy.
That seems both inefficient and morally reprehensible. RoI: we’re not safer, since they’re not removing criminals. If fact, we’re less safe b/c 1) ICE tactics invite copycat criminals. 2) no due process to imprisonment may make people desperate to avoid being taken. 3) ICE can target ANYONE.
Privatization of the prison industrial complex causes this type of shit 💩
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So these were working people paying taxes and are productive in our society but yet we took that tax revenue out and spend millions if not billions for what - lining the pockets of billionaires with tax breaks and personal pockets of a felon and his gang
One reason DHS has run out of money huh?
Having 5 thugs stand guard while 2 beat a guy who was just trying to mow a lawn doesn't scream efficiency either.
Exactly. Talk about waste and fraud and abuse.
Which is why they have depleted their funds and want more. All going into the pockets of for-profit prisons
Now when people hear ice their like thank god
And who owns the private detention facilities and are getting rich from this illegal kidnapping? Trump-adjacent, no doubt. #RICO
Bingo. The two largest, GEO Group and CoreCivic, exercise influence through huge political donations, fundraising, lobbying, and revolving door hiring practices.
DHS under Kristi Noem is a boil on our country's butt! She needs to go - pronto!! Disgraceful!
GEO group is happy.
$165/day is the cost for a detention bed, but companies like GEO Group and Core Civic that run these facilities also have subsidiaries that provide transportation. When they move people across the country (and away from their families & lawyers), they can charge for beds AND transport.
And my understanding is they are providing cement floors, not beds.
I came here to say that exact same thing.
Guessing that money for beds gets pocketed by some lucky contracting company.
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We are paying 6.7M a day to private corporations that will demand more people in facilities to meet shareholder and CEO quarterly profit goals. Immigration is the excuse. Linng the pockets of the for profit prision complex donors combined with Miller's racism are the reasons. He has stock too.
Him and his friends are makin’ money 😉
F^ck ICE
And $100,000 per DAY for each of about 200 they send to Guantanamo for a week.
Consider also the loss of income and sales taxes and Medicare/ social security taxes they no longer pay. Consider that once we the people allow others to lose basic rights repeatedly, we will lose it for everyone. Trump has no boundaries. He is a destructive, uncontrolled menace to all of us.
It's hard to comprehend the full impact it willl have. And it's not making anyone safer. I posted a thread earlier looking at what ICE officers themselves are saying about the quotas—they're talking about being pulled from investigations into gangs and child exploitation to do this. It's absurd.
The united states is one large prison
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Plus the millions each week to fund the domestic terrorists called ICE!
Whom Most Were Employed & Paying Taxes. This Clown Circus Has Cost Taxpayers More $$$ In 5 Months Than A Full Term Presidency🤬🤮🤬🤮🤬🤮🤬🤮🤬🤮🤬
That's about 2 cents per American citizen per day. We still shouldn't be keeping people who haven't been convicted of a crime locked in prisons, but let's not pretend that the money here is particularly significant.
Sure, but the cost of the detention beds is a fraction of what we're spending to make this all happen; it just happens to be one to which we can easily attach a dollar value. And of course ICE is blowing through its budget and Republicans are proposing a seismic increase in its funding.
Fair enough. I just see a lot of "X dollars spent by the US government" in a way that makes it look like a huge number, when it really isn't when you look at the per-person cost. And that is, frankly speaking, dishonest.
Imagine the upside to Miller’s portfolio containing Palantir
Add to that the few billion being given to farmers because there's no one to do farm work....etc.
Fl announced it will construct, " Alligator Alcatraz", an immigrant interment camp in the Evergaldes. Fema has agreed to contribute $450 million toward the construction on account of national security. Our fed $s are supporting this abomination.
And the detention conditions are horrific. Innocent Immigrants are suffering. This cruelty is revolting.
Don’t forget court costs (significant) and tax dollars lost… it would be much cheaper and better for America to provide them with a path to citizenship. We need them; to work construction, work in fields, work in hospitality, work in elder care…
For $165/day they can all be staying in pretty nice hotel rooms with decent meals. Yet private individuals are pocketing all that money, while providing deplorable conditions. The end game was always theft of the American taxpayer dollars.
Maybe less, since not all of them get their own bed.
Would love to get a hold of one of the GEO or CoreCivic contracts to see how creatively they define the word 'bed'.
And Desantis just got $450 million dollars of FEMA MONEY....FEMA!!!!!!!! To build Alligator Alcatraz. Instead of helping disaster victims 47 is victimizing immigrants.
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So ridiculous.
Internment camps Concentration camps This is insane. It’s cruel. It has to stop.
No proper meals I’m reading. Inhumane conditions all around, unsurprisingly.
How long until they realize it's cheaper to just exterminate them? The Nazis also started with detaining people. History tells us where this is headed.
Stephen Miller has mentioned 'reparations' to the American people. When that guy talks about reparations, it can only mean labor camps. Or worse.
And for those deemed not fit enough to work in labor camps? History tells us exactly where this is headed.
No question. They have already shown a complete disregard for the value and dignity of human beings. That's all we had to see.
It really doesn’t make sense and don’t forget that everyday they are being held is a day they don’t work and contribute tax dollars. R
They aren't prisons, by definition they're concentration camps. "What distinguishes a concentration camp from a prison is that it functions outside of a judicial system. The prisoners are not indicted or convicted of any crime by judicial process." encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...
Being undocumented is a civil offense similar in degree to a parking ticket. It's not a criminal offense. Government agencies may pursue criminal charges against immigrants who enter the country without following the proper protocol but if the entered legally it's supposed to be only a civil offense
I think we can rely on them to charge detainees for the privilege of being tortured.
It was never about immigration. MAGA needs scapegoats.
It's all about the $$$
Haven't you learned anything? Come on! By now, we all know being brown in a white supremacist country sure AF is a crime. That is why they are doing broad sweeps, no warrants, just descriptions: not white, funny names, accents, threatening foods.
Now I'm imagining this as a crusade against the people whose spicy foods threatened these guys' fragile sense of masculinity. Maybe even made them shed a tear.
Exactly! We must push the Cholulu over the border so Miracle Whip and bologna sandwiches can again reclaim their rightful place in the Hall of Murican Vittles 'n Things.