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She was abducted and tortured by the US government. That's the plain, simple, horrific truth.
ICE is our very own Gestapo.
never change leemy.
24 hour light is considered torture. Imprisoning someone without telling them why, how long, or what should happen next is also considered torture. They are literal torture techniques practiced in countries without human rights.
Then there's the stories of people needing medical attention after border patrol "interrogated" them.
This. Is. Not. Normal.
Exactly. Our detention facilities are literally designed for torture. People will say they are simply built cheaply or carelessly, but I don’t buy it. These places are specifically designed to maximize psychological suffering. And there is absolutely no reason why they need to be that way.
Hey, the contractor said this was how they save money. Who cares if it's also torture amiright?
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Okay, so at what point are we allowed call a Nazi a Nazi, huh? Is it when they Seig Heil? Because according to conservative media, no. What about when they idolize Nazis? What about when they start doing Nazi shit, dismantling due process, indefinitely detaining and disappearing people who were just trying to follow the rules like this woman? Mind you, I'm not asking for your input, Nazis never argue in good faith, I'm just calling you out on your bullshit.
What an f'ing disgrace. She went to an American government office to apply legally for a visa. The absolute worst consequence should have been "we're sorry, we can't process your Visa and you'll need to return to your home country."
That's it.
This is a minor point compared to her suffering, but also, what an f'ing waste of taxpayer money. Some private facilities got good money I'm sure to lock this innocent lady up.
We were reminded by the last two months or so that it's only a waste of taxpayer money if it doesn't go directly to the pocket of some rich dude.
Sure wouldn't be a shame if something happens to Damon Hininger, current CEO of Core Civic.
"I've worked at CoreCivic for 32 years, and this is truly one of the most exciting periods of my career," CEO Damon Hininger said on the company's earnings call.
Throw these parasites in their own prisons.
It felt like you were kidnapped because you WERE
This is the very significant part:
The reality became clear: Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit.
Companies like CoreCivic and GEO Group receive government funding based on the number of people they detain, which is why they lobby for stricter immigration policies. It’s a lucrative business: CoreCivic made over $560m from Ice contracts in a single year. In 2024, GEO Group made more than $763m from Ice contracts.
At this point Canada should be playing hard ball. Ban all visas from anyone working for those companies, or anyone who delivers services to those companies for as long as they work for those companies. If they lie about who they work for, the ban is permanent and they personally are not allowed to set foot in Canada ever.
Why would those employees ever go to Canada to work or study (to need visas). There's nothing to swing at.
People already bitch about not being able to go to Canada because they got a DUI. This is will absolutely cause someone's vacation plans to be fucked up. But more importantly this should be a policy of the EU and Mexico too.
Wow, what a story. The kind of thing you'd expect from a 3rd world shithole country which I guess the USA is becoming.
1st/2nd/3rd world terminology becoming increasingly outdated as America becomes aligned with Russia and Europe and Canada distance themselves.
Nazi USA is a shithole.
Has been for quite a while, it's just that Americans have been told they're number 1 for so long and most of them don't travel so they don't see anything else.
I highly recommend foreign travel. For example Colombia seems to be completely developed in some places and stuck in the 1950's in other places.
I haven't done any international travel for the last few years, but I used to do it a decent amount for work, and lemme tell you: the worst part of those trips wasn't the long / cramped plane flights; it was going through US customs.
I'm a US citizen, but every time I went through those lines, it felt like I was passing through a military checkpoint into occupied territory. Every time I went through that experience, it made me hate what our country has become just that little bit more.
Traveled to Rome recently (as US citizen). Walked no more than 10 minutes from the gate, was 5th in line to one of a half dozen or so automated camera/scanner customs gates, and cleared customs within 15 minutes of landing.
Returned to the US, walked for 20 minutes through a maze of twisty passages to get to the customs hall, where I stood in line for another 30 minutes to get to one of a half dozen or so checkpoints where an agent scanned my passport, told me to stare at the camera, and eventually, maybe even grudgingly, welcomed me home.
The last time I came through American customs, it was when I was returning from a conference in Spain, and a colleague of mine got detained for 3 hours because he "looked suspicious". Man's a fucking engineer, with credentials out the wazoo, but apparently he fidgeted in line or something. Sitting there in the little space available just anxiously waiting for them to release him was harrowing, but I can't even imagine what he went through. Nobody would tell me shit; in fact, the more I asked about him, the more it felt like they were treating me like a suspect. If they'd ended up deciding that he didn't pass the sniff test, they could have taken him anywhere, and nobody would know a fucking thing about it for God knows how long.
Man, I'm getting sweaty just reliving that. Fuck I hate this country sometimes.
There is a place for Capitalism. Prisons, Hospitals, Insurance, police and mental health facilities, to name a few, are not the place.
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