So, ICE is getting $75 billion in funding in this spending bill.
There's a directive to build a ton of new private prisons which are effectively concentration camps. Actually let's remove the "effectively". They ARE concentration camps, under nearly any definition of that term.
So why do people keep getting swept up for nearly no reason whatsoever? It's about quotas. 🧵
When you have a system like this, what we are looking at is a well funded set of slots and quotas, a promise of numbers.
And you know what happens with this. You know what it's like for you or someone else to get pulled over for a bullshit speeding ticket at the end of the month. The cop has been given a quota to fill. They'll be in trouble if they don't fill it. They *have to find* people who are in trouble, or *they'll* be in trouble. 🧵
@cwebber
It is also a self referential con.
"We need money to do our deeds!”
“Here, have some ill gotten gains to do deeds that are not needed.”
“Look how well we are doing with the money spent”
It is a fake business, smells like money laundering so no one can get the money back.
Christine Lemmer-Webber
Null Hypothesis