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Obscure disaster-response firms have been angling to profit from the president’s mass deportation plans since before his reelection.

Sounds like a lot of people quit rather than do this:

Disaster relief tends to attract a certain kind of person. Detention work attracts another. Bloomberg Businessweek spoke with multiple people who left disaster-relief companies when they saw the turn they were taking. They asked not to be identified because they signed nondisclosure agreements or fear retaliation. “The idea that we were going to pack these people in cages,” says one. “I couldn’t do it.” Another says they “didn’t want to be designing the systems for internment camps.”

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

The labor is incidental to the getting paid.

Look at Alligator Alcatraz. They've got marsh water leaking into the buildings. The food is all rotten. People are getting sick by the score. There's barely working sanitation. Folks in there are dehydrated and malnourished, suffering physical and sexual abuse, with no legal reason for their imprisonment or recourse for their release.

Where did that $600M construction contract go? Where is the maintenance budget going? It's all getting looted, while ICE officials pack more migrants into their concentration camp like sardines.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

What else do you expect from a concentration camp?

I'm uninformed about this, do you have any sources handy?

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’m kinda assuming they’re using Schindler’s List as a rough guideline of how they should run their facilities.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 week ago

I see no evidence that they're trying to subvert the concentration camp system that's being built, though its not impossible

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Slaves. They want slaves.

[–] bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Sounds like a great cover for a catch and release shelter.

ICE brings people to be locked up. A handful of immigrants play pretend prisoners. ICE officers have to sign people in and out but there are huge delays and secretly the people sent there are just quietly let go after ICE leaves

[–] RotatingParts@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

They go where the money is and there is a bunch of money in detaining/imprisoning people.

[–] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I had detention in middle school, am I qualified

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

It's ICE, do you have a pulse? You're qualified.

Oh, actually, you do have to pass a physical examination

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[–] blargle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

IDK what's wrong with me but Tyson and Perdue were the first companies to pop into my mind reading the headline