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Atticus

(15,124 posts)
Tue Jun 25, 2019, 11:04 PM Jun 2019

Did anyone else hear this yesterday? I'm pretty sure some talking head said we are paying

$775 per child per day for each detained immigrant child. There were about 300 kids at the horribly run Clint facility. Just that one location sucked in nearly a quarter of a million dollars each day.

Gee! I wonder which party gets contributions from the management of that company?

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Did anyone else hear this yesterday? I'm pretty sure some talking head said we are paying (Original Post) Atticus Jun 2019 OP
General Kelly left Trump's cabinet watoos Jun 2019 #1
Hate profiteers. C_U_L8R Jun 2019 #2
You don't have to make humans work to enslave them, you just warehouse them Thomas Hurt Jun 2019 #3
Extremely astute! arthritisR_US Jun 2019 #9
they could stay at a trump hotel for less, dems should requisition all trump hotel rooms nt msongs Jun 2019 #4
I wonder which members of which party have stock in that company. GemDigger Jun 2019 #5
K&R smirkymonkey Jun 2019 #6
Ron Johnson's office told me today that he is working to secure more money to "improve conditions" AllyCat Jun 2019 #7
The fact that they CAN contribute to political campaigns is the real sin. KY_EnviroGuy Jun 2019 #8
 

watoos

(7,142 posts)
1. General Kelly left Trump's cabinet
Tue Jun 25, 2019, 11:07 PM
Jun 2019

and went straight to work for that very private prison corporation. Not exactly draining the swamp is it?

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
3. You don't have to make humans work to enslave them, you just warehouse them
Tue Jun 25, 2019, 11:10 PM
Jun 2019

for 700 a day and keep them in the pens by not spending money on additional judges, lawyers and staff to process their cases.

The goal of the christofascists is not ovens and gas chambers. It is gov't contracts, influence peddling and suffering.

Some very morally twisted people.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
6. K&R
Wed Jun 26, 2019, 12:29 AM
Jun 2019

That money obviously is not going into improving the welfare and health of the children, so where is it going? Hmmm. I think an investigation is in order. It seems as though about $765 per day is being skimmed off the top.

AllyCat

(16,152 posts)
7. Ron Johnson's office told me today that he is working to secure more money to "improve conditions"
Wed Jun 26, 2019, 02:07 AM
Jun 2019

More $ isn’t going to solve this, just line the corporate profits of the private prisons

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,488 posts)
8. The fact that they CAN contribute to political campaigns is the real sin.
Wed Jun 26, 2019, 02:14 AM
Jun 2019

In essence, via those companies, our tax dollars are circulated into a system that re-elects the Rethugs turning a blind eye to these abuses.


KY......... .......

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