Homeland Security told immigrants that leaving the US would wipe out fines it claims they owe. Now it wants private investigators to find them in their home countries and collect.
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While cruelty is a point, it is not the only point.
This story is a great example of fascism in action. The marriage of an authoritarian government and the profit incentive of private companies.
This is what happens when a capitalist regime dehumanizes people, and treats them as commodities to make profit.
This is the modern day slave trade. Keeping people in for-profit concentration camps for as long as they can and then charging them for the torture they endured.
While cruelty is a point, it is not the only point.
This story is a great example of fascism in action. The marriage of an authoritarian government and the profit incentive of private companies.
This is what happens when a capitalist regime dehumanizes people, and treats them as commodities to make profit.
This is the modern day slave trade. Keeping people in for-profit concentration camps for as long as they can and then charging them for the torture they endured.