An ICE Contractor Is Worth Billions. It’s Still Fighting to Pay Detainees as Little as $1 a Day to Work.
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GEO Group, whose stock is valued at $4 billion, says that state minimum wage laws don’t apply to the cleaning services that it’s asked detained migrants to perform at facilities where they’re kept.
  • RowRowRowYourBotEnglish
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    1 day ago

    If you are being detained and forced to work you are a slave.

      • jackeryjoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        1 day ago

        It’s constitutional. Read the 13th amendment. Abolished slavery, except if you’re incarcerated.

      • RowRowRowYourBotEnglish
        9·
        1 day ago

        Yes, it is. There are prisons that “loan” “workers” to companies.

      • wirebeads@lemmy.caEnglish
        7·
        1 day ago

        America has always been a racist, fascist dictatorship state. It’s just allowed to finally show its true colours.

        It’s an unsafe place to be. As a Canadian I will no longer ever set foot in the country as I don’t feel safe for myself or family.

        Other countries are warning about avoiding travel to the US. I wholeheartedly agree with that sentiment.

        I said months ago there won’t be an America by the time Trumps done. I still stand by that statement.

        America is fucked short term and will be destroyed long term, most likely from eating itself.

        #project2025