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.
These are not ‘detainees’. The word is prisoners.
If they are being forced to do work which pays the contractor those detainees are slaves.
This is the plan. If anyone was wondering how welfare states would keep running when the federal dollars run out. This is how.
Combine that with making homelessness a crime punishable by five years hard labor and you’ve got what the end goal of the GOP is.
A return to chattel slavery? An aim of the resurgent confederacy? What a twist
At this point slave labor can be the center free spot.
Just to put this out there, federal prisons pay most inmates $5 or less a month to do mandatory (or you get punished) jobs.
Genuine question - what’s the punishment? Solitary? Reduced rations? Some other heinous form of turture?
Generally getting sent to the SHU (Special Housing Unit) or being restricted from the Commissary (where they can buy stuff like snacks, soaps, and shoes, among other things). They can’t reduce or restrict rations or stuff like that.
And federal prisons house convicted criminals who are specifically carved out of the “no slavery” rules
Immigration detention centers house people who have not been convicted of a crime. If they can legally work, all labor law should apply. If they can’t, the company shouldn’t be able to cut costs by paying them a pittance instead of hiring an actual employee.
That’s how the contractor has billions - by not giving anyone else any.
'Cause slavery was abolished, unless you are in prison
You think I am bullshittin’, then read the 13th Amendment
Involuntary servitude and slavery it prohibits
Good old slave camps.
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