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ICE plans to build more tent jails for immigrants. -For the amount of money they've been allocated, it's surprisingly low tech (www.motherjones.com)

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), now the best-funded federal law enforcement agency in the United States, is embarking on a plan to drastically expand its detention infrastructure. But considering the $45 billion it’s been given for the job, the agency’s vision for its new facilities seems startlingly low-tech.

In July, the Wall Street Journal got its hands on internal government documents revealing that ICE wants to incarcerate more immigrants in tents, or “hardened soft-sided facilities.” The administration hopes to erect thousands of these tents “as quickly as possible to expand detention capacity…at US military bases and adjoining bricks-and-mortar ICE jails,” the Journal reported. Officials say they like this approach, at least for now, because they can quickly set up tons of beds in a few new locations rather than finding space at existing facilities here and there.

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[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

The cruelty is the point

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Classic Russian style corruption. Charge 1 million, spend 1 thousand, pocket the rest.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 7 points 1 day ago

This is the same grift thatn Cuomo was running in NYC for homeless.

Get his associated into homeless non profit, funnel contracts to said non profit, 4k per bed per month. Non code conditions

Then profit!

Now do this 10000x it... We are talking billions here

The grift is simple and they are doing it before your eyes

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They're saving for the gas chambers and the crematoriums in a few years.

[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

*months

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

The grifting and cruelty are the underlying mission. There was a recording of at least one of the ice agents talking about getting a bonus. What are the bonuses for?