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How Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Could Fuel a Prison Labor Boom

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How Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Could Fuel a Prison Labor Boom

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Politics@beehaw.org · 1 month ago

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Lacking an available pool of migrant labor, the United Stated has historically turned to another vulnerable group—incarcerated people.

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Everything always comes back to slavery in the USA. Always.
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  Ah, but now we can live-stream them doing manual labor and make money off that as well!

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