Force-Fed by ICE
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Force-Fed by ICE
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#2Horrific details inside the article, be warned
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#3I think every American should also read the ACLU's report (Resistance, Retaliation, Repression: Two Years in California Immigration Detention).
https://www.aclunorcal.org/publications/resistance-retaliati...
Some of the issues it highlighted:
- forced labor in order to afford to eat. The $1/day "Voluntary Work Program" is the only way to get enough food to live. And if you refuse to work or try to protest, ICE doesn't have to give an excuse to send you into solitary confinement. CoreCivic sells this labor to companies
- extensive use of solitary confinement often for "minor disciplinary infractions or as a form of retaliation for participating in hunger strikes or for submitting complaints"
- dozens of documented deaths from forced labor and medical neglect
All of these conditions have only gotten much worse.
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#4I think every American should also read the ACLU's report ( Resistance, Retaliation, Repression: Two Years in California Immigration Detention ). https://www.aclunorcal.org/publications/resistance-retaliati... Some of the issues it highlighted: - forced labor in order to afford to eat. The $1/day "Voluntary Work Program" is the only way to get enough food to live. And if you refuse to work or try to protest, ICE does…
There was no actual punishment to the slave owners and they've ingrained their grievances about having to work into every generation since. If there's no punishment coming it will just continue the cycle of racists wanting to be lazy but reap all the rewards because of their skin color.
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#5I think every American should also read the ACLU's report ( Resistance, Retaliation, Repression: Two Years in California Immigration Detention ). https://www.aclunorcal.org/publications/resistance-retaliati... Some of the issues it highlighted: - forced labor in order to afford to eat. The $1/day "Voluntary Work Program" is the only way to get enough food to live. And if you refuse to work or try to protest, ICE does…
There was no actual punishment to the slave owners and they've ingrained their grievances about having to work into every generation since. If there's no punishment coming it will just continue the cycle of racists wanting to be lazy but reap all the rewards because of their skin color.
Same thing in Germany.
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#6Wow, this is horrific treatment. I hope to see the day the perpetrators will punished.
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#7I'm actually confused as to what the policy should be.
Should ICE or whomever else just like the people on hunger strikes die? Or should they continue force-feeding the people on hunger strikes? Neither seem like a good solution but I don't know what the alternatives are, besides giving in to the hunger strikers, which is most likely never going to happen otherwise everyone would hunger strike to get whatever they want.
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#8You don't get to choose when you ultimately go in a free country. You must stay alive and work so the rest of us can be free of the guilt that we let you down.
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#9I'm actually confused as to what the policy should be. Should ICE or whomever else just like the people on hunger strikes die? Or should they continue force-feeding the people on hunger strikes? Neither seem like a good solution but I don't know what the alternatives are, besides giving in to the hunger strikers, which is most likely never going to happen otherwise everyone would hunger strike to get whatever they wa…
Maybe take a few steps farther back
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#10Wow, this is horrific treatment. I hope to see the day the perpetrators will punished.
> I hope to see the day the perpetrators will punished.
This is unfortunately incredibly unlikely, at least when it comes to the people who are really responsible.
Some of the foot soldiers working in these prisons might get some punishment assuming we in the US still live in a functioning democracy (IMO until after the midterms happen, this is actually an open question) and if power is able to shift away from the current administration, but the people really responsible for this are above federal law, which is a thing we allow in the US.
They will all be mass pardoned by Trump before he leaves office.