- cross-posted to:
- usa@midwest.social
- cross-posted to:
- usa@midwest.social
Late Wednesday afternoon, private prison company CoreCivic announced it would be reopening a notorious family detention center in South Texas, under an amended contract with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The facility, first built in 2014, will house up to 2,400 people, including children. It had been shut down last year to save costs, after years of reports suggesting poor treatment, including a report of one toddler who died due to a lack of medical care.
The reopening is part of a trend. CoreCivic isn’t the only company bringing back facilities. We are at the beginning of what looks like a private prison boom, as the groups profit off President Donald Trump’s plans for mass deportation. They are set to make billions. As the Washington Post reported, the GEO Group and CoreCivic stand to benefit in particular from Trump’s immigration plans—the companies hold at least 16 vacant facilities that can be reopened within months for mass detention and deportation.
Corruption All The Way Down
And here we are at one of the major reasons they’re going against immigrants. The other is racism because our population numbers have been negative for awhile now. The non-whites have more babies.
In 2022, the largest racial or ethnic group in the US was the white (non-Hispanic) group, which had a population of 196.2 million. Between 2010 and 2022, the Hispanic/Latino population had the most growth increasing by 12.9 million from 50.7 million in 2010 to 63.7 million in 2022.
https://usafacts.org/data/topics/people-society/population-and-demographics/our-changing-population/