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There Are 5 Million Dirty Reasons for Record Deportations
http://www.alternet.org/immigration/there-are-5-million-dirty-reasons-record-deportations
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George Zoley is America's highest paid "corrections officer" and CEO of private prison giant GEO Group. Zoley made $22 million in compensation between 2008 and 2012. CMD estimates that GEO Group makes 86 percent of its revenue from the taxpayers. GEO Group writes language into private prison contracts that forces taxpayers to keep prisons full or else pay for empty beds.
The Congressional Bed Mandate is another manifestation of the private prison debacle and because the victims weren't born in the United States, there's a significant percentage of the country who doesn't even want to hear about the problem. This is the impact of the dehumanization of undocumented immigrants.
There's no outcry if they aren't treated humanely.
Why are Democrats like Cuellar or Kirkpatrick going along with it? Why were they among the Democrats who voted against ending the Bed Mandate? They had a chance when legislation called the Deutch Amendment was brought up that would have ended this cruel and inhumane policy.
