DHS Was Built to Come After People Like Me. Now, They Are After All of Us.

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This story is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis.  After 9/11, fear changed the U.S. That fear was exploited by our government, fostering a culture of complacency and turning Americans against one another in pursuit of “securing the homeland.” As a first-generation Iraqi American, I understand that on a deeply…

DHS is demanding even more to help build immigration prisons around the country. If they build them, we can be certain that they will fill them

If you think ICE/DHS is buying all those warehouses just to lock up immigrants, you are sadly mistaken. Private prisons have become a business model. And we should all know by now how far the government will go out of its way to protect shareholders.

Excellent article BTW.

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