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Senate Approves Unprecedented Spending for Mass Deportation, Ignoring What’s Broken in our Immigration System (www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org)

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$45 billion for building new immigration detention centers, including family detention facilities. This represents a 265 percent annual budget increase to ICE’s current detention budget. It is a 62 percent larger budget than the entire federal prison system and could result in daily detention of at least 116,000 non-citizens.

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[–] Armand1@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Imagine if that kind of money were spent making people's lives better, instead of deliberately making people's lives worse at no benefit to anyone.

"Government efficiency" my ass.

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Probably with the help of lobbying private prison owners