AlterNet: Arizona’s Immigration Law Is Great … For Our Prison-Industrial Complex

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Posted by Joshua Holland at 12:19 pm
April 27, 2010 11

Arizona’s Immigration Law Is Great … For Our Prison-Industrial Complex


All these hippies whining about “racial profiling” are missing the larger point.

We’re in a recession here. Unemployment’s been hovering at ten percent. Perhaps the economy’s turned a corner, but the American labor market hasn’t.

Yet nobody’s really talking about how Arizona’s new immigration law is going to bring big business to the Copper State.

In 2006, when DHS only had 1.5 million people going through immigration proceedings, the Washington Post reported that ICE held “more detainees a night than Clarion Hotels have guests, operates nearly as many vehicles as Greyhound has buses and flies more people each day than do many small U.S. airlines.”

Someone’s got to guard those detainees, clean those buses and fly those planes — we’re talking about American jobs! ........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/04/27/arizonas-sick-immigration-law-is-great-for-our-prison-industrial-complex/