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@aral They are trying to compete with North Korea in this type of niche tourism and they appear to be doing a spectacular job.
I honestly believe that is more likely to be detained randomly without any sane motive in the US, at this point, than in North Korea
So much wining
@aral It has been pointed out to me that visiting any part of America, aside from the United States, is good.
@aral I hate it here
@aral surprise escape room experience
@aral What l absolutely don't understand: why detention? I mean, okay, when a country don't want someone to enter its soil it's probably acceptable to do the Gandalf and proclaim: "You Shall Not Pass". However where's the sense of bringing the person into the country, put her/him into a box and expell them after some time. Regardless of the cruelty involved, it just costs a lot of taxpayers' money.
I've been assuming the motive is quotas to fill. It's got to be a lot easier to meet a quota by detaining someone with a visa paperwork issue crossing the border, than to go raid homes of longstanding residents.
Hence, even when tourists in detention are begging to go back to their home countries, and have return tickets, they still aren't automatically released or even turned back at the border.
@PapyrusBrigade @aral As cruel as it is, it sounds plausible.
@PapyrusBrigade @agitatra @aral We have privatized immigration detention in the U.S. and it is a politically influential multi-billion dollar industry with vast growth potential https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/24/detained-us-largest-immigrant-detention-trump
@Lyle @PapyrusBrigade @agitatra @aral John Oliver just did an episode on ICE detention centers
@Lyle @PapyrusBrigade @aral People don't count only business?
@agitatra @PapyrusBrigade @aral Regardless of my personal views, every dollar speaks as loudly as any other dollar in the U.S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC
#FBPE 
@aral if i can just correct the reporter: "this is the third WHITE foreigner I speak to who has been sent to this private for profit detention centre". You're welcome.
@sheislaurence @aral absolutely. What’s happening to them is very bad but we’re hearing about them because they have the connections to get it into the press. The idea that this and worse isn’t happening more to brown people in the background is beyond unlikely.
@aral
You forgot the free extravagant jewellery
@aral The DOGE bros seemed to have missed an obvious way to save money; stop abusing and detaining in for profit facilities people who could just be denied entry,
Interesting "Canadian" sense of entitlement.
»“Every single guard that sees me is like 'What are you doing here? I don't understand - you’re Canadian. How are you here?'” Jasmine Mooney said in an interview from the Arizona immigration detention center she is now fighting to get out of.
Mooney told Team 10 she is appalled by the conditions inside the private for-profit detention facility in San Luis.
“I have never in my life seen anything so inhumane,” she said in an interview with Investigative Reporter Austin Grabish.«
Ouch! “America® – We do fascism right™”