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Too bad ... cry me a river.
From Reuters
$11 toothpaste: Immigrants pay big for basics at private ICE lock-ups
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Detained in a California lockup with hundreds of other immigrants seeking asylum, Duglas Cruz faced a choice.
He could content himself with a jailhouse diet that he said left him perpetually hungry. Or he could labor in the prison’s kitchen to earn money to buy extra food at the commissary.
Cruz went to work. But his $1-a-day salary at the privately run Adelanto Detention Facility did not stretch far.
A can of commissary tuna sold for $3.25. That is more than four times the price at a Target store near the small desert town of Adelanto, about two hours northeast of Los Angeles. Cruz stuck with ramen noodles at 58 cents a package, double the Target price. A miniature deodorant stick, at $3.35 and more than three days’ wages, was an impossible luxury, he said.
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Well, who didn't expect that people who run prisons for profit would do whatever is necessary to make as big a profit as possible?
Besides, it was his own choice to take the job at the wages offered - he didn't have to - so he really can't complain.
Right?
Absolute decadence compared to prison life in Honduras where everything is commissary. You can pay 150 USD for a bedframe or sleep in the dirt. There’s no running water and if you want food then better catch and cook the rats.
Really?
Would you like to prove that? Please note, the word "best" and the word "American" do NOT have identical meanings.
US citizens who are in jail awaiting trial face the same kind of price gouging so its no specific to illegal aliens.
Best way to avoid having to pay the 10x markup would be obey the laws and stay out of jail
He was given a free meal and clothes and everything else.
if he doesn't like it then he shouldn't have tried to come over here illegally.
breaking the law has consequences.
I'm pretty sure the prison isn't buying from their supplier at Target prices either..
They're getting the best healthcare in the world, for free.
But surely you need an ID to buy it, said the very-in-touch rightwinger.
Tell that "you" all those Canadians:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&sou...aw2tGstvX50p6uq2ySyEwiYf&ust=1548004269834117
Like a gun?
"You may apply for asylum if you are at a port of entry or in the United States. You may apply for asylum regardless of your immigration status and within one year of your arrival to the United States."
https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/...d-answers-asylum-eligibility-and-applications
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Your philosophy is inspiring. Clearly you are a good person. A real humanitarian. You're an example to us all...….
Wherever there is a profit motive for whatever cause, you should expect to see more of it... and private prisons make more money when there are more in prison.
Absolute decadence compared to prison life in Honduras where everything is commissary. You can pay 150 USD for a bedframe or sleep in the dirt. There’s no running water and if you want food then better catch and cook the rats.
Kids weren't dying if they would have stayed home. They died because they were taken through inhospitable terrain in unsanitary conditions for miles and miles.
they picked up who knows what along the way. that would be on the parents or adults that were there. so now that your appeal to emotion is taken care of.
like everything else there are added costs in those supplies. they can't just be brought in. all supplies brought in have to be inspected and approved before distribution.
this inspection etc costs additional money.
again he is already provided 3 meals a day along with everything else for free.
no one says that he has to work and buy these expensive items. those are fully up to him.
"You may apply for asylum if you are at a port of entry or in the United States. You may apply for asylum regardless of your immigration status and within one year of your arrival to the United States."
https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/...d-answers-asylum-eligibility-and-applications
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Like groceries!
Did you know that it is NOT illegal to seek asylum in the United States of America?
At least, not yet.
"You may apply for asylum if you are at a port of entry or in the United States. You may apply for asylum regardless of your immigration status and within one year of your arrival to the United States."
https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/...d-answers-asylum-eligibility-and-applications
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Um, yeah kids die in Guatemala and Honduras. An 11 year old was recently hacked to death with a machete in Honduras.
You people insist on showing an ID to excercise our civil rights. Do you want to apply that "you" making groceries, to?