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$11 toothpaste: Immigrants pay big for basics at private ICE lock-ups

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.

COMMENT:-

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?

Sounds like slavery to me.
 
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.

Do you know this from personal experience? Just wondering ...
 
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

Can you provide a link proving that claim? U.S. prisons price-gouge that way? $10 for a tube of toothpaste?
 
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.

"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





:roll:
 
I'm pretty sure the prison isn't buying from their supplier at Target prices either..

Why not? If they're paying retail, they're too stupid for words.
 
"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





:roll:

Indeed, yet the treaty which regulates asylum requires immediate presentation to the authorities and providing a legitimate reason consistent with the international criteria for asylum in order for illegal entry to be penalty-free.
 
Your philosophy is inspiring. Clearly you are a good person. A real humanitarian. You're an example to us all...….

Its typical Right Wing response, I got mine so screw the rest of ya.
 
Dood probably should have stayed home. Or maybe tried to sneak into Canada illegally.
 
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.

In fact, in almost every state that HAS private prisons, those private prison operators have SUED those states whenever they find themselves with too many empty beds. Of all the ridiculous situations a taxpayer could find themselves in, the most outrageous one I can think of at the moment is taxpayers having to pay reparations to a prison owner because crime is down.

If someone had told me ten years ago that we would be penalized for having a low crime rate, I would have laughed them out of the room. And yet here we are.
 
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.

you have not been to the prisons in Honduras....that is clear. I lived in Honduras for years....the prisoners there are allowed to work and make whatever money they feel like by selling goods....they also have cell phones, free visits with the wife or girlfriend, weekends out of jail, and they have full on restaurants there.
 
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.

Um, yeah kids die in Guatemala and Honduras. An 11 year old was recently hacked to death with a machete in Honduras.
 
Did you know that it is NOT illegal to seek asylum in the United States of America?
At least, not yet.

more than likely he didn't go to a port of entry. he crossed illegally like the majority of them are doing.
again if he doesn't like the free stuff he is given then that is his choice.

he could easily go back to his own country work and buy whatever he wants.
 
Um, yeah kids die in Guatemala and Honduras. An 11 year old was recently hacked to death with a machete in Honduras.

You don't seem to understand his argument. he is saying that the Border patrol is responsible for his death when it isn't.
 
You people insist on showing an ID to excercise our civil rights. Do you want to apply that "you" making groceries, to?

Those Russian-to-English translators don't always work correctly.
 
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