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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsContracts Show ICE planned Detainee Labor at Warehouse Sites Slated as Short-Term Facilities
They had contracts for prison labor at these camps?? Before they even bought them?
— Rachel Maddow (@maddow.bsky.social) 2026-05-15T18:21:51.553Z
www.projectsaltbox.com/p/contracts-...
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Contracts Show ICE planned Detainee Labor at Warehouse Sites Slated as Short-Term Facilities (Original Post)
red dog 1
6 hrs ago
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malaise
(297,844 posts)1. Private prisons and detention camps
are the new plantations.
Duh!
ananda
(35,475 posts)4. I've been saying this would happen for over a year.
Not only that, I think billionaires will create their own
safe havens for slave labor also. Maybe they already
have.
Rec
DBoon
(25,138 posts)2. A Gulag
A system of forced labor camps.
Khrushchev ended them in the Soviet Union.
Trump is bringing them to the USA.
pecosbob
(8,486 posts)3. Of course they did.
This was the plan from the start. Con Agra needs a stable source of labor.
republianmushroom
(22,661 posts)6. trumps American SS Gestapo
CoopersDad
(3,366 posts)7. Child labor in family concentration camps, probably OK.
Nothing would surprise me at this point.