Prisons Profit From And Push Anti-Immigrant Legislation

A point from Brave New Foundation on how the new draconian immigration laws are being used to line the pockets of the private prison industry are discussed by Axel Caballero (activist and founder of Cuentame), Steve Ross (USC history professor and author), Rick Overton (actor, comedian and Emmy Award-winning writer) and Cenk Uygur (host, The Young Turks).

Watch more points: http://www.youtube.com/thepoint

Cuentame: http://www.facebook.com/cuentame

Immigrants for sale: http://mycuentame.org/immigrantsforsale/

Steve Ross's book: http://www.amazon.com/Hollywood-Left-Right-American-Politics/dp/0195181727

Rick Overton: http://www.rickoverton.net/

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News & Politics

Tags:

• immigration prison
• profit immigrants prisons
• undocumented immigrants
• illegal immigrants
• immigrants for sale
• immigrant abuse
• war on drugs
• drug war
• axel caballero
• cenk uygur
• steven ross
• rick overton
• young turks

[ddvs2012]

@PatriotSue yea, have fun picking your own corn, mowing your own lawn, mixing your own fertlizers, because other "hard working" white people sure as hell arent going to do it for you

[dylanh123]

@PatriotSue What a silly comment! You missed the whole point of the discussion. Your prison system is now based on profit. Lobbyists are succeeding in changing legislation to put people in jails for minor offences just to earn money. Define patriot

[joanarc1111]

Please watch my story"TIFFANY LEBOUEF SEEKS JUSTICE". I have documents to prove my innocence yet no one wants to even acknowledge it. My life has been destroyed.

Look up PRISON STOCKS....very lucrative....WHO ARE THE INVESTORS???

I HOPE NOT THE JUDGES AND POLITICIANS.......

[jimjonesable]

it's a conspiracy perhaps but the pro immigration protesters i have seen in yt vids are quite racist shouting its their land, well 12ft by 12ft cell can be their new homeland! the hipocrisy of this administration is contradictory and quite baffling. why didnt obama sue the dea for cracking down on mj users in cali like he did to the people of arizona for their law which likewise mirrored a federal law ?

[Moviesandvideo]

@WildBuck007 In Arizona you're ''held'' for months at a time for ''review'' even if you haven't done anything wrong.

[stonethugmusic]

I'M GIVEN THIS VIDEO TO EVERYONE I KNOW FOR REAL " ...

[TheWhiteOp]

i knew that america had profit prisons and that it was slowly corrupting america but i did not realize how deep it was america i think it needs to reset and redesign your government (possibly revolution?) because even if you vote for a non corrupt person when they enter politics they ether get instantly corrupted or they get shut out i mean look at ron paul i don't agree with a lot of his views but he definitely isn't bought out so he gets shut out news will only report the bare minimum of him

[SpookyJohnathan]

In my corner of Shithole, America I lost my job as a security guard to Wackenhut contractors, a subsidiary of ALEC Corp. Now prisoners are forced to guard the mine I used to work at, for four dollars a day. Ironic? Even more ironic is the fact that jobs throughout my area are getting outsourced to private prisons, and lots of men like me are turning to criminal enterprises to feed their families. More crime = more prisoners = cheaper labor = fewer jobs for law abiding citizens = more crime.

[PatriotSue]

@drpeppa2357 Don't you have them? Better take them.

[drpeppa2357]

@PatriotSue Lost your meds?

[WildBuck007]

If prisons are so profitable. I know that it is a slippery slope with whom fills them.

On the other hand. If they suggest hispanic people fill them the most. Exactly what are they doing to be sent in the first place?

Model citizens?

You are not typically rounded up like a jew in 1940, by the nazis. So obviously they are either doing something wrong or it is a massive cover up. Which do you believe? The obvious is they are breaking laws. Targeted or not. It is the most obvious reason.

[styrofoamheart]

@ddvs2012 thanks. I replied to daneblan above, but it's really for both of you. :)