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angrychair

(12,170 posts) Thu Feb 19, 2026, 01:01 AM Feb 19

Hey, just thinking out loud here

Why is DHS spending $40+ BILLION DOLLARS on giant detention facilities from coast to coast if the plan is to deport people? Who, exactly, are they for?

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Hey, just thinking out loud here (Original Post) angrychair Feb 19 OP

The money all gets funneled to private contractors newdeal2 Feb 19 #1

Yes IF they fill the beds. Who's going to be in those beds? live love laugh Feb 19 #5

There is so much waste in procurement newdeal2 Feb 19 #10

It takes time to get permission from third party countries to accept deportees Fiendish Thingy Feb 19 #2

Long enough to hold enough immigrants wnylib Feb 19 #4

Yeah, I've been thinking about that; too. wnylib Feb 19 #3

Us! Randomthought Feb 19 #6

I've got my own little list... Shipwack Feb 19 #7

Just wait until you hear the words "These illegal protests". JohnnyRingo Feb 19 #8

Looks like someone found out that at least some of the permit applications include 'incinerators' for bio-waste. SeattleVet Feb 19 #9

newdeal2

(5,307 posts)

1. The money all gets funneled to private contractors

Reply to angrychair (Original post)

Thu Feb 19, 2026, 01:06 AM

Feb 19

Aka their donors.

live love laugh

(16,337 posts)

5. Yes IF they fill the beds. Who's going to be in those beds?

Reply to newdeal2 (Reply #1)

Thu Feb 19, 2026, 01:42 AM

Feb 19

newdeal2

(5,307 posts)

10. There is so much waste in procurement

Reply to live love laugh (Reply #5)

Thu Feb 19, 2026, 08:14 AM

Feb 19

You don’t have to fill a space in order to spend huge money on a facility and stocking it with equipment, food, and employees sitting around doing nothing.

See “Alligator Alcatraz” and the no-bid contracts.

Fiendish Thingy

(22,926 posts)

2. It takes time to get permission from third party countries to accept deportees

Reply to angrychair (Original post)

Thu Feb 19, 2026, 01:10 AM

Feb 19

So that provides the opportunity for some profiteering by the prison-industrial complex, combined with recreational cruelty.

wnylib

(25,729 posts)

4. Long enough to hold enough immigrants

Reply to Fiendish Thingy (Reply #2)

Thu Feb 19, 2026, 01:18 AM

Feb 19

for $40 billion worth of construction?

wnylib

(25,729 posts)

3. Yeah, I've been thinking about that; too.

Reply to angrychair (Original post)

Thu Feb 19, 2026, 01:12 AM

Feb 19

Herr Drumpf has future plans for his opponents.

First they came for the socialists,but but I was not a socialist ...etc.

American version - First, they came for the immigrants....