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Biophilic

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2. None of this makes any sense financially.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Thu Jun 26, 2025, 09:28 AM

Jun 26

We are incarcerating and/or deporting wage earners who pay taxes and support their communities in exchange for huge wasteful tax dollar projects like this. Even if it weren't morally wrong, which it is, it is financially stupid. That is, unless you believe, as I am coming to, that the whole process is meant to destroy the middle class and leave a small low wage earner class to do menial work for the wealthy.

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Plan to open California's largest immigration jail sparks outrage [View all] BumRushDaShow Jun 26 OP

American concentration camps ....final solution for democracy NotHardly Jun 26 #1

None of this makes any sense financially. Biophilic Jun 26 #2

Those people creon Jun 26 #3

Oblivio sum, et nos multi sumus. ananda Jun 26 #4

If they are all going to be deported what do we need immigration jails for ??? SamKnause Jun 26 #5

To use for "teevee staging" BumRushDaShow Jun 26 #6

In the Mojave Desert lildDemz Jun 26 #7

Check to see how much the corporations/CEO 's who run these prisons contributed to the orange taco Hitler kimbutgar Jun 26 #8

The Trump Admin contracting with a huge private prison. Nothing sounds good about this at all. riversedge Jun 26 #9