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For-profit immigrant detention centers were expanded under Obama.

These are hellish de facto prisons where immigrants live in inhuman conditions and corporations profit from them working for $1 per day.

Trump is expanding bipartisan dystopian policies. salon.com/2017/05/16/pri…
Some of us reported on the Obama admin's Trumpian dehumanization and exploitation of immigrants and support for privated for-profit incarceration.

Not only was there little interest at the time; we were demonized by Dems posing as the Resistance™ today
salon.com/2016/03/04/the…
Activists vociferously condemned Deporter-in-Chief Obama's Trumpian anti-immigrant policies, but they were ignored and even silenced by the neoliberal partisan hacks who have rebranded as defenders of immigrants today, now that a Republican is doing it
salon.com/2016/01/04/rig…
Like usual, it was neoliberal right-wing Democrats who helped mainstream hellish policies that were later exacerbated by racist Republicans like Trump

1996 laws signed by Bill Clinton led to arbitrary detention, fast-track deportations & family separation salon.com/2016/04/27/bil…
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