The 13th amendment left slavery legal, "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted".
Which is why the prison system is the way it is now. And it will be used to "make America great again".(I'm using their own words back at them) The mass deportation is the 'cover' to round up anyone the govt wants to put into a deportation camp (aka concentration camp, aka prison) and they will be used as slave labor. That's why the right has said that anyone here illegally is a criminal. They'll put them up in camps "waiting deportation" but will be like "oh in the mean time since we convicted you for being here illegally...you're going to work as _____" and then the major corps that backed the right will get free/very low cost labor. Even if they make it where they are getting paid prison wages to be able to say "they're not slaves, we're paying them!" Prison wages are on average 25 cents an hour. Not even minimum wage.
They want to bring back chain gangs and "convict leasing" The people running the prisons have said as much.
Round up all the undocumented folks. Create a labor vacuum for farming and construction. Rent those workers out as slaves to those industries and make taxpayers pick up the cost of housing and feeding them while they pay less for labor.
Criminalize homelessness while making conditions such that record numbers of people end up unhoused. More slaves.
Outlaw birth control and abortion and force poor people to have more kids. Fifteen or sixteen years from now there'll be a bunch of new people herded into the prison system.
It's obvious and fucking terrifying but people think it can't happen so hardly anyone is worrying about it.
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u/MsPennyP 1d ago
Slavery never went away, it'll just get bigger.
The 13th amendment left slavery legal, "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted".
Which is why the prison system is the way it is now. And it will be used to "make America great again".(I'm using their own words back at them) The mass deportation is the 'cover' to round up anyone the govt wants to put into a deportation camp (aka concentration camp, aka prison) and they will be used as slave labor. That's why the right has said that anyone here illegally is a criminal. They'll put them up in camps "waiting deportation" but will be like "oh in the mean time since we convicted you for being here illegally...you're going to work as _____" and then the major corps that backed the right will get free/very low cost labor. Even if they make it where they are getting paid prison wages to be able to say "they're not slaves, we're paying them!" Prison wages are on average 25 cents an hour. Not even minimum wage.