Newsweek Discovers Detaining Legal Immigrants Costs Money, Not Souls
Newsweek's recent opinion piece agonizes over the financial burden of detaining immigrants who, ironically, are authorized to work. The article highlights how keeping these individuals locked up is a drain on taxpayer dollars. What it conveniently omits is the multi-billion-dollar detention industry itself, a system often privatized, lobbying for policies that guarantee a steady stream of
detainees. This isn't an accidental financial oversight; it's a feature, not a bug, of a profit-driven immigration enforcement regime. One might wonder if the 'cost' they're truly concerned about is the loss of cheap labor, rather than the intrinsic value of human freedom. The discourse frames their detention as an economic inefficiency, rather than a fundamental injustice. How many 'opinion'
pieces will it take for the media to question the very premise of mass detention, instead of just its invoice?