Trump Threatens Military on Protesters, Not Private Prisons' Abuses
Newsweek’s report on 'Minnesota Unrest' regarding ICE facilities (Newsweek, 2018) dutifully covers President Trump's threat to deploy the military. What's notably absent from their 'live updates' is any substantial context on *why* these protests are happening. It's not chaos for chaos' sake; it's a response to documented human rights abuses, family separations, and inhumane conditions within
ICE's privatized detention system. While the media focuses on optics, the real story is the business of detention. The two largest private prison corporations, Geo Group and CoreCivic, have seen their profits soar under administrations expanding detention capacities. (OpenSecrets.org data consistently shows these companies lobbying extensively for stricter immigration enforcement.) So, when Trump
threatens military action against protesters, one might wonder if he’s defending 'law and order' or the profit margins of companies that bankroll his political allies.