The authorities want you to believe that increased security at the borders and deportations will make us safer.
However, our tax dollars are being wasted on for-profit private detention centers such as GEO Group [GEO] and Correction Corporation of America [CCA] where thousands of undocumented immigrants are housed in 120 facilities throughout the U.S. until deportation.
We have been fooled by corporations who profit from lucrative deals to build private prisons on publicly traded stock options.
Deportation incarceration centers are not a panacea for reducing terrorism, solving economic problems or bringing jobs back to America.
In fact, it may be surprising to know that in order to insure corporations from losses, the private prison contracts with the states and federal government usually include a clause that if the bed space falls below a minimum of 90 percent then the state and federal government will be obligated to pay the corporation for the shortfall.
This guarantee clause is what makes the industry a fail-safe publicly traded stock option and a tax burden to citizens.
Ironically, the practice of contracting prison services from private corporations is similar to the use of private contractors in the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Taxpayers are the ones who pay the exorbitant bills, not the contractors who overcharge the state and federal governments for those services.
The only security that private prisons provide is stockholder satisfaction.
David Cowan,
Port Angeles