Yes, There Is a Trump Infrastructure Project Already Under Way: For-Profit Prisons for Immigrants

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One of the regular complaints lodged against the new Trump administration is that the president’s long-discussed plans for job-boosting infrastructure investments are still largely a matter of vague promises that his allies in Congress don’t seem to take very seriously.

But hey, that may be unfair. There is one area where there’s a lot of excitement in the air about new construction and new jobs: in the private prison industry! And that’s not just because the president appears generally to enjoy incarcerating people, or because he strongly rejected the plans of both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to end the practice of warehousing criminals in for-profit facilities. No, there’s a real-live boom under way for private prison companies thanks to Trump’s early executive order calling for an expansion of detention centers for undocumented immigrants near the U.S.-Mexico border.

Overshadowed by the chaotically implemented and soon-stalled travel ban, Trump’s border-enforcement order is being implemented. And among other things, that’s meant happy days are here again for private prisons, as explained by Jenny Jarvie of the Los Angeles Times, who went to South Texas and felt the excitement:

When John Chavez peers through chain link and razor wire into the vast tent city that once housed one of the nation’s most notorious prisons for immigrants, he does not see a failed experiment.

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http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/02/trumps-first-infrastructure-project-prison-for-immigrants.html

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1. or as Keith Olbermann posited: Concentration camps.

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