Immigration Reform: Killed by the For Profit Corporate Prison Lobby

http://www.alternet.org/immigration/how-profit-corporate-prison-lobby-killed-immigration-reform?akid=12021.294211.19M87p&rd=1&src=newsletter1011435&t=21

It is no longer what is best for our country, it is what is going to make money for the 1% wealthiest.

The owners of the for-profit corporate prison system and their lobbyists have more power than all the human rights forces combined. Overcoming the pro-incarceration, anti-immigrant lobby that thrives on government enforcement of the racially motivated U.S. immigration system is key to stopping the mass arrests, incarcerations, and deportations of hardworking immigrants. To overcome that lobby, pro-human rights, pro-immigrants forces need to convince the local, public institutions that finance for-profit corporate prisons to divest from the prison industrial complex and invest their (and the publics) money in something else.