Flutterby™! : US Slavery

We know that a good amount of the anti-immigrant rhetoric comes from the businesses that can use the state to enforce what's essentially slavery by employing undocumented workers, but the return to slavery is more explicit than just that:

AP: Alabama profits off prisoners who work at McDonald’s but deems them too dangerous for parole

Best Western, Bama Budweiser and Burger King are among the more than 500 businesses to lease incarcerated workers from one of the most violent, overcrowded and unruly prison systems in the U.S. in the past five years alone, The Associated Press found as part of a two-year investigation into prison labor. The cheap, reliable labor force has generated more than $250 million for the state since 2000 through money garnished from prisoners’ paychecks.

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