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ICE Has Stopped Paying Contractors for Detainee Medical Treatment | Despite ample funding, the agency halted payments in October. They may not resume for several months. (www.motherjones.com)

submitted 4 months ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/usa@midwest.social

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This is step 1 in converting concentration camps into death camps.

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[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 14 points 4 months ago

Cruelty is the objective.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Trump never pays his bills. You’d think contractors and other businesses would have figured this out by now.

Someone’s going to inherit that big empty hole next to the White House when work stops on the “ballroom” for the same reason.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The people in detention don't get any choice when doctors who aren't getting paid stop working. They just go without care, with a whole lot presumably dieing of preventable causes. Like this

“The most frequent feedback we got was the inadequacy of the medical care they are receiving,” said Schiff. He described meeting a diabetic detainee who he said has not received treatment for her condition in two months. “That’s frightening,” he said.