"... took upon herself the job of informing the British people and the world of the atrocities the Empire was committing in its South African concentration camps during the Second Boer War. The parallels to the news of the day seemed obvious. ...[T]he camps that so horrified Hobhouse consisted of women and children living in tents. So imagine my non-surprise to discover that... the administration decided to move some of the kids out of some of the worst conditions... to another site to live...in tents!... because this is America, where the enterprise is always free, and... almost a decade after the Supreme Court legalized influence-peddling, our politicians are free to take money from those who make money off facilities like these... There is a historic exercise in human misery being undertaken by the United States government in South Texas... and if you take money from people making a pile out of that misery, you're complicit. Sorry, but that's the iron logic of atrocities."
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Charlie Pierce, Housing Migrants Is a For-Profit Business. Members of Congress Are Doing Their Part. (June 25, 2019), Esquire.
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