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They thought they were going to rehab. They ended up in chicken plants (revealnews.org)
41 points by mhasbini on Oct 4, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 7 comments


Horrifying. What can an ordinary person do about such a grotesque miscarriage of justice, when it's backed by powerful moneyed interests and the local "justice" department is fully on board?

>Before CAAIR, McGahey had no interest in drugs. Now, he says he can’t live without them

That's some "rehab".


It's not a matter of when class war will break out in the US, but rather when enough of the working class will realize they've been losing it for decades.


This reads like a horror you'd expect from China or North Korea. Rather than the USA.


This kind of abuse is pretty quintessentially capitalistic. It is exploiting the weak for no reason but to make money - no ideology underpins it but the bottom line. You might find a similar story in China now that it is economically capitalist, but the horror of North Korea is of an entirely different character.


I don't know, I hear more of these stories from the USA than from the other two. Granted NK probably has a stricter policy on journalists. But this seems very common for the US.


Undocumented migrants are treated just about the same at the five mega-processing plants. Amputations without access to workers’ comp. are common.


It reads like "The Jungle".




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