“We left one tyranny and came to another kind of tyranny.”
“In Russia, police tell us, ‘We are the law, as we say goes.’ We came here, and they tell us exactly the same thing.”
NBC news’ Mike Hixenbaugh attributes these quotes to a Russian man named Nikita, whose last name is withheld because he fears retaliation if he is forced to return to his home country, Russia. Nikita, his wife Oksana, and their three children ages 13, 12, and 4, fled Russia for fear that Vladimir Putin’s brutal régime would retaliate against them over Nikita’s anti-war activism. Following both international and U.S. law intended to protect political asylum seekers, they presented themselves at the U.S. border and requested asylum. An asylum judge agreed that the threat against them was credible.
Under most previous non-Trump administrations, the family would likely have been allowed to live freely in the U.S. while awaiting their hearing. Instead, as of the time of NBC’s article, they had been living in the Dilley Detention Center for 131 days, which is more than six times the length the law states the government is allowed to keep children in immigration detention.
Hixenbaugh summarizes the conditions they live with at Dilley: “Worms in their food. Guards shouting orders and snatching toys from small hands. Restless nights under fluorescent lights that never fully go dark. Hours in line for a single pill.” The couple’s 12-year-old may permanently lose the hearing in one ear due to poor medical treatment.
The article notes that CoreCivic, the private company running the prison, defers all questions to DHS. Dilley, CoreCivic, and DHS all have one thing in common: they are beyond reform. They need to be shut down.
(Taken from an email sent to me by Never Again Action.)
“What are we, a bunch of Asians??”
Another winner of the Fell For It Again award. How many times are Russians going to allow themselves to be fooled by western liberal propaganda?
Russian gusanos are not smarter than gusanos in other countries, so probably a lot.
Russian libs finally realising Russian media wasn’t lying about USA xd
whose last name is withheld to protect his identity
Ah, how could the Russian government find out who someone named Nikita, wife’s name Oksana, has three children aged 4, 12 and 13, who visited America 131 days ago and hasn’t been back since(or at least that they were all out of the country together at that time), supposed to be?
A real mystery that’ll be.
WAWABOA
russians are asiatic mongoloid horde, russian being shorthand for evil makes me feel like it is simple to explain that russians are not categorized as white to others, but when i talk to others i know i cant say this without sounding insane to them
The article notes that CoreCivic, the private company running the prison, defers all questions to DHS. Dilley, CoreCivic, and DHS all have one thing in common: they are beyond reform. They need to be shut down.
Some context I could find on CoreCivic:
from late 2025: https://timesofsandiego.com/politics/2025/10/06/corecivic-300-million-ice-contracts/
CoreCivic prison company will rake in $300 million from new ICE contracts
also from late 2025: https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2025/08/19/corecivic-damon-hininger-ice-immigration/85723038007/
CoreCivic CEO to step down amid flurry of ICE contracts, soaring profits, prison violence
CoreCivic CEO Damon Hininger will step down after serving as head of the Brentwood-based private prison giant since 2009.
The company in an Aug. 18 announcement said President and COO Patrick Swindle will replace Hininger. Swindle will also take Hininger’s seat on CoreCivic’s board.
“I am humbled by the opportunity to have served this great company since I started my career as a correctional officer in 1992," Hininger said in a statement.
What a shock that the previous CEO started out as working for the prison system and became a CEO of a company profiting off of it. Something something revolving door.
The leadership change comes as CoreCivic and GEO Group - the country’s two largest private prison systems - have reported significant profits amid the sharp rise in immigration arrests and detainments.
In a second quarter earnings call on Aug. 11, Hininger said the country is seeing the highest detention populations ever recorded by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which has been CoreCivic’s largest customer.
“Our business is perfectly aligned with the demands of this moment,” he said. “We are in an unprecedented environment with rapid increases in federal detention populations nationwide and a continuing need for solutions we provide.”
Capitalist profit language in service of a manufactured rise in imprisoning people is some wild shit to read. It still boggles my mind that for-profit prisons are even a thing.
I used to think that for-profit prisons are the problem but looking the industry as a whole it is significantly a state system. I now think the prison industry (state or private) in the West is the outgrowth of having a capitalist “middle class” - for example here it is the average white US American and their co-westerners as a class that has helped with the the formation of the prison indusry as we know it now. It is an extension of the civil society and their lynching of black and native peoples in the formation of the US.
You make a good point. I was kinda second-guessing emphasizing that part. The US would still be a nightmare prison complex with or without for-profit prisons, of that I’m sure. I do think there is something distinct, though, about formally tying market profit motives to putting people in prison and keeping them there.
I’ll be honest this way of thinking I have pointed is relatively new for me - as I am learning more as an ML, or more accurately understanding more clearly from a DM perspective certain leftovers I have assumed as left-liberal aren’t necessarily so cut and dry. I wonder if many of the X-industry-complexes have similar aetiolgies; rather than a tiny elite extracting surplus value it is a whole system of bourgoisie + petty-bourgoisie + borugoisie proleteriat that benefit from the exploitation; the content/essence is capitalism but the form might be private or public, state or civil society.
(Another one is western intelligence services like the CIA - rather than a small groups controlling things from behind the scenes they are instead the vanguards of the masses of bourgoisie society made up of the above three groups).
What is this? Soviet russia?
We could only wish, comrade lol
“You’re worse than a bunch of asian people!”
Russia isn’t the worst one ↘️
