Brooke Rollins, US Secretary of Agriculture:
"There will be no amnesty. The mass deportations continue but in a strategic way and we move the work force towards automation and 100% American participation, which again with 34 million able-bodied adults on Medicaid, we should be able to do that fairly quickly."
America really never got over losing slave labour.
Cassandrich
Unknown parent • • •@Crispius "The 13th Amendment in their constitution actually permits slavery for incarcerated persons"
NO IT DOES NOT.
It specifies:
"except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted"
This explicitly excludes the entire class of people they want to apply it to: those who have not been convicted or even accused of any crime, who are nominally being incarcerated pending non-criminal deportation action.
Of course they will try to apply this unconstitutionally. Mis-stating what the constitution says only helps them do that, though.