Georgia has passed a "tough" new immigration law that allows state and local law enforcement to get involved with the immigration status of people they are questioning as well as fines and jail time for those associated with migrants. While it might hurt the agricultural, construction, and general service economy of Georgia, it seems that there is one segment of the population that will profit: private prisons.
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It's funny how we overlook the real economic fact that poor people is big business. And of course so is immigration security. It seems in the absence of cold war military bases as a means of federal stimulus, we now have immigration stimulus funding. Here is an NPR article about the lobbying impact of private prison firms on Arizona public policy: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130833741
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