NO! They shouldn't be allowed to profit from locking up immigrants.
17%
NO! No private company has any business in any policy debate!
83%
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Thom's Blog Is On the Move
By webmaster
Hello All
Thom's blog in this space and moving to a new home.
Please follow us across to hartmannreport.com - this will be the only place going forward to read Thom's blog posts and articles.
Images of Thom
With His Holiness The Dalai Lama, at His home in Dharamsala, India (Synthesis Dialogues - made into a movie narrated by Harrison Ford)
Thom & Louise at a "private audience" with His Holiness Pope John Paul II at his summer palace, Castle Gandolfo, Italy
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As a former public school teacher I am reminded as to why I am resistant to business sticking it's nose into public policy. While I was teaching in the 80's, local businesses decided that they wanted to "Donate" to our public schools. This translated into business dictating what was being taught. Tweeking curriculum so that student learning suited the needs of the local corporations rather than individual student needs.
Business is self serving having no regard for human and responsible immigration reform or any other public policy and should therefore be excluded from any and all debates.
If I could have voted NO to both of the above options I would have. The word "private" should not even be in the same sentence with "prisons." There should be no such thing as private prisons.