Lessons Learned: “Immigrants For Sale”
This week has been a tremendous learning experience for me. Before I started as a story producer for “Immigrants for Sale,” I didn’t know much about private prisons or their powerful influence on lawmakers—much less that SB 1070 was drafted with the interests of the private prison industry in mind.
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Read moreNPR: Prison Economics Help Drive Ariz. Immigration Law
Via NPR
Last year, two men showed up in Benson, Ariz., a small desert town 60 miles from the Mexico border, offering a deal.
Glenn Nichols, the Benson city manager, remembers the pitch.
“The gentleman that’s the main thrust of this thing has a huge turquoise ring on his finger,” Nichols said. “He’s a great big huge guy and I equated him to a car salesman.”
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