And he says it will cost too much and be too bloated. Hilarious.
On the Graham amendment, yes it increases prison sentence for felon aliens. Of course just keeping them out in the first place would solve that wouldn’t it? But we don’t see Graham doing that! His amendment is for his friends in the private prison system.
Senator Lindsey O. Graham (R-SC)
Political Action Committee Contributions: 2005-2006 Campaign Cycle
CORRECTIONS CORPORATION OF AMERICA INC POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $2614
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/bio/fec/?id=531&cycle=2005-2006
Some background on private prisons, aliens and buying politicians.
Private prisons are BIG business and they contribute BIG $ to candidates. The president has benefited from it along with many politicians. When you look at them they are the same politicos who push ‘immigration reform’. Illegal aliens are good business for the private prison industry.
And then you have Philip Perry, who recently resigned as head council for Homeland Security under a cloud of suspicion, a lobbyist for Lockheed Martin and Corrections Corp, a private prison system.
http://sopr.senate.gov/cgi-win/m_opr_viewer.exe?DoFn=3&LOB=PERRY,%20PHILIP%20J.&LOBQUAL==
Who is Phil Perry?
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2007/02/exposing-dept-of-job-security-who-is.html
http://realcostofprisons.org/blog/archives/2004/10/cca_and_cracker.html
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CCA, the nation’s largest private prison company, has credited the Bush administration’s expansion of federal police for creating new business for the firm.
Three times, the Corrections Corporation of America Political Action Committee made $15,000 donations to the National Republican Senatorial Committee. A number of $5,000 donations went to the Bush-Cheney campaign, the New Republican Majority Fund, and other GOP money groups.
Of the $149,500 doled out by the company’s PAC in the 2004 election cycle, 96 percent went to Republicans around the country.
The $5,000 spent on Democrats went to Tennessee politicians- Reps. Jim Cooper, Lincoln Davis, John Tanner and Harold Ford Jr., according to data from the Federal Election Commission.
Money was also doled out to candidates from states where CCA has deals to run prisons, such as Colorado, Georgia and Florida.
Dick Williams, state chairman for Common Cause of Tennessee, a Nashville-based government watchdog group, said it’s obvious that CCA is trying to buy influence.
CCA wins when politicians from the local to federal level decide to send prisoners to its private jails, he said.
Not that any of it really matters, since they won't enforce the law anyway.
It's a joke.
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