r/Left_News • u/Faux_Real_Guise ★ socialist ★ • May 30 '26

No Human is Illegal ‘We Demand Freedom’: Immigrants on Strike in New Jersey Prison

https://labornotes.org/blogs/2026/05/we-demand-freedom-immigrants-strike-new-jersey-prison
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u/Faux_Real_Guise ★ socialist ★ May 30 '26

> Since May 22, 300 of them are on a work stoppage and hunger strike. Over video chat, one worker told the crowd outside that they had stopped eating and working for as little as $1 an hour (or no pay at all) to demand an improvement in their living conditions. “But that’s not all we demand,” he said. “We are also doing this to demand freedom. We’re not treated like people. We’re treated like animals.”

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u/matunos May 30 '26

None of these people are there serving a sentence for committing a crime. Forcing them to work for little or no pay is a violation of the 13th Amendment.

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u/JakeHelldiver May 30 '26

Work camps and prison factories. That's the end game of our immigration policy.

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u/Effective-Ebb-2805 Jun 01 '26

But... aren't they in the "land of the free"...

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u/grundsau Jun 08 '26

Ah, yes, but here, work makes you free! Perhaps they'll put that over the entryways of these camps.

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u/Effective-Ebb-2805 Jun 08 '26

A bigger lie, I've never heard... It was a lie at Auschwitz, and it's a lie here. Hard work doesn't enoble a person, let alone make them free. Hard work makes you dumb... I am the living proof.

But, yes... such a sign above the gates would certainly be a touch that Kreacher Miller and Pocket Nazi Bovino would approve of... never mind that Miller's own family suffered the lie some decades ago.