John Culberson, $32,900; Henry Cuellar – $32,400; John Cornyn, $10,000.  These are the contributions from private prison company GEO Group who operates immigrant detention centers all over Texas.  Let’s be clear here – GEO is a private contractor that runs federal prisons and detention centers for profit.  How do they profit?  By keeping bodies behind bars and spending as little as possible on their welfare.  Abrogating its responsibility to look after the welfare of those in federal custody is one of the most disgusting policy decisions made by our government.  It’s a human rights violation and it’s immoral. Also, it started long before Trump infested the White House, but he’s accelerated conversions of big box stores into prisons at an alarming rate.

In the meantime, politicians (Republican for the most part) have blocked prison and immigration reform or opposed the outlawing of this practice.  The reason?  Millions of dollars filling the pockets of jerk-offs like those named above.  Cuellar is an anomaly among Dems; he vehemently opposed president Obama’s efforts to reform the immigration system and is unpredictable in his public statements.  He’s certainly not helpful.  Culberson and Cornyn, however are blocking the door to ANY humane or just solution.

The proliferation of new Desert Sands Trump Tent Resorts and Trump Big Box Internationals have finally awoken Republicans in Congress.  Even Ted Cruz took a few minutes off from running for president in 3 years to wring his hands and declare he’s going to introduce legislation to fix a problem that was completely caused by Trump’s poor decision to take the advice of his in-house white supremacists.

In the meantime, the border crisis worsens.  Innocent lives are being permanently damaged and it’s going on before our very eyes even as I type these words.

If you’d like to tell these politicians what you think of them taking dirty private prisons for profit money, here are their phone numbers:

John Cornyn – 202-224-2934

John Culberson – 202-225-2571

Henry Cuellar – 202-225-1640