Brianna Nofil

I think there's sort of a thread here that is like any of these things that the U.S.

government does, whether it's a law barring every single person from a country or whether it is sort of unprecedented energy into these raids and mass deportations in the Southwest.

Like none of this actually fundamentally cuts off people's access to migrant labor.

And none of this fundamentally completely stops people from migrating.

Part 3.

But one of the populations that is going to sort of prove to be particularly troubling for the immigration service is Cubans who have an interaction with the criminal justice system in the U.S., who are convicted of a crime.

So in theory, the U.S.

wants to deport these people back to Cuba, but Castro sort of hardline refuses to take them.

So what that means is that the US now has a population of people who have finished their criminal sentence, who are now being held administratively as migrant detainees, but for whom there is no path to deportation, right?

So it raises this really important and really thorny question of, can the US hold people indefinitely?

The Oakdale mayor launches this all-out effort to get this site for his community.

After the furniture factories left, the paper bag plant went out of business, and the lumber mill closed, this town was dying.

This sort of town sees itself as needing a sort of financial recovery.

silver bullet, and they say this immigration detention center is going to be it.

Oakdale is hosting all-night prayer vigils to pray that the immigration service puts the detention center in this community.

They are hosting these, like, Cajun cookouts that they're inviting immigration officials to.

And immigration officials basically cannot believe their luck, right?

They're like, this is not going to be as hard as we thought.

If we can pitch this as a financial solution.

The illegal alien problem is a problem that's here.