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@Crispius @AlisonCreekside "The 13th Amendment in their constitution actually permits slavery for incarcerated persons"

NO IT DOES NOT.

It specifies:

"except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted"

This explicitly excludes the entire class of people they want to apply it to: those who have not been convicted or even accused of any crime, who are nominally being incarcerated pending non-criminal deportation action.

Of course they will try to apply this unconstitutionally. Mis-stating what the constitution says only helps them do that, though.