What’s the point of the military if not to torment immigrants?

The government is shut down, but you’d never know it from how much money is spent to terrorize immigrants and—let’s be honest—anyone who supports immigrants.

As if President Donald Trump’s abusive secret police weren’t enough, the administration is now tapping the Navy to help build tent prisons for immigrant detainees.

This is being described as the Department of Homeland Security “funneling $10 billion through the Navy,” which is apparently how we do government spending now—just moving money around wherever it can most efficiently be used to attack immigrants. Now, if it’s for anything else like, say, feeding people, then it’s whoopsie, shutdown.

As soon as next month, the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security will be using the Naval Supply Systems Command to contract with priv