Yes, it still exists as the “except as punishment for a crime” loophole in the 13th amendment. And when fascists are in power, they love to make any arbitrary thing a crime so they have a justification to imprison anybody.
Once they run out of farm workers due to having deported them all, expect Trump and his cronies to be super keen to staff those same farms using slave labor – for profit, of course – via just rounding up whoever else they don’t like on phony charges.
Yes, it still exists as the “except as punishment for a crime” loophole in the 13th amendment. And when fascists are in power, they love to make any arbitrary thing a crime so they have a justification to imprison anybody.
Once they run out of farm workers due to having deported them all, expect Trump and his cronies to be super keen to staff those same farms using slave labor – for profit, of course – via just rounding up whoever else they don’t like on phony charges.