Deportation, Inc: Profiting from Misery, Shocking Nobody
The Intercept's piece on 'Deportation, Inc.' highlights how figures like Carlos Abrego Garcia benefit from the sprawling, privatized immigration detention and removal machine. It's a system that conveniently costs taxpayers billions, yet somehow never seems to 'secure' the border, only to enrich a select few. The public is told this is about national security; critics note it's primarily about
private equity's insatiable appetite for guaranteed government contracts. When the government effectively outsources its most coercive powers, the profit motive inevitably overrides human dignity. This isn't an accidental oversight, it's policy. The cyclical funding of private detention centers and deportation services creates a self-sustaining industry. While politicians posture about 'border
crises,' the gears of this industry grind on, turning human beings into billable hours. One might wonder if the 'crisis' is not the desperate people seeking refuge, but the system designed to exploit their vulnerability for unprecedented gains. How else do we explain the perpetual 'emergency' that never quite ends, yet always finds more funding?