ICE Discovers Profit Motive, Hires Private Prison Bounty Hunters
Mainstream news reports ICE is contracting with private prison giant GEO Group to track and detain immigrants. This arrangement raises questions about accountability, given GEO Group's long history of human rights abuses and mismanagement in detention facilities. It seems the 'border crisis' narrative conveniently overlooks the massive profits these corporations extract from the system. (The
Intercept) Perhaps ICE's stated mission to 'enforce immigration laws' has just been updated to 'maximize shareholder value.' One might wonder how many more layers of incentivized dehumanization the system can bear before someone calls it what it is: a privatized, for-profit system designed to keep beds full and pockets lined, all on the taxpayers' dime. The 'rehabilitation' industrial complex
morphs effortlessly into the 'detention' industrial complex. What's next, a 'Catch-and-Release for Cash' program?