ICE Outsourcing: Your Tax Dollars Fund Private Detention Profits
The Intercept reports that ten private companies have already snagged over a million dollars each acting as 'bounty hunters' for ICE, tracking down and surveiling immigrants. This isn't just about immigration policy; it's about the ever-expanding privatization of state violence. While politicians on both sides lament a 'border crisis,' they quietly funnel taxpayer money into contracts enriching
corporations that treat human beings as commodities to be captured. This arrangement looks less like border security and more like a macabre jobs program for surveillance tech and rent-a-cops, turning vulnerable communities into profit centers. One might wonder if this public-private partnership is designed to 'solve' the crisis, or to perpetuate the conditions that ensure these companies keep
making bank.