How a Private Prison Company Profits from Biden’s Broken Immigration Pledge

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Newsweek and Capital & Main have co-published a story on immigrant detention that is worth a read.  As the Biden administration deals what has been characterized as a “crisis” along the U.S./Mexico border, detention is a popular immigration enforcement tool tool:

“President Joe Biden promised to end prolonged immigration detention and reinvest in alternatives that help immigrants navigate the legal process while living outside of government custody. These promises were part of Biden’s campaign platform and the reform bill he sent to Congress on his first day in the White House.

But six months in, Biden’s administration and his Democrat-led Congress are spending millions more taxpayer dollars to expand detention and surveillance of immigrants. A private prison company [GEO Group, according to the report]is profiting from both.”

KJ