From prison operators and gear makers to software firms and foreign treasuries, the detention economy runs on one product: detained immigrants. Taxpayers fund the contracts, and families pay the rest.
America’s immigrant detention system has never held more people, and its operators have never earned more. In July 2026, ICE held more than 66,000 people on an average day, after...
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by Maurice O. Ndole
by Maurice O. Ndole
