White people are also getting put in private for profit immigration detention facilities.
Mississippi Free Press – ICE Arrests Mississippi Father at His Citizenship Hearing, Threatening Deportation – by Nick Judin May 21, 2025 After Trump’s victory last November, stocks soared for the GEO Group and another private prison operator, CoreCivic. “The group that has been growing the most is immigrants with no criminal charges and no criminal conviction,” Kocher said. “The government’s narrative that they’re targeting criminals is not bulletproof. They’re picking up a lot of people who don’t have any criminal history at all.” (…) But while the Eriksen family suffers, the private prison industry profits. Simply staying in close contact with Kasper during his detention at the facility in Louisiana costs the family hundreds of dollars per week alone, Savannah says.
“Degrading, dehumanizing, horrendous:” Fabian Schmidt on 2 months in ICE detention GBH News May 14, 2025 The legal permanent resident, who has lived in New Hampshire since 2022, was stopped at Logan International Airport on March 7 after visiting family in Europe.
My letter to reps:
The criminal justice system and prisons and immigrant detentions shouldn’t be outsourced or run for profit for any reason.
Please feel free to copy or repurpose for your own letters to reps.
The New Republic – Malcolm Ferguson / May 19, 2025 Trump Was Lying—He Deported a Lot of Legal Immigrants to El Salvador A new report reveals that Trump sent dozens of legal immigrants to be imprisoned in El Salvador. “Cato published my review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison,” wrote David J. Bier, director of immigration studies at the libertarian Cato Institute. “We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.”