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ICE Detention, Business model, non-citizens, citizens
What big gulags you have. Photo Credit: Ted Rall / WhoWhatWhy
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Full Occupancy

02/23/26

If ICE builds the beds, it’s gonna use the beds.

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Congress has handed $38 billion to ICE in order to build massive detention centers across the United States as processing facilities for illegal immigrants to be deported. When you crunch the numbers, however, it’s clear they don’t need all those beds for their supposed purpose. What’s the real reason they want them? Hint: It’s not to deport them — it’s to imprison you.

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  • Ted Rall is an American columnist, syndicated editorial cartoonist, and author. His most recent book is "The Stringer," a graphic novel in which journalism meets "Breaking Bad."

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