ICE Outsources Work to Private Contractors

DHS/ICE is working on billions of dollars in procurement contracts to outsource much of their work to private contractors. They have secured contracts with agencies who will be serving as bounty hunters to hunt down immigrants using skip-trace methods, and they will be paid based on their performance. They already have over 60,000 people in detention, and they are using private prison operators like CoreCivic who will make money off every person they put in jail. There is also a plan for a huge call center in Nashville, TN (where CoreCivic is based) to track unaccompanied minors. Another contract is to hire private contractors to transport all of the immigrants between locations.

It is bad enough to have trigger-happy militarized agents in masks going around terrorizing our communities, but the introduction of all of the private contractors make it even more dangerous. They're also turning the immigration crackdown into a money-making machine, which is wrong on so many levels.