“The Trump administration has justified cuts to public health, education and international aid programs in the name of ‘government efficiency.’ At the same time, it is passing billions of taxpayer dollars to private prison executives to expand an immigration incarceration system that is notorious for abuse, mismanagement and waste.”
Responding to the Trump administration’s plans to drastically expand ICE detention, our legal fellow Medha Raman and VP of U.S. Advocacy and Litigation Anthony Enriquez recently published a letter to the editor in the New York Times.
In their piece, Medha and Anthony reference the long history of abuse, mismanagement, and waste at immigration detention facilities across the country.
Read the full letter here.
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