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The Washington Post: Issues with ICE

Border czar Tom Homan was recently caught on tape accepting $50,000 in cash in exchange for helping “businessmen” land contracts related to immigration enforcement. The businessmen were really undercover FBI agents. 

Responding to this scandal – and the Trump administration’s subsequent suppression of an investigation – RFKHR attorneys Anthony Enriquez and Danielle McClain called out widespread corruption in the immigration detention system. Writing in a Washington Post letter to the editor, they labeled the Homan news as  “the clumsiest example of self-dealing we’ve seen underlying the massive expansion of immigration detention.”


Read the full piece here.