Vice President of U.S. Litigation Anthony Enriquez and Dale and James J. Pinto Fellow Danielle McClain‘s piece was featured in this week’s Washington Post.

The text reads:

Regarding the Sept. 22 news article “Bribery probe of border czar was shut down”:

The Trump administration would have you believe border czar Tom Homan didn’t do anything wrong when, according to The Post’s reporting, he was 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.

But this would be just the clumsiest example of alleged self-dealing we’ve seen underlying the massive expansion of immigration detention. For years, top leaders at Immigration and Customs Enforcement have arranged contracts with private prison companies before leaving government to work at those companies, profiting handsomely from the taxpayer dollars.

Recently, the Justice Department reinterpreted long-standing immigration laws to require the detention of millions more people, inflating demand for detention centers. And days after Congress approved a record-breaking $45 billion to expand its deportation and detention dragnet, private prison executives raised their compensation and bonuses.

The federal government is also axing sensible cost savings on immigration enforcement. This year, the Trump administration terminated a cheaper-than-detention program with a 100 percent success rate of guaranteeing appearance in immigration court through referrals to legal and social services.

The immigration detention system is a classic story of public grift. And the facts are right before our eyes, no matter how many bribery investigations are suppressed.

Read the full piece here.