America Is Detaining Children for Profit, With Your Tax Dollars

America Is Detaining Children for Profit, With Your Tax Dollars

As we ramp up for Mother’s Day in the United States, children in this country are being locked up in immigration detention—not just as policy, but as part of a growing, for-profit system.  American tax dollars are subsidizing this extension of collective punishment to the youngest among us, including babies and toddlers, here at home. Making it possible is the $45 billion cash infusion U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) received from…