Letter: Some stand to profit from building detention centers

Letter: Some stand to profit from building detention centers

The Trump administration already has enough funding for 135,000 beds in its mass detention camps. As of mid-January 73,000 were being held in them as they are being processed. That’s a lot of empty beds. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security use private corporations like CoreCivic and GEO whose contracts need beds filled for guaranteed profits. To meet the quota, expanded categories are already emerging. Wil…