Spotlight: How the government uses private companies to house immigration detainees
MSNBC·2025-06-10 04:29
While Donald Trump's deportation campaign is stretching detention facilities to their absolute limit. Last week, NPR reported that the government was holding more than 48,000 people in immigration detention. Now, ICE is only funded to hold 42,000.Today, NBC News confirmed there are more than 51,000 people in custody. And no surprise, our facilities are at max capacity. And here's what is worth noting and what I want to talk about tonight.Almost 90% of people who are being held by ICE are in facilities that ...