^^I remember years ago Obama tried to cut some of the goverment funding for detention centers. I think the objective was in effect it will lessen the numbers of undocumented that for a variety of reasons got picked-up and thereby needed to be detained while they await to plead their case to a judge.
That takes months.
But if I recall correctly the availability of this huge money for funding these privately owned detention centers is contingent on how many beds are being filled. If not enough beds are being filled, less funding available.
Before Bush, there were no surprise checkpoints in the interior of the country snagging unsuspecting undocumenteds who maybe traveling. Before Bush these checkpoints can only set-up within 25 miles(?) of the border.
At Greyhound bus stations when you buy tickets they don’t tell you if their buses would pass through a federal checkpoint. The bus driver only announces it when you’re already on the way. So if you’re an undocumented with your headphones on and missed it, you will get picked-up at the checkpoint and brought to the nearest detention center if beds are available.
The detention center would love everyone to stay for as long as possible. If you’re raking in Uncle Sam’s cash of 700K a day…..that’s 700K…a….day!
A lot of people who operate these private detention centers are making tons upon tons of easy moolah.
Few years ago when demand for beds was probably less than today, the best detention centers knew that to avoid attention, they have to spend money in preventive medical care. To avoid disease spreading and of course any death. Do that and the money supply will be practically limitless.
The US Congress is making sure of that, not really trying to have a long term vision on how to potentially fix the problem at its source as to why people cross over in the first place.
To win elections and get to power the brilliant reality TV show host and his voters are now making it worse demonizing immigrants and concentrating on ineffective border fixes alone.