Inside the ICE Detention Boom: Soaring Abuse Claims and Little Oversight
The Trump administration is aggressively expanding the U.S. immigration detention and deportation system with $45 billion in funding, aiming for one million deportations per year, despite widespread human rights abuses, preventable deaths, and systemic failures in oversight and due proces
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