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Financial Times
July 16, 2025

Inside America’s booming immigration detention industry
By Lucy Rodgers, Nassos Stylianou, Irene de la Torre Arenas, Jana Tauschinski, Dan Clark and Gaku Ito in London and Sam Learner in New York


It is largely run by the private sector. About 85 per cent of people in immigration custody are held in places run for profit, according to Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), an archive of government data and reports.


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